The remote and scrubby Lake Geeves …
A dry shoe walk to the wild and remote Lake Geeves …
So it seems that April Fools Day has arrived 10 days early this year in Tasmania.
Unthinkable! But that’s exactly what (to me) a delusional Huon Valley councillor is proposing, and of course MHA Cassie O’Connor in her predictable consistency claims it to be a good idea to promote development into what is the core of the Western Tasmanian Wilderness Area.
Just what the government and TICT would savour is to initiate another multi-million dollar lemon project that concurrently impacts upon wilderness values.
The problem with these harebrained fantasies is that they can easily become a reality.
The Tasmanian Greens support for a 3 Capes project is a classic example of how a vague idea based on (to me) a highly biased and unprofessional feasibility study and never underpinned by a sound business case, soon became a reality.
I’m sure Councillor Ken Studley has never walked anywhere near the Cracroft Valley, and if he did he would have found himself knee deep in mud by the time he arrived at the upper end of Farmhouse Creek.
As far as poorly sited tracks go – the entire route from the upper Farmhouse Creek area through the Cracroft Valley to the base of Federation Peak is one of the poorest aligned and wettest tracks in the entire WHA.
There has been no trackwork done in the region for decades, so any proposal would be a mammoth and financially-guzzling undertaking that would give little satisfactory economic return … in comparison to an alternative highly scenic walk, for example around the Picton Lakes – Mt Picton / Range area.
Of course the proposed Lake Geeves track would never be aimed merely as a casual walk … hut development proposals would inevitably follow.
This walking track proposal is impractical, loopy and invasive beyond belief.
Another poorly thought-out pie in sky!
Another Tas Greens out-of-touch embarassment …
• TT MEDIA HERE where there are permanent links to what the Pollies say …
