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PC Pom	Mar 23 2009, 12:19 AM
Anyone for tennis? Posts: 654 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: March 23, 2006	After the recent oil spillage on the Sunshine Coast, up here in Queensland, and the recent cyclone activity causing chaos on the mid and upward east coast of Australia, I'm happy to report that the local beaches are looking great! All except Moreton Island. There's been much bad local press about what the world's seeing and how that is going to impact on visitor numbers to this part of Australia, where visitor activity is based around the sea and the sand. No one wants to swim in an oil slick! However, yesterday I visited Caloundra's Kings Beach, perhaps the most popular of all the beaches on the Sunshine Coast and I have to say that people were splashing about in the water quite happily, although the sea was a tad rough and a certain amount of sea grass had littered the tide line. In fact Dickey Beach through to Moffat was also filled with swimmers. The clear up guys appear to have done a wonderful job! I don't know what's been shown on your local tv channels, or what you've scanned off the web, but let me tell you from someone who doesn't have anything to gain from attracting tourists to this part of Australia (except having to park further away than I want to when visiting the more touristy parts) the beaches are open and the surfers, kit surfers, wind surfers and swimmers are all out there. Hopefully, those tiny turtle hatchlings I witnessed breaking through the sand and land-paddling towards the Coral Sea, just a few weeks ago, have survived the wild weather and pollution in the sea. I'm told they hang around for a few years before heading off to Peru (a journey of 10 to 15 years) and then returning to the same spot from where they were hatched, in this case Mon Repos Beach in Bundaberg. It was an awesome sight on an awesome night, but no more awesome than the massive life journey these tiny creatures now face. P.
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