This paper shares practices for activating the vital role of Place in learning in early childhood. Following Van Dooran and Rose (2016), I share ethographic practices from the Out and About with Kulin seasons pedagogical inquiry on Boonwurrung/Bunurong Country in Melbourne, Australia. Ethographic practices focus firstly on more-than-human ways of life, and then over time draw humans into the story. Ethographic practices generate ways of noticing Places differently, where more-than-human lifeways are foregrounded. In the Australian context, this includes respectfully foregrounding First Nations worldviews, taking seriously the response-abilities (Haraway, 2016) and accountabilities of engaging with ongoing colonial inheritances and activating environmental justice. I share multispecies ethographic stories to activate strong connections with my local Place, and practices for working towards environmental justice. Ethographic practices are distinctly different to ethnographic methods as they “tend to start with, to be provoked by, other-than-human ways of life, the openness of these accounts inevitably draws humans into the frame” (Van Dooran & Rose, 2016, p. 86). This approach generates noticing practices that are not foregrounded with the human perspective, rather more-than-human communities are the focus of provocations. Lively ethographic storytelling is an approach that is grounded in paying attention to many lives and the ways in which they are always entangled. Van Dooren and Rose (2016) explain ethography as an approach grounded in an attentiveness to the evolving ways of life. Ethographies are not written as an objective, scientific account, rather ethographies are "storytelling as ethical practice” and are created through the “dynamic act of storying” (2016, p. 93). This storytelling process is speculative, partial, experimental and includes being present in ordinary moments, to learn with and from the world. Ethographies are powerful ways to generate strong ongoing connections with our local Places and work towards ongoing practices for environmental justice.