From My Facebook (if it works!):
This is on the South Coast Walk in the Royal National Park, just South of Sydney. There must have been more than 5k of this grid. Why!! Ugly, unpleasant to walk on, expensive, and if it is there to prevent erosion, the rest of the 25K would have had heaps less with a bit of decent track marking and better drainage.
Among the state’s cleanest creeks … Sharyn Cullis and Pat Durman swim in O’Hares Creek in the Dharawal State Conservation Area. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Preposterous that coal mining could destroy this region!
This pool is just like the one where spent the endless summers of my childhood, Heathcote Creek, a tributary of the Woronora River, like O’Hare’s Creek a tributary of the George’s River. I am only recently learning about the Dharawal aboriginal people who are connected to this land.
I am reading: Rivers and Resilience: Aboriginal People on Sydney’s George River (I’ll post more later about that book)
I am outraged by the proposals to destroy these areas. This must be stopped. I hope that there is a massive opposition to these offensive plans. Please comment if you know of petitions, or campaigns.
Mining ‘threat to swamps and rock art’:
Resistance is growing to coalmine plans, writes Ben Cubby.
Full article from the SMH follows:
Click to continue reading “Mining threat: Dharawal land and rock art”
Ampersand Bookshop Paddington, originally uploaded by Waltzzz.
Had a good time here today! Worth coming to Sydney for.
Having a great time in Sydney. Gallery yesterday. The above is one of quite a few from the Gallery of NSW posted into a set on Flickr.
