Hi,
I know it's been discussed before but I just don't get it. Around this area there have been many changes over the past few years due to abuses on
camping areas. People overstaying, cutting down green trees for fire wood, leaving rubbish, dumping their old oil in
camping areas, pulling a 36 foot van along a
sand dune. I kid you not with the last one, took two cars together, destroyed the area.
Every trip we go on we find areas closed or rubbished to a point that no one would stay there, the cape, gulf, northern east cost of Qld. A few friends are travelling Aus over 12 mths and both sets have the same complaints about NT and WA, so far. In WA I'm told that many beaches are in the process of being closed to all traffic as people are driveing over
turtle nest, bird nests, plundering the fishing stocks to fill the freezers, collecting shells in 10litre buckets even live and killing them on the fire etc, etc, etc. One particular area of
camping beside a
well known reef is about to have major changes with possible closure, they even said they were told that all shell collecting in WA will be banned due to these actions. These same people have not had to wet a line or take a boat, each time they move there's groups of the long term travellers that offer fish. Great you might think. They are offering it as they can't fit anything else in the freezers, why not catch and release?? That's a waste of time. How about if you get something bigger and better you dump the frozen fish and restock with the better stuf, just keep upgrading. And this isn't a one off, it's been happening to them very often. What a bunch of tossers.
Probably cause a stir but, they have found that it's basicly the same era of people doing the damage that we find in our area. Those who should be much wiser due to age and experience so we are told, the caravan brigade. Only a couple of weeks ago we caught a group of them knocking off the
toilet rolls in a
rest stop while draining the only
tank of
water into their vans, the next day they'd cut down a green "She Oak" for the fire, that is after dragging their large van over a vegetated section of sand. One of them then wanted me to then tow them out, a bogged 4 tonned camper all the time complaining that there should be cleaner dunnies, town
water and why's the fishing so bad????
Not sure what your finding but it seems to be those that are after the feebies that couldn't care less and it's not just a few of them there are swarms heading north each year to keep out of the cold. You know, .... the place to be and ...... on the move.
Well for my age group, tourism of this type sucks, areas are being closed that we will never see in our own state and it's because of our wiser, more learned generation and states. What goes they can't do it in their states so it's open slather in Qld, NT and WA.
AAaah
well sure I've ruffled some feathers but thems the breaks, I've told it how it is in our areas and I'm sure in most
places. Get this, a car
park in our area has been closed (to a NP walk) as overnighters won't stop dropping their
toilet tanks in the car
park. I've seen it, disgusting mess and been going on for years. I know, I know, it's ...... fault or ...... fault, no sewerage dumping points 2 feet from our van, or no timber supplied at our free spot, or or or or........
One outback town I know has banned all
free camping beside a
well known river. Why, again dumping of black
water straight on the ground at the town's
water supply. To damn lazy and cheap to drive into town to dump it.
Well I say Ass H.... Our generation is the one that will suffer
AAAaaahhhhh that's better.