Letter To The Editor
- Magnetic Community News
- Feb 19
- 1 min read
Hello all,
Rejecting the Radical Bay access road repair means that no one, but the fittest, can enjoy Arthur, Florence and Radical Bays and the protected National Parks Environs thereabouts.
Infrastructure and controlled access to these bays have co-existed historically. Repairing and reopening the road with improved design and appropriate environmental protections is consistent with the principle of Ecologically Sustainable Development under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act of 1999.
Reminding myself that Magnetic Island has previously accepted significant infrastructure works — including the dramatic construction of the road to Horseshoe Bay — no different to today's topic, in order to provide shared access across the island. Access and conservation have coexisted before.
I have lived for over 60 years within the freehold and protected terrestrial and marine park environments surrounding me and value the freedoms those protections afford. The question is not whether these areas should be protected — they already are.
Environmental stewardship is not about locking places away. It is about using and enjoying them responsibly so that they remain assets for future generations, as has already existed for eons, and where the observers become teachers and protectors.
Why is it being said there is no access to the Radical Bay Foreshore and Beach???
No Access---- No See --- No Care!!!
Sincerely,
Michael Schmidt.
Mike Schmidt, you ask "Why is it being said there is no access to the Radical Bay Foreshore and Beach???". The reason I say that, and your Queensland Globe map demonstrates it, is that the existing track down to Radical ends at the fenced boundary of the private freehold land at the back of the bay, hundreds of metres from the beach. Sure, you can walk or drive across that private land now but if the gates are locked or it is ever developed there will be no public access across that land. The plans for the shelved Sea Temple resort or the abandoned 24-lot subdivision (basically a gated community) both show that public pedestrian access was/is to be exclusively…