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Photo taken at Portland's Buckman Field for Our Daily Challenge: Pathway.
This is were I am training for the Portland to Coast Relay Walk.
quick note: I'm on vacation the first week of June and plan to be out & about with the camera as much as possible. if anyone wants to hit up some out-of-the-way places, send me a message through flickr mail!
A first for me. I saw this frog right on the path as I took my later-than-usual walks around the pond in back. It was almost dark. But the frog didn't seem to want to move. So I moved in and used the flash and the picture came out pretty well.....except for my finger in the left hand corner.
Hmmm... The figures show that the flash did NOT fire. Well, that's all right too I guess.
I'm playing piano again after decades, and I picked up Beethoven Sonata 14, a.k.a. "Moonlight Sonata", in C# minor. The knowledge is fuzzy, and the neural pathways are grown over with weeds, but it's coming back to me.
The Villages around Konso are built with several circular walls on a hill. The inner wall can be three to five metres high. Each walled area house more and more people as the population grows. The walls are largely defensive with pathways into the centre zig-zagging up the hillside.
Pathway Matta is a new and unique product from re-knowned Matta Products stable which provides an instant anti-slip Pathway with a safety surface incorporated. Ideal for covering old tarmac pathways and for new pathways where public safety is key to prevent slip, trips and falls. If someone does fall onto the Pathway Matta unlike concrete slabs, block paving or tarmac the Pathway Matta cushions the fall and prevents the impact damage associated with these hard surfaces.
Pathway Matta is made from 100% recycled materials and its green credentials don't stop there because instead of having to dig up old pathway tarmac, block paving, concrete or slabs and then dispose of in land fill etc - Pathway just covers over the top helping save carbon credits.
Ideal for the use in playgrounds, parks, retirment homes, hospitals, care homes, adventure parks, theme parks etc etc
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Development of the NSW Coast over many years has led to destruction of coastal littoral rainforests, only about 1% of original littoral rainforest remains.
People want to live by the sea or within close proximity, this is an inescapable fact which State and Local Governments know, and satisfying this need generates votes.
Developers know it too and they lobby our political representatives relentlessly to have them make laws which allow them to profit to the maximum from developments.
The Hallidays Point (Black Head, Red Head, Diamond Beach and Tallwoods) area is about 3.5 hours drive from Sydney, 2 hours from Newcastle and just an hour south of Port Macquarie, and its being developed faster than anyone might ever have imagined, though it's pretty much the same up and down the entire coast. Sometimes the planning processes are not as thorough as they need to be and sometimes this is deliberate as governments seek to look after their developer donors.
As always, the needs of the people are very often secondary to those of vested interests with a voice to the ears of the government.
The NSW Coast was once the jewel in the Australian crown with magnificent beaches, headlands, lake systems and hinterland rainforests. In the last 20 years the gloss is rapidly eroding as population pressures result in more and more destruction of our natural assets.
Fortunately, some good planning does sometimes happen as, in my view has happened here at Diamond Beach.
While I am critical of the fact that no adequate public parking was provided at the now almost built out Edgewater Estate it does appear that some good public facilities will be provided in the newly developing subdivisions between Diamond Beach and Redhead.
The littoral rainforest in shot here has been extremely degraded but the last 3 good rainfall years following the 2019 drought has meant that this small slither of rainforest has shown great recovery. The planning of the subdivisions to the west of Seascape Beach has ensured a good area of public space has been provided by the developers.
With the Sea View Estate Road infrastructure now complete the next stage is the development of public beach access pathways.
Although it was necessary to clear a path through the rainforest to the entry of Diamond Creek, I would hope that teams of bush regenerators will set about restoring this yawning gap asap.
This slither of Littoral Rainforest has been very degraded and was, until the 2019 drought broke, in very serious danger of total collapse. Excellent rainfall during 2021-22-23 has seen a lot of natural regeneration here but if it is to be maintained the area needs considerable expansion with a major planting program which hopefully will happen.
A viewing deck is planned near the point where Diamond Creek exits to the sea and while the concrete path stops short on the existing rainforest western edge it is planned that a raised boardwalk will link the concrete path to a Seascape Beach access and to the viewing deck.
Other facilities like toilets and picnic facilities will surely follow.
Given the huge expansion in the urban footprint in Diamond Beach, and while others may choose to disagree, it's my own view that these new green public spaces will add positively to the coastal ambience of the Diamond Beach Redhead precincts of Hallidays Point.