Letter to the Editor - Thursday November 15, 2012

Wouldn't it be lovely?

It would be lovely to see the lookout in Kaitaia somewhere to impress visitors.

I wrote years ago about the spray job that killed a couple of 10-year-old kauri.

So, where are all the youngsters planting out the reserve opposite in natives now it's been fenced off to stop dumping? Get 'em up from the courthouse.

Nice hangi, big sign acknowledging their hard work. Do something different.

"Look son, I planted those 20 years ago and since glass was made a valuable component of alcohol you can walk barefoot!"

Two weeks ago at Lake Ngatu, I saw a whole bunch hiding in the grass around a swimming spot. Did one of my little experiments. Moved six bottles 20 feet into the swim zone.

Came back after the weekend and they're tossed into the grass.

That same day kids from Aniwaniwa did a big glass dig right beside the beach (cheers).

I see just past the Waipapakauri Pub they've removed a fenceline and all the pampas.

I wonder if all the glass will be harvested when whatever crop being planted is ready.

Oh, and if anyone wants to make a dollar, here's an idea.

Rena is an acronym. Rubbish Everywhere Needs Attention.

With my luck I'd print 10,000 T-shirts and I wouldn't sell one.

SPIKE NFA

PS: Thanks Pat Davis and John Bassett.

Two weeks ago noticed some inconsiderate dotterel laid an egg in the domain of the 4x4s at Taipa Point. Put a stout sign up. Didn't want them unaware of the hazard.

Spent Saturday November 10 there. Nice to see a pair of drinkers breaking useless green branches off the pohutukawa for their fire, the bottles added not providing the heat.

So very early, being Rememberance Day, took a stroll and gave thanks to all the creatures that unshellfishly gave their all that we can enjoy a beach. Cuppa tea and on to the point. No egg, a hole where the sign had been, but the ice bottle next to the nest was still there.

With or without the sign that taonga's chances were zero.

It's rather ironic that we use islands as lifeboats and small tracts on the mainland to protect species when this very planet itself may just possibly be the only 'lifeboat.' Then again readers of the Lonely Galaxy Guide may be warned off this rock due to its all-consuming virus.

And as our place is slowly degraded, the unemployed increase. So really, those who voluntarily clean up should cease doing so, let the crap really go wild, and when we're wading through it, then people will get jobs doing it.