four corners sea change

i think that if u get hold of the abc, they will sell u a copy at nominal cost

cheers

Turbo

Sorry , I saw it , but I did not tape it . I thought it was good balanced coverage of the growing problem of coastal land management .

I am sure that the people that use those areas now , would be upset about losing access , but their grandchildren will thank the authorities for saving it for them .

I am sure I am going to cop some flak for saying this .

Willie .

A very interesting program. It was repeated here late last night, it may be repeated at different times in other states. Check the TV program. Having not been to WA yet, i can sympathise with the campers but can also see the need for management (as long as it's not a touristy place). I want to see it unspoilt but still reasonably accessible when i go there next year.

Barnesy

If you haven't already done so, take a peek here
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Thanks fo r that site link- just another reason why it's such a good site.

Hi Turbo,
Where are you? Let me know you email address and we can arrange something.

Cheers Frank.

ABC2 usually does re-runs a few days after ABC1.

The following exchange was probably the most telling and there's a ring of truth in it :

"The view from on high does see it differently. The government points out that more people, more vehicles, more tracks means not just more erosion.

JENNIE CARY, WA DEPT OF CONSERVATION: We have had a dysentery outbreak in the southern end of this coastal strip in the past, and it is an issue that needs to be addressed.

ALANNAH MCTIERNAN, WA PLANNING MINISTER: Just part of the problem that everyone thinks it's not them, it's everyone else, where in reality it's not the individual, any individual that's the problem, it's just really the numbers, the sheer numbers of people.

CHRIS MASTERS: On either side, the problem is the same - how to manage numbers, and who to keep out. Even the inexpensive camps can become exclusive to those in the know. "

Thanks for all the replys,av a good week end.Cheers Dave.

On ABC talkback radio the plight of the WA Tourism industry was being disscussed. The numbers are dropping alarmingly from both overseas and the domestic markets.

I have a view that many won't like but it's my opnion anyway. For the record I often work with overseas and interstate guests showing them around the state so I get to hear an outsiders point of view. Promoting WA is part of my job, but hopefully nobody here actually knows who I am so I can hide behind my forum name and not bite the hand that feeds me. I do feel very strongly about this however, so that's why I'm writing it.

The one thing WA HAD going for it was a sense of adventure. Big open spaces, deserts, wild coastlines etc. It is now simply grossly overmanaged and boring. I'm sick to the back teeth of 'eco' this and 'ecology' that. 'Eco' is simply another word for 'you can't do anything interesting here whatsoever'. You can't camp, 4x4, fish, shoot, light campfires, walk off path ways.......nothing. It is DULL. No worse, it's almost Orwellian in the 'big brother' vibe here now.

You drive for 9 hours and when you eventually get there you pay $5 to walk through an 'eco discovery centre' to hear some interminable hand wringing crap waffled on by a first year graduate about environmental and indigenous concerns with a line of other folks and then afterwards pay way too much for some crappy third rate accomodation. I can feel the disapointment from overseas visitors when they find out WA is not a wild place full of adventure, it the most regulated and nauseatingly overgoverned PC stronghold they can imagine. Sad but true.

Yeah yeah yeah I know it's all about the blah blah blah......Right / wrong who cares. It's simply too 'safe' now. I'm not advocating environmental vandalism, but people do need to do SOMETHING. Even remote roads are now labelled as some cheesy renamed tourist route. When the tourist bureau has pamphlets on the brothels and illegal gambling dens you know a town has sold it's soul to tourism.

It's just so............contrived and twee.

'Eco discovery environmental heritage trail'.......they can stick it up their collective shiny arses. Give me good trip to a privately run station anyday.

Were's my time machine? I need it badly.