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Mt Buffalo Camping options? 24-Nov-2014 At 5:35:34 PM patto

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On 24/11/2014 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
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>From the Buffalo Aidfest just finished, my general impression was that
>the new system is a real dogs breakfast as far as it working smoothly,
>as I noticed campers on wrong sites causing others to set up on wrong sites
>etc, and a grey nomad camper-van with two occupants turned up (without
>a booking), expecting an honesty box* and some sites available on a casual
>basis...
>
>I checked the honesty box and it is still there, but unlocked and prominant
>signage associated with words to effect of 'Have you booked your site yet'.
>
>The friendly Ranger offered to amend our site booking to include all the
>extra cars that were involved...

I don't believe it. There changes were recommended by experts from Deloitte Access Economics. Are you really suggesting you know more about camping, booking sites and paying fees than these experts?

These experts spent months reviewing, modelling and going for expensive lunches before recommending these changes. They have years of experience of taking public money and producing glossy brochures of recommendations and impact statements.

Clearly if something is going wrong here it is the visitors to the National Parks that are to blame. Now we could have another study done and recommendations to remove all visitors to fix this issue however, we are currently spending all the money on a website so we will have to wait another decade before we can fix this problem entirely by closing the entrances to the National Parks..