By Margaret Maccoll
Horses asked to hold on or pick up
Horses are kicking up a stink with residents at Noosa North Shore by leaving behind their droppings.
Local resident Nick Hluszko said over many decades organisations such as the Noosa North Shore Residents Association, NPA, Noosa Council, State and Federal bodies had worked to protect the North Shore from development and to protect and enhance environmental values.
“Many battles have been fought to achieve this aim with one more recent being to remove the camels from the beach,” he said.
“Numerous arguments were used to do so including the impact upon flora.
“Yet we allow horses here that graze in paddocks on the southern shore somewhere or get fed commercial feedstock, all of which can contain seeds that can easily be sewn on the North Shore.
“It therefore perplexes me that over the past 20 years as horse riding activities have gained popularity that there are not tighter controls over commercial and leisure activities associated with this pastime. Specifically I am asking the question as to why horses are not ‘bagged’ to capture their droppings or excrement?”
Nick wants to know if it’s not too much to ask that horses be bagged on the beach.
“We ask dog owners to pick up their dogs’ excrement why not horse riders?” he said.
Sharks abound
More than the usual numbers of sharks have been spotted around Noosa and locals say they are looking for a feed of bait fish and mullet. One of the morning swimmers at Noosa Main Beach last week was startled when he raised his head to take a breath and saw a bunch of people waving and shouting shark to him from the shore. He looked up to see a couple of sharks too close for comfort and headed at super speed to the beach. A large shark was also reported off Granite beach last week.
Indian social media stars in town
Rocky Singh and Mayur Sharma are food enthusiasts and household names in India after rising to fame as hosts of a weekly travel and food show ‘Highway On My Plate’ on NDTV Good Times. The duo have 954,000 Twitter followers and enjoy immense popularity among food lovers.
A crew of 10 including the two hosts came to Australia and were hosted by Tourism Australia and Tourism Events Queensland.
They were in town filming at Noosa Main Beach as part of their visit and stopped off to have lunch at Noosa Heads Surf Club with chef Peter Kuruvita.
