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Human Impact on the Arapiles/Tooan State Park |
11-May-2010 At 2:26:35 PM |
lacto
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>I first went there in 1974. 30 December. No posts around the pines. No
>fire bans. We just drove our Holden under the pines and put our Paddy Pallin
>'Glen' tent up. Made a fire using pine needles. Ate sausages and drank
>beer. Walked to the cliffs in Volleys. Very Aussie. Iain Sedgeman drove
>up in his Holden a day or so later; he has a wonderful memory for minitiae.
>Given the sad demise of Chris B, Iain would be good to talk to as someone
>who would remember the detail of what the place was like before it became
>well known.
>That said, Araps is hardly that popular (thank heaven there is no lake,
>beach or river right next to it) and the few simple measures to control
>camping activity, use the defined walking paths and pave high traffic areas
>like D-minor seem to work pretty well in preserving Arapiles much the same
>as I remember it nearly 40 years ago (I was last there in Jan this year
>- but not in the Holden).
I was first there in may 1970 . There was a fence around the pines which we jumped to pitch tents fires were outside the pines. The major fire had still to go through so there were very few wattles which came after the fire, I have been there once with someone who collected half a dozen rabbits for dinner before dawn (guns were allowed ) and all the dug up bullets carefully placed on the watchtower ledges I have seen somebody belaying on tiger wall area from the bullbar of their landrover. The red flags on he rifle range provided good incentive to get of the cliffs in the area . They would go up around noon |
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