Planning & Environment

Celebrating the trees

7/09/2011 Office of Road Safety

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Looking for something different to do this weekend? Why not spend a relaxed day with your partner, family or friends at the Kings Park Festival?

The United Nation’s declared this to be the International Year of the Forest, so it’s quite fitting this year’s theme for the 48^th Kings Park Festival is ‘Trees for Life’.

The festival’s month long program has a range of entertainment, activities, and workshops for people of all ages including interactive art and gardening workshops, to Santos Live Sundays, which will feature free live music and children’s entertainment every Sunday throughout September.

Why not make a day of it and take a walk around the park, pack a picnic and enjoy the view of the city skyline? There are plenty of things to do in Kings Park to help you slow down, relax and enjoy the ride with family and friends.

Make sure you take the time to admire the park’s many spectacular trees from the giant Kimberley boab Gija Jumulu, to the rows of lemon-scented gum trees along Fraser Avenue.

Environment Minister Bill Marmion says Kings Park has so many magnificent trees, many of which have been important to the Nyoongar people for thousands of years.

“A highlight of this year’s festival is the new Boodja Gnarning Walk trail, which translates to living and eating off the land,” he says. “This new self-guided walk informs visitors as to how the traditional Nyoongar people used native plants and trees for food, shelter, tools and medicinal purposes.”

For more details about the festival and a full program guide please visit http://www.kingsparkfestival.com.au