G'day Kaos
My posts have got some of you shackies a bit rattled eh? Yeah I go camping, and when I do I take everything other than my p1ss and sh1t back out with me if I think the area can handle a bit of human waste, if not I take that too. I've only ever camped in sandy places near the beach in the last 20 years, because thats what I like, if the area was designated as a conservation zone that allows camping then I would take everything out with me or I'd follow whatever the rules or guidelines were.
But this thread is not about me, it is about you and the shackies, and the damage being done to the environment up there. You would have to blind and one eyed not to be able to see that, and the fact that there is a lot of damage being done up there. Maybe not by you, but you sound like the exception, from what I saw of the places myself.
If you've worked out a deal where you have been paying a lease fee, great, but I'll bet a lot of shacks pay no lease, and those owners are the ones that are not acting responsibly and who are going up there getting fueled on whatever and just trashing the place. To me it looked like the usual 80/20 rule, rules. So 80% of the people that go there are trashing the place in some way, and the other 20% look after it, you might argue its the other way around but the evidence and even the posts here seem to disagree.
Overall though the place is getting trashed worse and worse, anarchy rules up there. Are you going to approach a bunch of fueled up tools who are smashing glass, and leaving piles of buried trash, even the rangers can't stop these idiots? Same over here at Stockton, however the cops are coming out into the dunes in bigger numbers now and they are throwing the book at anyone who is acting badly, it is having a positive impact on hooning but the casual weekend campers still bury piles of cr*p and leave lots of glass and rubbish to be uncovered in a storm years later.
The places like this that we all really enjoy, need management, so get involved like I am and don't target me just because you think I'm saying something you don't like.
I'm as entitled as you to make a post about my experiences and opinions, I don't like the shacks at Greys, Wedge or Stockton beach. I think they harbour and encourage an anarchy type behaviour, which is actually very selfish and self centered, at the end of the day they are junk, when people get too old or find another interest they leave them, and they become just more trash. Management does not mean they all have to be removed, but it will introduce some badly needed controls and standards.
Some of the wealthiest families in this country started out as squatters, its just a term used to describe how the shacks came into existence, because its a fact that when people first built them thats exactly what they were doing. The fact that squatters in the past and even now eventually get legitimate land rights, hmmm thats another can of worms that the traditional hardly ever see a benefit from, isn't it?
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