emblatame (Ron)
Reefy Area and Rocks at Emmagen Beach, Cape Tribulation
The old apparently degrated reef right on the inshore is common in far North Queensland. I don't think it ever ewas proper reef, only aggregations of coral substances. It is hard when you walk on it with lots of holes and clefs and pools that do contain small fish and crabs and other sea life. There is seaweed and algae growing there too. Rock and this reefy stuff often encroach on each other.
The farmers in North Queensland are getting blamed by the Premier of Queensland who introduced awful legislation against farmers last week, blamed for the destruction of the Reef. This is garbage. The Barrier Reef is as healthy as ever - it is a greeny fallacy and the Government is bending over backwards to the greenies because they want the votes in the next election and people in the south don't know the real truth here and believe all this stuff. It is so sad. I know that every year the rivers run dirty orange and brown with lots of sediment BUT the rivers have always done this. Most of that sediment comes from unpopulated and undeveloped areas in the inland and even in untouched rainforest 10 inches of rain in a day scours the soil out that runs muddy out to the rivers. Mangroves in mud flats have always been at the forefront of beach expansion into the sea. Here in Cairns some 5 and 6 km in from the beach, under the top layer it is all sand and then mud proving that for a couple of thousand years mud has been carried by rivers.
We ought to be told the truth. Farmers don't use much fertiliser because it is so expensive and it is scientifically monitored when it is aplied. To blame them is nothing but political expediency by a government which releases 3 metre dangerous crocodiles in populated areas that ruins businesses as has happened around Magnetic Island this week.
Reefy Area and Rocks at Emmagen Beach, Cape Tribulation
The old apparently degrated reef right on the inshore is common in far North Queensland. I don't think it ever ewas proper reef, only aggregations of coral substances. It is hard when you walk on it with lots of holes and clefs and pools that do contain small fish and crabs and other sea life. There is seaweed and algae growing there too. Rock and this reefy stuff often encroach on each other.
The farmers in North Queensland are getting blamed by the Premier of Queensland who introduced awful legislation against farmers last week, blamed for the destruction of the Reef. This is garbage. The Barrier Reef is as healthy as ever - it is a greeny fallacy and the Government is bending over backwards to the greenies because they want the votes in the next election and people in the south don't know the real truth here and believe all this stuff. It is so sad. I know that every year the rivers run dirty orange and brown with lots of sediment BUT the rivers have always done this. Most of that sediment comes from unpopulated and undeveloped areas in the inland and even in untouched rainforest 10 inches of rain in a day scours the soil out that runs muddy out to the rivers. Mangroves in mud flats have always been at the forefront of beach expansion into the sea. Here in Cairns some 5 and 6 km in from the beach, under the top layer it is all sand and then mud proving that for a couple of thousand years mud has been carried by rivers.
We ought to be told the truth. Farmers don't use much fertiliser because it is so expensive and it is scientifically monitored when it is aplied. To blame them is nothing but political expediency by a government which releases 3 metre dangerous crocodiles in populated areas that ruins businesses as has happened around Magnetic Island this week.