For some years now residents, visitors and local business people have been complaining about the amount of rubbish vegetation that has been allowed to grow along the Esplanade between the bike track and the beach here in Hervey Bay
Looking across to Point Vernon from in front of the Deli Bay Cafe in Scarness
In some places it was almost inpenetrable and a complete eyesore however the new Council has begun a programme to clean up some of the worst spots and work has been done at Torquay and Scarness and the change has been wonderful.
Instead of a forest of woody weeds you can now see the water from places where it was once impossible to see anything and that has got to be a win/win situation for everyone.
Looking back towards the Esplanade from Scarness Pier
Some local businesses along the Esplanade are even reporting that more light is pouring into their shops now that the rubbish has been cleared away.
Let’s hope that this is just the start of an ongoing effort to beautify the Hervey Bay foreshores.
Having been in the Hospitality Industry and worked around the globe all my life, I feel I would like to make a comment on the way the Bay is sold. Having been away from the Bay for for over ten years, we have notice a lot of change for the good. But may we suggest that the bay takes on that tropical look, that customers are looking for. Just go into any travel agency, and you will notice, that ALL the tropical holidays nearly aways show a PALM TREE! Take alook around the bay at new or fairly new builds have taken place, and you note that there inevitably is many types of palms.
So why don’t we give HB a new image, and give it that tropical look, with all the trimmings. We have the accommodation facilities of pretty good standard, with a little help, we could make it Australia’s Tropical Play-Ground.
Now the big and fast boats have been, in this calm bay, and found accommodation reasonabley priced, hopefully they will return.
Perhaps the council will have meeting of the Tourist Industry Owners, and ask them what they should be doing with the sea-frontage, aqnd get rid of all the SCRUB !!!
I must disagree and say the bay looks bare without the trees, it separates the town from the beach- if you want to see the beach walk on it.
The ‘scrub’ is local, native trees. That scrub is what keeps the salt spray from the grass and that makes it die and look like the long grass pollups above the beach at the Gold and Sunshine Coasts. Palm trees don’t do this as they leaves/ branches do not cover the same surface area to hold back the sea spray- the increased breeze at these places is another prime example.
Also, much of that scrub was planted by a former council of long ago to hold the esplanade together- look and how Urangan has fared where they have no scrub- they have rocks, Burrum Heads has bricks. That scrub is what also provides a cool place to be in summer. Let’s look at the beauty that ‘scrub’ brings. We wouldn’t take out a rainforest if it was along the foreshore- so why is this beautiful? Why not make it more dense with night watering and make it an animal corridor?? It could be beautiful for all the opposite reasons to the SC and GC.
How could they do this to Torquay Beach?
We’ve been overseas for ten weeks and we are shocked by the appearance of our beautiful foreshore. This is well known as a family beach with safe swimming and lots of shady areas. Even on a busy weekend we could find a spot on the beach where trees overhung the rocks and we could settle down with our young grand children and know that they were being protected from the fierce summer sun. Where is the shelter now? These shady areas where always the first to go now we have miles of rocks. Please tell me the sense of that. Will the holiday makers come back…no I don’t think so.
Hi to all, I have lived here most part of my life, i love hervey bay. we all do. torquay is now much more beautiful, and cleaner and safer for all to enjoy, at the torquay market on saturday protesters were their making a fuss. each to their choice but when it comes to these so called protesters complaining about the culling on the forshaw, wearing cardboard signs around their necks, just where do they think the cardboard cutouts they were wearing come from. the forshaw has only been tidyed up, not culled. the main root systems are still their, tidying up brings new life and fresh regrouth. maybe your wasted efforts would be better put to use with something much more important, and since when do these people have the right to ask people if they rent here or are buying, and if they are employed or not, very personal qustions from people who wear cardboard cut outs.
what a total waste of pen and paper.
get a life for goodness sake and make something more of yourselfs instead of a cardboard cutouts. you were the joke of the whole day
from janna
I dont think our vistors to the bay or i want to fight their way threw the scrub to find the sand and beach. worry about your own back yard, their are pleanty of trees for shading still, and its so much nicer a stroll now, you all are never happy with what any one does for the bay, council is not wasting money their doing good things with it like the new bike paths, and cleaning up. At least our vistors can go back and tell others how beautiful our forshaws are.
some times these things are best left to the people who know more about it then you, and they do not do this type of tidying up, light heartedly every thing is taken in thought and care.
this is the world we live in and we may be all on our little mission to save the world. but lets face the truth, if you all would stop wasting the paper, and card board, not to mention the cars you all arived in to make a fuss so you all choose a family day at the market to do it, sad that you didnt want to pay for a site to set up your so called informantion on. sader still that your time was wasted. theirs people out in this world that could do much more with the time they have been given, you all could have been having a lovely time with family, not trying to make a fuss over something you dont and could not understand and may be never will , thats why people are paid in positions that know whats best. some of us know when to butt out of things and some are too silly to know better.
be advised better for you to be silly with your own back yard and fight your way threw your own scrub, and leave the rest of the world to take care of its self, yous are not god, and save all, get a life, put your engery into something intresting. from janna
hi , for any one that does not like the way hervey bay looks or the way that council is doing their job, i would say to you go back where you once come from. do not come to our hervey bay if all you want to do is complain about our town. we are a fast growing young city and all things take time to grow for the better of all who do live here and who visit our beautiful town. we in hervey bay have the best ocean at our door step, i over heard a lady say yesterday that she was from vic and has only been here for two months and that every one is so nice and frendly and she has been welcomed with open arms and invites to every thing around town, for thouse who say theirs nothing to do here, well others have to buy a diery to keep all of every days appoiments in so they dont miss a single one so that is really saying something from a lady that has come from vic.
i think thats wonderful, and i agree that their is so much to do and places to go very few of us have enough hours in one day to fit every thing. i dont think many of us have time to complain about the job council does, they do a great job our town is wonderful. if all you can do is go on a holiday and come back and are compareing us to else where well dont as we are an original place with original people and we dont need to be any thing like other places with a palm tree we are fine how we are. we are growing and we have lots of beauty every where, we are a nice holiday place to visit and relax, and thats part of what the bay is known for. if your worried about the lack of some trees, plant one in your own back yard, and sit under it if your worried about too much sun than wear your sun screen and remember to slip, slop, slap, for goodness sake wake up people visit to see our beach, not a bush retreat or mangrove that they have to battle to get threw to our beautiful beach. my vote goes for the wonderful clean up action that was taken. go hug a differant tree else where. and get a life than you would have no time to complain.
and try a smile a day, makes it all worth while. when you get one back at you.
love and smiles to all from janna