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Local Kayaks To Save Mary River

Local Kayaker Steve Posselt is undertaking another great journey to highlight the threat facing the Mary River with the building of the Traveston Crossing Dam. Steve has done a number of trips before, most notably a journey down the Darling and Murray Rivers, to highlight the degraded state of Australian rivers and the need for governments to act to protect them.

This time he is paddling from Brisbane to Sydney to present a petition to the office of the Environment Minister Peter Garrett.   The timetable for his journey will be

Saturday 4th Oct    Depart West End boat ramp.
Tuesday 7th Oct    Gold Coast
Thursday 9th Oct   Byron Bay
Friday 10th Oct       Ballina
Saturday 11th Oct  Evans Head
Sunday 12th Oct    Yamba
Monday 13th Oct     Minnie Water
Wednesday 15th Oct  Coffs Harbour
Friday 17th Oct     Nambucca Heads
Saturday 18th Oct   South West Rocks
Monday 19th  Oct    Port Macquarie
Wednesday 22nd Oct  Start into coastal lakes at Forster
Walk between Pacific Palms and Myall Lakes . Use this as a trial and see how hopping between lakes works
Sunday 26th Oct      Newcastle (John Crocker takes over support role)
Wednesday 29th Oct   Gosford
(To do Gosford, need to walk between Tuggera Lakes and Brisbane Waters)
Saturday 1st November Sydney Opera House

You can find out more about Peter and his work at http://www.kayak4earth.com/

The decision to build Traveston Crossing Dam was political. No detailed investigation of alternatives was undertaken. This should be an affront to all thinking people. Professionals were excluded from the process until after the political decision was made. The dam is expensive, unnecessary, a major contributor of greenhouse gases, destroyer of valuable resources, and obliterates a world significant lungfish breeding habitat. The lungfish is older than the dinosaurs. It is the link from the sea to the land – probably the most important living evidence of our evolutionary history. What sort of vandal would seek to destroy this?