Vandals

That is upsetting, keep your attitude Justin and have a "chat" when you see a tosser. They read the mags and want to explore the out back then trash it, mongrels.

Justin,
good to see you enjoy the bush as it should be but nothing has changed since I was a boy.

My memory services me well in this case. Bush tracks..... were how many bottles, stubbies and tinnies to the mile. Signs you couldn't read because they were shot to hell. 44 gallon drum Letter box shot up and the bread would be full of shotgun pellets. Average of 5 dead sheep a week on the road frontage due to shooters.

We are what we are and nothing has changed since my youth.

That doesn't excuse the grubs. I am afraid it is just reality. What really makes me boil is when old sites are vandalised. When I see the tree of knowledge as it is today. I could scream. I haven't seen it since it was poisoned and when I did I just shook my head and walked away.

We can only try and lead by example,
RA.

When we crossed the Simpson mid August we pulled into an isolated clay pan to camp.

We found beer bottles, tin cans, a 20lt plastic can and other sorted rubbish. I could not believe people would do this.Well lets at least say I was not expecting it.

We collected all the junk in a large plastic bag and took it with us and disposed of it at Birdsville.

I dont believe I am expecting too much from our fellow travelers to take your rubbish with you.

Wayne B

You've travelled it just after the Birdsville Races.
Maybe they still think you have to toss the cans on the ground and a front-end loader will come by to clean up!

Hi Justin,
Chicka & I were equally disgusted by the amount of toilet paper along the river banks

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One of the more ever increasing rubbish concerns is the white daisies..the prolific roadside toilet paper....and there's plenty of 4wd'ers who are guilty of it..or their partners.

People seem unable to be able to clean up after a required outback roadside, creekside wee or dump.

You need a shovel, yep, a damn shovel, and how many out there travelling don't have one. Get off the side of the road and dig a decent hole, have a lighter or box of matches..yep, a match or a lighter.

Do your business in the hole, not over the countryside, or on the ground, in a water way or near one, or beside your car/4wd on the roadside. Yep, put it, aim it in the hole.

Then clean yourself up and put the rubish in the hole..or a zip tight plastic bag...are the women listening, even for a number 1, don't just chuck the tissues on the ground. If you put it in a zip lock type bag, take it with you for disposal properly, later.

If you have put the paper waste in the hole, then safely light it with your matches or lighter, you brought them along..right..watch it burn completely, then refill and tamper down the replaced soil. Pick up any remaining waste, paper, rolls etc and take them with you.

The reason you burn the waste paper is so that it is not uncovered, retrieved by animals, and helps remove vermin attracting odour in the area.

Happy and clean dumping, travellers.

Its not just in the bush, I was walking my dog along a beach path last thing the other night (and yes I do pick up after it), which ends in a beachside car park.

Looking across the empty carpark I saw what I thought was two carrier bags, when I walked over it was fairly obvious that a couple of cars had been there and just opened the doors and placed their mcdonalds bags full of rubbidh on the ground and driven off!

If left the sea breeze would have taken it into the ajacent bush. The ridiculous thing was there is a bin not 3 metres away!

I blame it on the parents today they dont give bleep so the kids grow up thinking the same.

I may be an old fart but we were taught to place rubbish in a bin or take it home.

Would love to come across these mongrels, in the act, and teach them the meaning of the word, RESPECT !

I know it sometimes annoys my other half but I always make a point of leaving my campsite cleaner than it was when I arrived. Even the small items give me the irrits. It never ceases to amaze me how many people must cut their cable ties and leave them where they fall and simply "twist and drop" when opening a beer. One place we stopped between St George & Cunnamulla was so bad we found it difficult to find a place to walk without stepping on rubbish as well as that which should always be buried!