Save Our Dunes - Golden Bay's Best Request

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Sometimes I just have to laugh at irony's effect on human life. There's nothing else left to do but smile.



Golden Bay Western Australia is a picture postcard place. It's a stretch of around 15kms of sapphire blue ocean meeting rolling dunes. It's natural and untouched.

No one in Golden Bay wants to see the dunes flattened by a new developer's plans to put a couple of thousand houses on it. Once that happens, the postcard look will be gone.

The irony is that most of the placards placed around the Golden Bay area are on properties built in Golden Bay 20-40 years ago. These homes were taking bites out of the dunes long before someone got offended by it.

Animals are today's bargaining item. Mass destruction means mass execution - a matter that leans on greater losses over shorter times. Forget that animals were lost when their homes, roads, highways, power, sewage went in. Death and destruction is totally different now.

Irony continues as the people who moved into the area to enjoy this coastline decades ago, its sapphire coloured waters and beaches, won't be the only ones who'll want the same in the future.

Our popluation grows - as it has always done - as it will always do.

I wouldn't like to see thousand of rooves, roads and streetlights  lining up between the highway and the water either but it'll happen. It WILL happen. It's only a matter of time.

We'll need more homes, more land, and effective infractures to service a growing region. The dunes will eventually go. They were going when the first residents scraped away sand to lay down a slab and build a dwelling. More sand will go in due course as more joins them.

Ideally, city planning should keep the population in the wasteland areas of the country and choose to only build high-rise dwellings - but they don't, WE don't. WE stretch our legs and find a space of our own. Those who like the water choose the coast.

Older residents did it, newer one's will do it.

Best of luck Golden Bay-ers, I wish you well but don't expect lasting success. You may win this day but tomorrow is still coming. There will always be another tomorrow.

-M

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