Fleurieu Living Magazine

Competitive planting

‘We decided we couldn’t live here on this property with a weed patch down the bottom there,’ says Geoff. So began fifteen years of work to restore this small segment of creek.’

eoff says it all started when his now partner Tess Sapia boarded a yacht in the Galapagos Islands in 2004. An environmental scientist from California, Tess hopped aboard the ‘Sorcerer II’ (owned by Dr Craig Venter who played a major role in sequencing the human genome) on the Pacific leg of its journey before disembarking in

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