Saw this on the news last night. Hope this doesn't effect access and the speed runs. Can't be good for for the environment or windsurfers and kiters.
www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-01/environmental-concerns-over-point-grey-marina-mandurah/11560474

No idea where the proposed channel is going, Liptons shouldn't be affected, but it may just go through the middle of the Point Grey speed strip.

Not sure if there's anything constructive we can do, the fishermen and environmental people are already up in arms, I don't think our concerns would add anything to the debate. But I'm open to suggestions.

The article shows the channel basically straight in a line from the cut.
so theoretically no real effect on th existing strips other than an increase in boat wash and sharks and speed foilers

What the real effect is from the toxic mud they dredge up polluting and killing the rest of the estuary.

They should be forced to use the spoil for land fill on the development if they believe it is not a problem for the ecosystem

Yes I see what you mean Steve, shouldn't affect either speed spot. Lets hope it doesn't happen though, even if it means a bitumen road all the way to boombas. People who pay that much for a canal home aren't goin to want to drive on gravel. I suppose eventually they'll want a bridge, even more disturbance of the mud.

I wonder if it happens will they use liptons carpark to load and unload civil equipment i hope not

I don't like the look of that thick red line.
Is that the great wall of China?
That could exclude us from the boombas launch site

On one of our last trips there at Boombas, a local farmer stopped to have a chat and mentioned that the whole area was either in the process of being bought or bought for development. This is obviously what he was referring to. Might have to rent a condo to sail Boombas in the future.

May be cheaper to hire a houseboat, then we could launch right at the run.

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decrepit said..
May be cheaper to hire a houseboat, then we could launch right at the run.

I often thought that'd make a great summer holiday. Go where you want to sail on the estuary, snd launch off the back of the houseboat.

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decrepit said..
May be cheaper to hire a houseboat, then we could launch right at the run.

I often thought that'd make a great summer holiday. Go where you want to sail on the estuary, snd launch off the back of the houseboat.

Just keep in mind where we want to sail is usually covered in weed, props get rapidly entangled.

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decrepit said..
May be cheaper to hire a houseboat, then we could launch right at the run.

I often thought that'd make a great summer holiday. Go where you want to sail on the estuary, snd launch off the back of the houseboat.

I hired a houseboat on the estuary once, with that in mind, but most of the estuary is too shallow for them and you have to stay in the channels mostly.
They are not easy to drive or dock either, especially in cyclonic cross winds.
I did get to sail, and then we had to outrun the storm, which is not easy at 5 knots max speed.
One of the most exciting holidays I have had, because of extreme weather, near misses, getting grounded, having to go upriver to escape the storm, not being able to see the navigation markers because of the heavy rain, tidal surge making getting under bridges a very chancy event, etc. Not for the faint hearted.

2009 environmental scope
www.epa.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/Environmental_scoping_document/A1751_R1420_ESD.pdf