The Irwins application to close down Bertiehaugh Rd has been REJECTED

Seems like it was quite a controversy up there. Hope all users now behave themselves and look after the road and the area.
Wonder who has official responsibility for the road ........ local shire I presume.

Cheers
Jim

So what is the background to this - most on the forum would not have heard this - just posting something like this without the context is meaningless.

Thanks Dick, i had heard of their wanting to close off access through "their property access rd"

I received the same email letter yesterday.

I think it a triumph for profit driven 'mob rule' and am disappointed at the outcome.

I am biased of course, having established friendships with rangers on the Irwin Reserve & with the pastoralists who until very recently were at Bertiehaugh Station where they had been for many years. In fact they bulldozed the original track.

Had I not had this connection & could only see the track from a 4wd visitors perspective I'd probably feel quite positive about the outcome.

The process followed by local Weipa buggy owners & their commercial supporters has in my view been very poor. Treating the track as though it were open & safe & encouraging, via social media, unwitting tourists & sycophantic rebels to use it in order to force it open has been quite inappropriate over the past couple of years.

But the decision is now made. The ecological consequences will be ignored in favour of profit & fun. Give it a year or two & it will be trashed like the OTT.

I comment thus, to have my say here, but I won't be re-hashing old argument already had elsewhere on this forum should anyone 'invite' me to do so.

Good news - I guess, the only issue I see is where, like a number of other places, you start getting the yobbos tearing through there to the detriment of the local wildlife.

Interesting old Bob has hit the media about people tackling crocs such as Social Media Influencers, don't get me wrong I think at some stage they will come a cropper, but then isn't that how Steve (RIP) made his mark and finally his demise?

cheers