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I MOVED to Broadbeach in 2015 after 65 years in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney.
My move was mainly motivated by the warmer weather and I must say it is beautiful. I thought I would be able to continue my morning ritual of a walk along the beach and then in for a swim.
Although I continue to do this, the danger that is encountered upon entering the water should not be understated.
The amount of work that has been carried out at nearly all of Sydney’s beaches is amazing, with ocean baths and bogey holes making it much safer for the elderly to swim. Now compare that with the Gold Coast, where zero work has been done on the beaches for close on one hundred years.
Tens of thousands of locals and tourists have to take unnecessary risks when entering the water, and most only up to their knees.
I do not know the cost of building massive rock pools as the type at Bronte Beach, Sydney where the tide comes over the top except on low tide and allows for safe swimming with no big rips sweeping along the shore.
Although there are hundreds of elderly people walking along the beach you could count on one hand the number who enter the water. They are all of the same opinion, too dangerous.
Money can’t be the problem as council are spending $10 million to put more sand on beaches.
I’d like to think I may receive an answer from council, and maybe the Bulletin could look into it? ROBERT ORR, BROADBEACH
IF the big supermarkets go ahead and stop distributing plastic shopping bags, then the public could face a health hazard from wheelie bins becoming filthy from unwrapped food waste and riddled with blowflies and maggots.
For decades residents have put the plastic shopping bags to good use and used them to wrap our food scraps in to keep the wheelie bins clean and help to keep the environment clean.
If plastic bags disappear, then expect to see filthy maggot-ridden wheelie bins in your street. However supermarkets will still ‘sell’ you a roll of plastic bags. Talk about hypocrites. KEN WADE, TWEED HEADS THE strangest thing happened the other night. I had a dream that the gross amounts of money being spent on war around this poor old world would be quarantined for a month and channelled into rebuilding the poorest of those countries that have been torn apart by Hurricane Irma.
Unfortunately when I woke I came back to earth and realised that money for the military can always be found to destroy. However, these king’s ransoms cannot be diverted to rebuild the poorest of these countries that have been torn apart. D.J. FRASER, CURRUMBIN
WE Gold Coasters really are like flies to a cow pat with the endless tack we are happy to attract and pay for; now The Logies. What next?
Pauline Hanson opening a pole dancing private members club? DAVID HALL, LABRADOR