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Ulysses Walking Track - a better Way

8/10/2015

 
19/11/15
So the council want to bulldoze one of our last remaining natural areas at the beach just because there is no legislation to say we cant and because that is what they want to do. They have ignored the advice of people who understand natural resource management and despite a lot of community interest in this project have forged ahead with a predetermined plan while giving an expectation there would be public consultation.

'The bobcat has already started developing the approach to the bridge crossing at one of the last remaining tranquil nature reserves along Mission Beach.
All we were asking was consideration of an alternative route. If you care about how decisions are made that impact on our natural environment.

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8/10/15
There are plans for the Ulysses Walk, which mainly follows the beach just behind the dune at Mission Beach, to be linked at one of the small remaining habitat corridors connecting rare and endangered  rainforests.  Three options have been suggested.

The Cassowary Coast Regional Council has chosen the highest impact , most expensive option without consideration of the feedback from several community groups including the community environment group.

The option chosen will cross the creek at the widest most erosion prone location, dissecting one of the last remaining small natural habitat corridors.  If this option goes ahead it will introduce a high level of  'traffic' including dogs  to a currently  'quiet' wilderness  area where natural processes continue relatively  uninterrupted.

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The community consultation will only present one option not the original three, one of which became obsolete with the shelving of plans for a $6m upgrade to the Visitor Centre.

Currently the public park area alongside the creek is being maintained as private by campers, intimidating  public use and encroaching beyond site boundaries into the wilderness area where  kitchen and other effluent flows directly into the creek and weeds are allowed to proliferate.

This video offers an alternative route realigning camping sites  a couple of metres away from the creek bank where the Ulysses Walk continues with a  choice of a short section on the beach or following along the creek through a parkland and past the visitor centre.
 
An opportunity for a rehabilitation project and to inform visitors and  locals of the high environmental value of a special little habitat corridor that is still visited by cassowaries.

An alternative way -A BETTER WAY
Ian Locke
8/10/2015 09:01:31 pm

Let the local Mission beach people deside what they want ! Not the CCRC

jan watson
17/11/2015 06:41:19 pm

I like the alternative route that does not cross the creek and its vulnerable point. Keep the last remaining small tract of natural forest, its easy to see in without trampling through it

Bec & Jason link
18/11/2015 09:31:05 am

Well done Liz once again for taking the time and making the effort to point out a sensible ecological and money saving alternative!

Susan Sedgman
19/11/2015 02:45:23 am

Please listen to the locals and keep Mission Beach unique with natural areas left for our iconic cassowary and other wildlife.

Robyn Sweeney
19/11/2015 08:30:52 am

CCRC should be listening to those locals who have devoted time and knowledge to assisting Mission Beach to become what it is today. It is recognised by many from all over the world as being a lovely low key holiday spot with a focus on its natural environment. It should not be treated like an amusement park - people can go to Billabong Sanctuary if they want that. The shorter less invasive route is the obvious solution and the saved money can be spent on rehabilitation.

Judi Van Dycke
19/11/2015 08:40:50 am

Take the alternate route as required by the locals that care!

Suzie Smith
19/11/2015 03:10:49 pm

We live in a democracy where there should be choice. Who chose this dreadful path? Council elections next year. .choose better

Denis Wilson
20/11/2015 02:50:47 am

For God sake leave the natural lie of the land alone, especially the creek lines.
Mission Beach is famous for its Cassowaries. They don't eat Concrete. Wake up, before it is too late.

Elizabeth Stevenson
20/11/2015 08:06:56 am

Please don't mess with Mother Nature. Areas like ours are so unique and special, which is what brings people here in the first place.Interfering upsets the whole ecosystem and can have devastating effects of many species of flora and fauna. We live in paradise and we would like it to stay that way so that future generations can enjoy what we are so priveleged to have.

Atalanta link
5/12/2015 11:02:33 am

It is very obvious to everyone but CCRC that the better, alternate route is a more environmentally sensitive approach to linking this walking track. It is also the perhaps the least expensive and the one that is supported by many of the locals. I have not yet read anything from a local giving good, solid reasoning for the bridge option. Please reconsider CCRC and listen to our local community.

Lisa
6/12/2015 07:56:09 pm

The alternative route is best, its what the locals, who care about the cassowaries want. The alternative route is less damaging, cost less. Mission beach is about the cassowaries, not the tourists.

Carrie Hauxwell
6/12/2015 08:01:16 pm

Let Mission Beach be the natural paradise that made it so famous. Please don't destroy that through lack of imagination and care.

Julie Beard
7/12/2015 01:22:46 am

To whom it may concern,

Mission Beach is a truly stunning part of the world that I grew to love when I lived in Innisfail some years ago. In particular, I visited that part of that beach on many occasions.To spend time enjoying the peace and serenity of the environment and just to sit beside the water listening to it lapping on my days off.

It greatly saddens me to hear that you are now planning to dig up this stunning natural tropical forest. To make a track that the local residents don't want and who have suggested a different pathway. Which will preserve the critical balance of the environment and preserve the area for the threatened and endangered species the Cassowary which visits on a daily basis. Which only goes to prove this environment is and should be of critical importance and not to be destroyed no matter the reason.

It's a shame though after experiencing many natural devastations through cyclones. Surely man made devastations should be prevented at all costs. Again, I state this area is an vital area for many threatened and endangered species so we need to preserve it and the surrounding area at all costs just like the Great Barrier Reef.

What I find so bewildering is the failure and disregard by CRCC to listen to the needs and wants of the local Mission Beach Community. They need to consider suggested amendments to the current plans and state the rationale why these plans are not suitable to the community. Before any destruction of natural forestation commences. Again I state, surely local residents know what is going on in their neck of the woods, and what they need!

What is also needed is the CCRC and representatives from the community to meet and resolve the many issues before final decisions have been made and prevent that beautiful part of the beach area which is marked for destruction by man.

Queensland's natural forestation needs to be preserved for its creatures all great and small and for mankind before it is lost for all time. This is my emotional prayer for a part of the world that I truly love! Julie




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