I'm up here at the Elliott for a few days and there is a lot of buzz about a big planned development. REsidential, shops and.............
talk of dredging the river.
Just as well, as the sand intrusion is even worse than when I was here in March.
Got the skinny from a local last night.
The Liberal member has pledged 2 million if teh Coalition gets up, to dredge the river.
here's hoping.
Poss prob with dredging is where do they put the sand and its only going to be months and its back to how nature wants it.
and there all talk up in bundy when it comes to development, If they say 5 years its more like 25.
F##k it leave it alone I say!
Not sure how to respond to this angry, but it's taken a few decades to move the sand to where it is. Nature originally had a tree covered spit protecting a mangrove/mud zone, with no beach out the front at all, and it was not much fun.
If they put it back over at Coonar, then maybe not as many gum trees will fall into the water. The casuarinas are long gone.
The erosion there has eaten a hundred metres or more of beach in the last ten years or so.
The northern channel is drifting north, and will soon be trying to put the swimming hole back where the dunny block now stands.
I was up there in March, and the sand movement since then is quite significant.
It would be barely possible to get a small tinny in and out at low tide now, and I doubt a keel yacht would get in on the highest tide.
I agree that it may move back eventually, but it will take a decade, then they can dig it out again.
