Following on from Mick_Marsh's thread and Sleepy's final comments here: http://www.aulro.com/afvb/general-ch...ml#post1924501
I have limited experience of the "true bush" so far (though intend to change that), but have a real issue with thoughtless, careless or downright destructive people and their behaviour in this beautiful country.
I remember hearing a saying about how we should travel - "leave only footprints, take only photographs", which is sadly not a concept even close to how some people think. "Let everyone know that you've been there" seems to be the order of the day.
For example, where I live is somewhat rural, and my property backs onto a large number of hectares of nature reserve. When we moved in a couple of years ago, we set about selectively clearing some of the wilder parts of our land (we have a few acres) so that we could get to the fences.
In doing so, we found that some of the previous owners considered that "nature reserve" means "somewhere to chuck your rubbish". 13 tyres, old rusty car parts, used oil filters, a couple of broken bikes, plastic bits and other assorted bits we paid to have taken away. Along with a blown truck tyre that someone chucked over our front fence one day
So if people can't even be bothered about their own locality, what chance does a once pristine bush stand?
Rant on guys.
AT REST
It was a pleasure to travel through some really remote parts of WA earlier this year - if it wasn't an area frequented by backpackers and winnebago types it really was clean and non-vandalised.
On the other hand we learned fairly quickly to avoid areas adjacent to main travel routes where the above were inclined to pull up or overnight.
It seems that since they don't intend to pass this way again they feel that they can leave their garbage & other mess.
Swaggie
One man's bush is another man's treasure.
At times.
I looked at a house on sixty acres. Thinking of buying. About ten acres was under grapes. The rest was blackberry infested forest.
I went for a stroll through the forest an stumbled (stumbled is the correct word, lots of blackberry) across a bren gun carrier.
Were they preparing for the zombie apocalypse?Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh
Seriously, 10 acres of grapes doesn't sound half bad. All round your place in 5 years time then for some vino collapso?
ChatterBox
Exactly. I don't know what it is, but when your average bozo comes up here their stupidity is let off the lead to run around as much as possible. It must be the heady freedom of the wide open spaces.
At any given point in time, somewhere in the world someone is working on a Land-Rover.
TopicToaster
Unfortunately it seems to be the norm these days. If it's off the beaten track it must be the best place to dump your rubbish.
Numpty
Thomas - 1955 Series 1 107" Truck Cab
Leon - 1957 Series 1 88" Soft Top
Lewis - 1963 Series 11A ex Mil Gunbuggy
Teddy5 - 2001 Ex Telstra Big Cab Td5
Betsy - 1963 Series 11A ex Mil GS
REMLR No 143
AT REST
Across the Nullabor unfortunately, the rubbish (& associated filth) is often left on, or adjacent to, the beaten trackUnfortunately it seems to be the norm these days. If it's off the beaten track it must be the best place to dump your rubbish.
Apparently very few carry a shovel, not that you can dig very deeply there anyway....
Wizard
Around this region, it tends to be the locals that leave rubbish around, not the visitors
Regardless of who it is, people should know better. It won't hurt to leave your cup/can/bottle in the holder for another hour until you pull up at or near a bin.
In some cases it's even less than that. Frequently we've had people dumping Maccas wrappers by the side of the road near our house, when our road is a residential, no through road. So they are at most a couple of Kms from home, and their own wheelie bin, and yet they choose to chuck it out the window........It won't hurt to leave your cup/can/bottle in the holder for another hour until you pull up at or near a bin.
Makes me mad.
ForumSage
Let's look at it from a glass half full point of view. If every aulro member took 1kg of someone else's rubbish home when we "go bush" that would be many tonnes of rubbish ( sorry I forgot how members we have 8000?).
Posting Permissions
| Search AULRO.com ONLY! |
Search All the Web! |
|---|
|
|
|
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks