With Keep Australia Beautiful Week 2010 starting next Monday, 23 August, there’s really no time like the present to focus on the simple things we can each do in our daily lives to reduce the negative impacts we humans are having on our environment. This year’s event is focusing on public place recycling to help reduce litter on our streets and, for those of us who live and work on the coast, on our beaches, coastal reserves, caravan parks and the like. Rather than sending our empty drink bottles, cans, food containers and other recyclable items straight to landfill by consigning them to rubbish bins (or worse, not binning them at all!), from here on in we should each make every effort to recycle them by using public place recycling bins or, if these are unavailable, by taking them home for recycling. Check out the Keep Australia Beautiful Week website for more information, including tips and resources to help ensure you are recycling right, and to find out what your rubbish is being ‘reincarnated’ into. After all, keeping beautiful starts with you.
Posts Tagged ‘camping’
Infamous coastal controversies of the past five years
Posted in GORCC, Uncategorized, tagged Anglesea, camping, caravan parks, CEO, Chief Executive Officer, coast, controversy, Crown land, Fishermans Beach, funding, GORCC, Great Ocean Road Coast Committee, Jan Juc, Lorne, parking meters, revenue, swimming pool, Torquay, Torquay Foreshore Caravan Park on April 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It will probably come as no surprise when I say that our work is not all plain sailing. GORCC has weathered plenty of controversial issues over the past five years. While these have been challenging at the time, they have all inevitably led us towards learning some very valuable and salient lessons. Our most infamous controversies include: ‘Parking Gate’, ‘Pool Gate’, ‘Bunker Gate’, ‘Memorial Gate’, ‘Camper Gate’, ‘Cut/gap Gate’, ‘Stairs Gate’, ‘Toilet Gate’, ‘Slaugherhouse’, and ‘The Pong Su’.
Crown Land Caravan Parks – Funding coastal management in Victoria for more than 100 years
Posted in Managing the coast, tagged camping, caravan parks, coast, committee of management, Crown land, funding, Great Ocean Road, holidays, protecting the coast, recreation, revenue, tourism, Victorian Coastal Strategy, volunteers on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For more than 100 years, caravan parks and camping grounds on coastal Crown land have provided affordable recreational opportunities for millions of people to visit and enjoy the coast each year. They have also provided the majority of funding for voluntary, not-for-profit committees of management who work to look after look after Crown land foreshore reserves and the coast itself.
