Bye Greens for now.

Happywanderer · The Master

Bye Greens for now.

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

Me head hurt Marj

Fix a.jpg

Cheers - John

Happywanderer · The Master

Thanks John. Had been thinking it over and sure I might have got it right by rotating the photo on my phone.
Will try it anyway.

Possum3 · Guru

God for a moment there I thought I'd been transported to England; but RL saved the day.

Happywanderer · The Master

Now it won't let me delete the upside down one to try again.
Sorry

meetoo · Guru

I guess it's still open on the 30th Dec.

Cheers, John.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

No John. It should actually read 29/12 - 1/1 every year. ALL must be out no later than 29/12 and can return midday 1/1.

They block off the road at the Midland Hwy stopping anyone getting down GreenS Lake road at all.

meetoo · Guru

Thanks Doug. I was just having a humorous dig at the wrongly worded sign. biggrin

Hope they reverse that decision one day.

Cheers, John.

rockylizard · Guru

meetoo wrote:
SNIP~~~ Hope they reverse that decision one day.
Cheers, John.

Gday...

Unfortunately, I personally don't reckon they will ever relax that restriction. hmm

Not as long as the locals continue to utilise the amenity of Greens Lake for their camping, boating and other water activities weekend after weekend ... and continue to show their disrespect in keeping the place clean, and behaving themselves etc.

Far too often, it is only the efforts, and respect, of those GNs who appreciate the generosity of the Goulburn-Murray Water and do a lot of toilet cleaning and cleaning up of rubbish.

Cheers - John

Dougwe · Chief one feather

.....and GMW know it too Rocky.

Footprints · Senior Member

For legality, for a "Private" to maintain that status it must be closed to the public for at least one day of the year. In South Australia the roads throughout the RAAF Base which are used daily by commuters from the neighbouring suburbs are all closed for one day of the year. I suspect the same reasoning at Greens.

Cheers Allen

Footprints · Senior Member

Correction. Should read "Private Road".

rockylizard · Guru

Footprints wrote:
For legality, for a "Private road" to maintain that status it must be closed to the public for at least one day of the year. In South Australia the roads throughout the RAAF Base which are used daily by commuters from the neighbouring suburbs are all closed for one day of the year. I suspect the same reasoning at Greens.
Cheers Allen

Gday...

You are definitely right when it comes to "private roads" - ie where public access is allowed across private land or use of a road on private land - but in the case of Greens lake the closure is because of one New Year's Eve a couple years ago.

Extremely well attended, almost overcrowded and there were hundreds (well, many hmm ) younguns getting stuck into the turps and having a 'good' time.

But like the old saying ... everyone was having fun until someone had an eye taken out.

Degenerated into a brawl ... which spread and impacted on innocent bystanders .... I think (but not sure) there was the discharge of a firearm ... and someone got wounded.

Add to that the unbelievable amount of rubbish left behind by these revellers and the GMW, Shire, CFA and police all decided it was not worth it anymore.

So, as with all things in life, because of a minority of irresponsible (irrepressible?) revellers the majority suffer and the lake is closed prior to New Year for a day or two.

Cheers - John

[EDIT: This post from the past explains it all - http://thegreynomads.activeboard.com/t58519820/confirmation-that-greens-lake-is-closed-for-nye-2014/

-- Edited by rockylizard on Saturday 25th of November 2017 08:40:41 AM