Sunday, May 24, 2015 at 07:02
The Problem is, the sleepers are dissappearing at an alarming rate. There are now no sleepers between
Marree and Alberrie Creek. The rate of sleepers going has been at a positive exponential rate over last two decades or so.
I first started to travel and
camp (work related) along the track between
Marree snd
Oodnadatta in the last years of the railway line operating.
Recreation traveller's were not plentiful. When we did drive through dusk and into the night, we'd observe smallish fires, no big bonfires.
Now as a recreational traveler on the
Oodnadatta track, I'd like to pick a
campsite based on there being fuel to
cook a meal with. Problem, nothing between
Marree and Alberrie Creek.
Still do the occasional drive through dusk, you can pick where people are camping in advance of seeing them from the big
orange glow as the try and heat 100km2 of air space around them. What are they doing, spit roasting a bloody camel? Nup through greed, ignorance, perhaps oneupmanship, or the 'look at me' wow factor of a big bonfire. No respect for travelers who will come after them. Just burn everything in site for the sake of it.
I was at
Dalhousie Springs in the year before wood fires being banned in Witjiri National Park. A
campsite across the track had a fire going, we certainly weren't camping in their pockets, but could feel the radiant heat from their fire. And now we wonder why a Solution is now imposed on us by the authorities to control a Problem becsuse of peoples oneupmanship attitudes that just don't care or can self regulate their activities.
I can
cook a two course meal including a roast in the
camp oven with a little over one sleeper. About a third of a sleeper in the morning to boil the billy and
cook breakfast.
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