Used Poo Tickets - Cape York Trip

I agree I went fishing with a mate at 4 mile hole K N Park 3 weeks ago and the land mines were atrocious.

Steve.

Why bury the paper? Stick it in your bin. If you must stick it in a loctight bag first. Some critter will just dig it up. No Joke the Cape looks like a tip after a few months of visitors. There are miles of toilet paper all over the place, tin cans and bottles everywhere. We usually end up with two or three extra bags of rubbish that we have picked up on the way because I refuse to camp in the middle of a rubbish dump.

It is enough to make you dispair really.

Steve

a very politically correct post Lochmonster and timely.

Such tickets can be found from one coast to the other unfortunately. a match would have provided a simpler means of disposal and much more friendly.

And there are still too many folks who don't properly bury their stuff... dingoes can dig it up if it is not properly covered, and they do.

Cheers
Andrew who hates landing near other folks do do.

Here in WA its not much better, camped at Winderabandi (Ningaloo Station) on the weekend and I noticed some people poo in the middle of some of the different campsites here, dont even bury it or make a poor attempt to, even though you are required to bring a porta potti, I live locally here and rarely camp during the tourist season and can see why. Some of the camp sites you would rate as Turd World.

Cheers
Mark

I gotta agree. Nothing annoys me more. Ours ends up on the fire. There are numerous camp sites that we don't go to now as over time they have become infested with poo tickets. I don't understand how it can be so hard to work out - I actually recall my mother explaining to me as a 5 year old on the first 'Big Trip' why it had to be done after pointing out poo tickets that were floating around the outskirts of camp (and this was 25 years ago). Laziness.

Agreed and maybe the same lot will come to terms with the fact that bottles and cans don't burn in the camp fire either.

Walked the length of Tunnel Creek a couple of years ago only to discover, at the far end, through the opening, a fine collection of tickets, and a nice pile of disposable nappies. Welcome to the wilderness.

And can all you offending fishermen/ (people) please carry your beer cans ,plastic bait bags and the like back off the beach and river banks. Again what laziness to leave it for someone else to clean up. Wouldnt be Exploreoz friendly persons of course.!!!

Great thread!

Even along the Anne Beadell Hwy there are hundreds of them - mainly (I think) pee ones rather than poo ones. At every camping spot.

We found ourselves running around with a gas lighter - the ones about 20cm long - setting them alight. And, of course, making sure the spot fires didn't get going.

Most poo-ers do dig, but it's obvious that many (most?) pee-ers don't. That's fine, as long as they take their tickets (if any) away with them.

There were 4 of us on our most recent trip, and one had the job every night of digging a small latrine which we all used. The spade and the gas-lighter were left near the hole. Each user burned their paper, and covered their doings with just enough dirt. The last user next morning filled in the hole and brought the spade and lighter back to camp.

I think this should be brought to the attention of Mal and Little Johnny.

They would legislate that crapping is forbidden whilst travelling, and then there wouldn't be a problem.

Although I think we should be grateful for the paper piles - without them, we would not be alerted to the less visible nasties that make such a mess of thong clad feet.........