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Embark on exciting eco-adventures throughout the Port Macquarie-Hastings region with the Little Legends Passport Adventure Series – bringing our much-loved activity booklet to life! Join Jenna and a group of local Little Legends as they meet Knowledge Wizards (Council’s Subject Matter Experts) to explore topics like recycling, coastal science, and water conservation, and become eco-warriors for their community. Get ready to be inspired and join the quest to protect our local environment in this fun educational series!

Did you know that the average Aussie home makes enough rubbish every year to fill a 3 bedroom house? That’s the same size as two fully grown hippo’s!

In our first Little Legends Passport Adventure, our Little Legends learn how to use the Waste Info App A-Z waste guide to sort rubbish into red and yellow bins. They then head to Kew Waste Transfer Station to meet up with Knowledge Wizard, Sean (Acting Waste Manager, Port Macquarie-Hastings Council), to learn what to do with tricky waste items. . Let’s head over and meet today’s Little Legends, ready and excited to take on Adventure One – Waste Warrior”. 

We all know rubbish belongs in the bins not the ground, but how much do you know about what really happens when litter makes its way down our drains? Today, we’re heading out with our Little Legends, who’ll transform into Litter Legends to clean up one of our favourite local playgrounds, and meet up today’s Knowledge Wizard, Mark, to learn what happens when rubbish falls down into our drains.

This adventure calls on our Little Legends to become citizen scientists, learning to use the CoastSnap app, to help scientist and our Council monitor and take care of our coastline. The amount of sand on our beaches is always changing. Big waves and wind can wash the sand out to sea. Scientists collect data about our beaches to help spot any changes over time and understand how we can best look after our coastline. In this episode, our Little Legends head out with our Adventure Guide, Jenna, to the beach in Lake Cathie. They’ll meet up with our Natural Resources Manager knowledge wizard, Ben Foster, to learn how we can all join in and become citizen scientists, helping to collect valuable data which will be used to plan and protect our coastlines! This video is part of our Little Legends Passport Adventure Series, bringing our educative activity book, Little Legends Passport, to life to help educate inspire and empower young members of our community to become eco-warriors for our Community. A copy of the Passport can be downloaded via our Kids Education Hub, ConnectEd Kids

We all love our furry friend the koala, and we are so lucky to have them living in our region. But did you know another of our furry friends, the flying-fox, plays a VERY important role in spreading seeds that help keep our bush growing for our koala and other wildlife to live. In this adventure, we head out to Kooloonbung Creek where the flying foxes have set up camp, and chat with our knowledge wizard, Byron, to learn all about these amazing furry friends.

Getting out and about in nature is so much fun and it’s also a great way to keep active and reduce our use of cars and pollution. In this episode, we head out with our Little Legends to play ‘nature spotto ‘and take a walk along some of our local pathways to enjoy our beautiful environment. We’ll meet up with our knowledge expert, Matt, who’ll talk to us about why it’s important to appreciate what we spot in nature, but leave it as we find it, and why to stick to pathways already made and not go making our own. Let’s go spotto!

In this adventure, we’re talking about something we all need to survive, in fact every living thing does, and even though it may seem like it’s everywhere, it’s something we actually don’t have a lot of to spare. Any guesses? That’s right – we’re talking water! And learning how and why to be Water Wise. I’m off to meet our Little Legends as they explore one of our main water storage facilities – Cowarra Off Creek Storage Dam. Let’s go!