SOS - Save Our Spit (13)

that is a great song and so true.....why is bigger always better, when is enough enough?a similar thing happened here, the mayor at the time had shares in an appartment building across the river from the town campground, all of a sudden the campground was to be shut down, lots of people protested this and a 'save the campground' commitee was formed and they marched to the council to protest, the short version is that the campground was shut, the appartments were built and then the company that built them went into receivership, another song comes to mind 'money money money its a rich mans world' oh and dont trees create oxygen which we breathe? i guess that once they cut down all the trees the rich man will be able to sell us oxygen and thus make even more money

I do not wish to offend you too much dear lady, but you have no idea what you are talking about.
I love it when the lefties and greenies begin to waffle on about the Southport Spit. They have no freaking idea.
The Southport Spit was built during the 1960s by Keith Williams with the use of a sand dredge. The entire thing is an artifical construction.
It is no more natural and precious than a landfill.
I suggest that you look up the history of the Southport Spit before you go lying down in the path of bulldozers.

this sort oif thing is happening in every state at the moment,where i live in the central highlands,the loggers are logging the only habitat left where the tiny leadbeaters possum lives,there are reputed to be only 500 left in the wild,not only that, some of the largest trees in australia are here and rare ones and they chop them down.

The origins of The Spit date back to the years 1897 - 1898 when a series of gales and high seas finally broke through a narrow stretch of land called Jumpinpin on Stradbroke Island.

The breakthrough created a new sea passage into Moreton Bay. Stradbroke Island was divided in two (North & South), changing the ebb and flow of tides through the southern reaches of Moreton Bay.

The impact on Southport's environment was remarkable. Southport's rocky foreshore had previously been exposed to open seas.

After the breakthrough, tidal action eroded sand from the southern tip of South Stradbroke resulting eventually in the surveyed township site of Moondarewa disappearing entirely by the 1940s.

Meanwhile, a low sand spit developed to the north of Main Beach Point and this permanent sand isthmus continued to edge across the mouth of the Nerang River until the construction of the Gold Coast Seaway in 1987.

As The Spit, developed into a permanent landform, there was a demand for private leasehold title of land and applications for dredging rights for mineral sands there.

lol Wash2u.....you beat me to it, I was just about to post the same information from the following website:



it appears it is Carl who should be doing his homework.

Great minds...................


But Carl is partly right, they did do some work on it to RESTORE it.

Maybe Carl should be campaigning against putting the sand back on Surfers Paradise beaches after the storms.