If you want to know anything about the Australian bass you’d do well to ask young Jack Batty and Zane Kilpatrick.“Bass start spawning at six years of age and they’re fully grown at about 25 years,” Swifts Creek year seven student, Jack Batty, said.“They can produce 500,000 eggs a year, and their average life span is about 40 years but they can live up to 45.“They also spawn in the saltwater...
Following the significant weather event experienced across the state last Thursday, a band of lightning ignited a substantial number of fires across East Gippsland.The lightning moved slowly across the region into Far East Gippsland overnight into Friday providing fire fighters with challenging conditions.Gippsland regional controller, Ben Rankin, said although the weather is cooler and the wind...