Don’t take paradise for a parking lot!

Callala Point is a particularly quiet “lagoon” or reef embayment which has presented very special natural phenomena including

• close inshore whale visitations - including a whale resting with her calf on the journey south, and another large humpback,
• a “feeding frenzy” when the tranquil waters were a tumult with huge schools of bait fish attracting larger fish and pods of dolphins, swarms of gulls, more than a hundred pelicans, sea eagles from a wider area,
• every day fish life, rays, dolphins, as well as mass flowerings of the sea-grasses and mass spawning of the sea-bed marine animals that cloud the water with vital fertility, easily observed in these safe shallows by snorkelers, kayak & canoe paddlers, young sailors and relaxed amateur fisher-folk.

All that would be banished forever by a land and water parking lot!

Let us not fulfil Joni Mitchell’s words,

• “That you don't know what you got till it's gone. They paved paradise and put up a parkin' lot.”

A Callala Point marina would do that -  take paradise and make it a parking lot!!

However, we know what we’ve got in Callala Bay -  that’s why we live and visit here! So, we’ll protest and make our views heard, for ourselves and future generations.

Who needs to hear our objections? 
What needs to be done ?

• Talk to your friends, your local community, wherever you are
• Talk to Bushcare and Landcare motivated volunteers
• Talk to people who use Callala Bay for launching their boats, to sail or fish, young families with children and the older folk who use the Callala foreshore park
• Phone and write to Local MPs -  Joanna Gash, Shelley Hancock, Gareth Ward...
• Write, even a brief but strong letter, to NSW State Government ministers (Planning / Primary Industry / Environment / Lands / Roads and Ports / Tourism / Sport & Recreation / Premier)
• Write to Shoalhaven City Council - ”Attention Greg Pullen and Russ Pigg”
• Lobby and question Shoalhaven City Councillors and candidates (election in September)
• You might also write letters to the local newspaper, and
• Phone in to local 2ST / PowerFM radio talk-back sessions.

Contact information for your letters is supplied in a pdf file linked to this.

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D.U.M.P. the destructive unwise marina proposal