General News
4 July, 2025
BARRY'S CORNER: Join the 21st century
Computers actually have a positive use in many creative ways. From designing buildings to mobile phones and so many uses too numerous to mention they play an integral and vital part in our every day life and sometimes we do not even know.
Micro chips that drive computers have been built so small they are hard to see.
A group called the Friends of Wyperfeld have just launched an app to explain the camping process, the vegetation, the bird life and some of the reptiles.
There are motels at Rainbow and Hopetoun, Murrayville and Patchewollock.
Every year the Friends meet at the Wonga campground and as they have for the last 49 years.
Members of the group are from across the Mallee, Wimmera, western Victoria and Melbourne.
The group has planted indigenous native pine, buloke and mallee to the extent these replacements are now growing strongly.
The app explains the life cycle of the Outlet creek flood system and how the creek would flow through the centre of the park.
At present there is not enough water to fill lake Hindmarsh, then lake Albacutya and on into the park. There is a population of Mallee Fowl that can be found in this heathland.
These are hard to find but quietly observing and patience can be rewarded.
This park has been a grazing settlement, a live stock through way, a nature reserve and a poaching hot spot, it is now protected as a national park.
There is an interesting history of Indigenous living in the region, followed by squatters, farmers, naturalists and photographers, walkers and cyclists.
Wyperfeld is known as a low tech kind of place with no electricity or telecommunications to the campground so to have a modern addition such as an app will go a long way towards explaining to researchers, students and visitors the wealth of things to do.
If you are not familiar with the mallee which can be confusing to walk into at first then the app will help with an outline of tracks suitable for walking, driving for a two wheel or four wheel vehicle.
Deep sand is not to be messed with and drivers can get into a lot of trouble through in experience or bad luck.
Understanding the area, finding some of the spectacular bird life makes a really enjoyable
park to put on your calendar.