Stand at Point Addis and look east to Port Phillip Heads in the distance. Gaze west along the coast to the Split Point lighthouse at Aireys Inlet. Look across the southern ocean and glimpse gannets diving or swallows swooping past the cliff face. Spectacular Point Addis and the Ironbark Basin are fairly new additions to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Crown land’
Protecting spectacular Point Addis
Posted in Coast, Coastal biodiversity, Community, Community, Cultural heritage, Managing the coast, Volunteers, Weeds and native vegetation, tagged healthy coast, protecting the coast, weeds, volunteers, Crown land, collaboration, coast, passion, beach, native vegetation, biodiversity, cultural heritage, conservation, community, community groups, fauna, Point Addis, habitat, Surf Coast on April 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Beauty and the Beast: Managing the Coast Along Victoria’s Great Ocean Road
Posted in Managing the coast, tagged caravan parks, Climate change, collaboration, Crown land, erosion, GORCC, Great Ocean Road, Great Ocean Road Coast Committee, litter, recreation, sustainable coast, tourism, volunteers, weeds on February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The coast is what inspires and motivates the Great Ocean Road Coast Committee. There is nothing like a quiet day in the office managing the beauty and the beast of the coastline along Victoria’s Great Ocean Road. It requires a mix of skill, courage, patience and a thick skin. There are plenty of challenging issues like summer visitor numbers, growing populations, dogs on beaches, infrastructure upgrades and commercial activities in a time and place of climate (and community) change. Collaboration across boundaries with community groups, government agencies, other land managers and the general public is critical to success, but often easy to say and hard to achieve. We all have to do more to achieve a sustainable coast and community.
