The Park Beach Reserve, Coffs Harbour and Land Care

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The Park Beach Reserve is unusual for NSW because it has a remaining strip of coastal bush separating it from the 'wanna be a Gold Coast'  high rises on Ocean Parade.  In the age of rising sea levels the Australian habit of building ON the beach and erasing protective vegetation barriers should be a thing of the old days.

The mushrooming tall buildings of Ocean Parade have a slim buffer at the front and back separating them from the road (Hogbin Drive) and the glaring light pollution from a bare sport field framed by large weeds (pines). The busy road and the speeding cars gobble up the green margins. Burnout wrecks set the bush alight and garbage is generously dumped by motorists.

A wide strip of vegetation bordering the road is regularly doused with herbicide, giving the edge of the little forest a brown and dead appearance. In the latest addition to 'land care', it seems that the endemic littoral rainforest species were just hacked to the ground with no apparent reason.

Maybe flat dwellers requested a better view of the noisy road and access to the light glare opposite? All weeds have been left standing. They are working hard on making Coffs Harbour even more ugly.