YOU SAID IT! Fishos get your support after Diamond Lil's misadventure
LETTERS AND COMMENTS
Jean Marashlian
This person really needs to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. To damage a local business so that they are unable to make a living is so wrong. I hope the boat wasn't damaged through this vandalism. As a community, we really do not appreciate this sort of behaviour. We look out for each other and support local business. Not a great way for them to end the season, my thoughts are with them. X
Luke Jenkins
Should of taken him swimming.
Gabe Roberts
Should’ve tied him up at high tide mark for bait.
Matt Knight
Wish you could’ve found them on it and literally made them swim in the net.
Annie Dorrity
Classic! I love the tied to a pole bit. Should be more of it!
Tonia Rose
What was he thinking? Who in thier right mind say "hey I might steal a trawler today"? lol. Not the easiest thing to steal.
Port Douglas is a global trend setter
David Clark
Tourist tax is a killer in Victoria. My Airbnb bookings have reduced by 50%.
Flick Boucher
Let’s hope then, that no bed or tourist tax is implemented or imposed by the powers that be, as such.
Caroline Bloomfield
All the big resorts take their money and take it elsewhere it doesn’t stay in this town.
Dianne McMahon
Love Port Douglas. Been going there since 1993. But like everywhere due to government taxes, etc, getting too expensive. Brian and Dianne McMahon. Melbourne.
Is protecting against weather events council’s responsibility?
Simon Brewer
When did Australia turn into America?
Duncan Faichney
I can remember my Dad telling me that if you want to live by the ocean buy yourself a boat - don’t buy oceanfront land.
Neil Jabs
When I went to school we were taught that coastlines and rivers constantly change their shape with the seasons and weather related events. These people live in a bubble of their own self importance and think that they can alter mother nature's influence.
Vicki Thomas
Are these the owners who have been cutting all the vegetation down for the sea view?
Leith Keegan
Seriously? Build a house on sand, don't blame the water when the sand washes away. How do you think that the sand got there in the first place? Do you think that it piled itself up? Coastlines are constantly changing... adapt or die.
Lux Living Decor Scentsy
Yeah the body council in government should pay for it. I’ll have no pool soon if this keeps happening.
Robin Williams
For sure they are southerners... you live in the tropics so surely should know what that comes with? Don't worry about coconuts hitting you on the head people! Ain't nothing in there anyway!!
Are cane carriages a beach erosion solution?
Ned Bunyip
Oh most definitely pile all this rusty industrial refuse onto the coastline, influencers (cough spit) will come from all over to bask in your clever approach to too man made problems. These bin need to be cleared by who ever took the boogies out from under them.
Belinda Peters
I’m actually curious about the train lines whether we can fix em up for bikes to ride on like they do in Fiji on the off season. Wonder who owns them and the land they’re on? Especially the line from Mossman which goes up near the gorge and comes back around near the Botanical Gardens and through Santarossas. Pretty spectacular scenery for tourists.
Kiwa Onekawa
Not sure how true it is but they’ve already been bought for scrap? Don't quote me, just what I have heard.
Michelle Gough
Don’t know about that but all need taken away from the sides off the highways as they are a eyesore just rotting not good should have all been taken into the yard instead off been pulled apart off the tracks.
Terence Melchert
No - will rust out and create a mangled mess of rusting sharp metal. But definitely time for the council to put the acid on the Administrator to get rid of them. Must be breaking every rule in the tramway agreement and workplace health and safety book.
Robert Law
Me and uncle made a pig trap outta one once.
Emily Beutel
Also just to add to the discussion... perhaps if action were taken sooner to revegetate areas where erosion is occurring there wouldn't be such an issue. Take for example Pebbly Beach for the last 10 years, metres of the roadside has fallen into the ocean, yet nothing was done, no action taken, no trees planted. Then Jasper hit and it devastated that area... What is the solution now build a 4 metre wide rock wall because the damage is already so significant nothing can be done and I will bet my bottom dollar the only reason they are doing anything at all is because the highway is at risk and the only reason they are even aware is because I noticed not only the erosion but the damage to the culverts and the road itself it took months and numerous phone calls and emails to even get anyone out to take a look. 2 years on and works are still waiting to happen.
Andrew Parker
I am certainly more in favour of the view of Esther Faggianelli, in preserving some history of the cane train.
How about the Council (or a private company) reinstate the train line from the Port Douglas wharf to the Mossman township and onto Mossman Gorge. The cane carriages could be easily modified with open air seating and maybe a roof for the wet season. This could generate more business for both Port and Mossman, and would be great for the tourist industry to learn about the history of the cane industry and Sugar Wharf.
Further, the back packers staying at the Mossman Exchange Hotel hostel could travel free back and forwards to Port Douglas for work. The backpackers are vital to tourism in the region.
The track is 80 per cent there, we just need a locomotive and a Council with some initiative and commitment to the region, its history and alternative cost effective way to get around and see things.
The possibilities are endless if the Council could just put some thought into it – tours via the chocolate factory, the winery, include some advertising in or on the carriages for local businesses, etc.
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