The summer has yet again attracted people to sleep at the Kalk Bay crags. Last year was the same story. Today we carted out (yet another) huge bag of trash left by these idiots. In addition they have stocked Blackbeards cave with several dead trees worth of firewood and made a huge fireplace in the cave. The roof of the cave is blackened from the smoke and fresh grafitti adorns the walls. Despite repeated requests from our side Park management have obviously never appointed rangers to patrol this area.
Please if you are climbing there take some time to help, and throw all of the dead trees far down the slope and destroy the fireplace. We only had the time today to pick up the trash. Thanks! Take some photos of yourself doing the work and we will use them to ensure our continued good image in the eyes of park management and maybe put a bit of pressure on them to keep the park in better shape! Thanks.
Kalk bay trash
Kalk Bay trash
Hi Greg
As I mentioned to you earlier, I've yet again nagged Parks about it. Even if they do nothing, at least they see us as concerned about the environment. At best, they will hopefully step up patrols in the area, although they have their hands full deploying personnel to cope with the surge in violent crime in the Park (which is, admittedly, more important) around TM.
Just to reiterate Greg's call, please just ditch any firewood you find there, and bounce any rifraff you see. The worst trash I want to encounter when climbing at a crag is lowlife climbers, anyway :-)
Brent
As I mentioned to you earlier, I've yet again nagged Parks about it. Even if they do nothing, at least they see us as concerned about the environment. At best, they will hopefully step up patrols in the area, although they have their hands full deploying personnel to cope with the surge in violent crime in the Park (which is, admittedly, more important) around TM.
Just to reiterate Greg's call, please just ditch any firewood you find there, and bounce any rifraff you see. The worst trash I want to encounter when climbing at a crag is lowlife climbers, anyway :-)
Brent