@mupAus @saltesc That’s the issue: every continent has rednecks or whatever you call them who think it’s “fun” to get in a 4-wheel vehicle, burn up gasoline, spread fumes, tear up habitat, leave refuse and call themselves “outdoor folk”. Wheee-ha!
Stopping them requires re-education, legislation and perhaps barbed wire
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mupAus@aussie.zone 11 months agoNah, I’m good.
I don’t care if beaches are roads. My point is that beaches should not be roads.
I was over on Moreton Island recently and walking south of the resort. Didn’t see any of your claimed warning signage. Just utes and 4wds tearing the shit out of the beach from the water line up to where the trees start. A beautiful beach in a beautiful spot away from all the crowds but I’ve got to be watching my kids like a hawk to make sure some idiot doesn’t kill one of them and then try to blame me for daring to walk with my kids down to the sand dunes.
I don’t care if it’s legal, it shouldn’t be. Why does everything have to be turned into yet more space exclusively for vehicles. Especially pristine beaches.
bouriquet@mastodon.social 11 months ago
Salvo@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Most 4wders on K’Gari and other Sand-based highways in Australia are travelling between locations as part of a journey to another location.
While there are the dickheads out there that do tear up the beaches, they are subject to the same restrictions and laws as dickheads who drive illegally on bitumen on highways and in industrial estates.
It is tragic that anyone was injured an on a K’Gari beach. We don’t know the full details on what happened, it could be a child that was in an unsafe location, it could have been a driver in an inappropriate location, it could have just been a freak accident. I do hope that the result will be improved public awareness of which beaches are safe and legal to drive on, which beaches are suitable for swimming and which beaches are too dangerous for anyone.
saltesc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There are very few beaches you can go to where vehicles are also allowed. Your interests are not exclusively reign to all of them over other people’s interests. You literally have hundreds of other options, most of them better. Learn to accept other people and the things they enjoy and you need but share just a bit with them is all. if you can’t tolerate others, just don’t go there. They’re tolerating you and your kids without complaint.
The Australian coastline is not yours and not everyone is you.