The Winnit Club is a voluntary service organisation that has been going to Rottnest Island since 1931.^[1] Primarily the Winnits do work on the island under the direction of the Rottnest Island Authority that benefits all those who use the island for work and recreation.^[2] Club members raise funds and provide their expertise and labour for many of these requirements.^[3] The club specialises in the construction of access boardwalks and stairs.^[4]

Projects

Some of the activities club members have been involved with include:

• Raised the funds to build the island's first nursing post in 1960^[5] and paid the wages of the nurse Fay Sullivan^[6]
• The original ‘Quokka Shelter’ and West End board walk^[7]
• Installing emergency lighting at the airport^[8]
• Restoration of the Oliver Hill Gun Battery^[9]
• Installation of stairs at Bathurst Lighthouse, Salmon Bay, Fay's Bay and Narrow Neck^[10]
• Paving of the P Hut and train shed, construction of all the railway stations platforms and shelters^[11][12]
• Painting the seawall twice from end to end^[13]
• Maintaining the museum^[14]
• Beach access paths and all of the fencing from Villa Kitson to Bathurst Lighthouse^[15]
• Restoring the headstones, fencing and maintaining the cemetery^[16]
• Survey of the coastal risk signs and developing a database including the GPS location of each sign.^[17]
• Constructing the boardwalk at the West End^[18]
• Constructing the stairs from Pinky's Beach to the Bathurst lighthouse^[19]
• The steps and fencing at Geordie Bay^[20]
• Installation of five environmentally friendly toilets costing $650,000 at Parker point^[21][22][23]
• $141,000 grant from Coastwest to construct the walkway and tiered stairs at Henrietta Rocks (in conjunction with the Rottnest Society and the Rottnest Foundation)^{[24][25][26][27]}

References

Further reading

• Sten, Tom (1971), The Winnit story, retrieved 2014-02-17.

• Alannah MacTiernan (7 August 2004). "Western Australia's coast protected and rehabilitated under grants scheme". Department of the Premier and Cabinet. Archived from the original on 5 September 2008. Retrieved 2014-02-17. This project will protect the environmental and social values of a...coastal feature through the formalisation of public access and remodelling/ rehabilitation of a severe dune blowout.

• Alannah MacTiernan (23 June 2008). "Coastwest grants help revegetate, rehabilitate WA beaches". Government of Westerna Australia. Department of the Premier and Cabinet. Government Media Office. Archived from the original on 5 September 2008. Retrieved 2014-02-17. Replacement of stairs at Rocky Bay. ...Winnit Club...will replace the...stairway to Rocky Bay, at Narrow neck on Rottnest Island...

• "News and notes. Ashes Ceremony at Rottnest". The West Australian. Perth: National Library of Australia. 13 December 1954. p. 2. Retrieved 2014-02-17. ...the well-known Winnit Club, which he helped to found.

• "Australian Web Archive. PS News archive. Rottnest boardwalk off drawing board". PS News Network. Western Australian Edition. 21 February 2012. Archived from the original on 16 July 2013. Retrieved 2014-02-16. ...and the Winnits volunteers who assisted in building the structure.

External links

• Winnit Club
• Rottnest Island Authority