Right to sail: Recreational access to Lake Eyre banned
South Australia's Department for Environment and Water have announced that recreational access to Lake Eyre will be banned in a new management plan released last week.
The new management plan restricts recreational access to the lakebed, including visitors entering the lakebed on foot. All other recreational activities, including swimming, driving, boating and landing aircraft, are already restricted under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972.
The department's woke minions are selling this as a win for the environment and visitor safety. In reality, it is a decision founded in myth, superstition and stone age sorcery. A decision that is racist and discriminates against people who have used the Lake for generations for swimming, sailing, or simply to experience a walk on its vast salt-encrusted surface. It was the scene for a land speed record by Donald Campbell in his Bluebird in the mid-1960s. The Lake is vast and the notion that a few footsteps on its surface, washed away by the next flood, is a cause of concern is an utter fantasy.
The commodore of the Lake Eyre Yacht Club Bob Backway rightly called the plan a "Joke":
"Sailing [has] to be about the least environmentally-affecting sport ever and our members are very attached to the lake," he said. The commodore has labelled the new management plan "a joke". "[It] must be the only national park in the world that you can't recreate in."
Many other National Parks in Australia are heading the same way as Parks' bureaucrats across the country apply the same "woke" standards to park management and the locked gates multiply (Ayers Rock, Mt Gillen, Mt Warning, Glass House Mountains, Grampians, Arapiles, St Mary's Peak etc).
The best response for those who want to experience our parks in their own way, is to continue to do so irrespective of stupid rules being made by fat-bottomed authorities in capital cities.
Set sail for Lake Eyre!
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