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Old 15-01-2024, 05:07 PM   #1
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https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-new...uv-gets-bogged

What's the go with Brighton beach, for any forum members who live near there?

Are you allowed to 4wd on the beach if dropping off a jetski, is there a boat ramp section? Is it OK to drive through where everyone has put their beach towels and set up to enjoy the beach?

Anyway soft sand and fun and games ensue.
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The nearest boat ramps are in St Kilda and Sandringham unless Royal Brighton Yacht Club allows jet ski's using it's private ramp. ..NOT...

Morons doing as morons so...

Wish I'd known at the time.
No vehicles allowed on any Melb. metro beach.

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Was all over Reddit when it happened on r/Melbourne, all the anti-car cucks over there were cheering it on because they hate the RAM and Silverado.
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Shows them as armchair worriers; they could have flash mobbed the beach and helped push the cars.

Into the water.
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More beachside misadventures:

https://www.drive.com.au/news/driver...oyed-by-waves/

As George Costanza once said, "The Ocean was not kind."
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Double Prado stranding

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https://www.drive.com.au/news/toyota...tourist-beach/
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The occasional goose on Stockton beach would get caught out driving down to the Sygna wreck.
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Should have stuck to Playdoh.

I believe the plural should be “Pradi” per Latin rules.
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Just another media beat up story, this is very common up north with people and their play toys, not hurting anyone except for the owner's pride & wallet, being labeled gooses for their stupid decisions.
You can rest assure it is good business for local salvage companies.
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Nah; there is no Latin root involved as it's from Spanish for meadow so plural is prados. Put "prados" into a online Spanish to English translation tool and you get "meadows".

A bit like the plural for ibis not being ibi but ibises, or if you must be quaint, the classicalplural ibide. I used to all too regularly trip over these issues all the time during my last 20 years of work in WA Fisheries in the early 1990's with fish names where we always had scientists on hand with fish taxonomy degrees all to ready to correct us and point out when a Latin root was not involved. It was so bad that I started to think Octopus was the only fish name involving a Latin root. It also got that way in those pre-internet days, where there was no easy way to quickly check, that I found myself trying to write all my (then mainly economics) papers in a way that I could just use the singular for any fish or animal species I needed to refer to.

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There is no universally agreed plural form of "platypus" in the English language. Scientists generally use "platypuses" or simply "platypus". Alternatively, the term "platypi" is also used for the plural, although this is a form of pseudo-Latin;[20] going by the word's Greek roots the plural would be "platypodes".
Of course there are no platypus in WA (as far as we know despite some misguided attempts at translocation into WA the 1950's and perhaps earlier see https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&s...wb7GektsCFBrg6 . But nonetheless I still had to occasionally write advice regarding the odd reported but always unconfirmed sightings in WA and then always get involved in the debate with others with their differing views about the correct plural.
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Meh, I look forward to this type of proof of a Explorer, Territory or Everest still capable of finding themselves in that kind of predicament 25yrs post production..lol
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Cars will be pilloried with neither fear nor favour, irrespective of their brand, in this thread Just depends on how fully sik their drivers try to be.

aussieblue, WA fisheries, eh? Oh the conversation we could have regarding the GWS coming back to WA waters in numbers in the last 30 years...
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Cars will be pilloried with neither fear nor favour, irrespective of their brand, in this thread Just depends on how fully sik their drivers try to be.

aussieblue, WA fisheries, eh? Oh the conversation we could have regarding the GWS coming back to WA waters in numbers in the last 30 years...
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and no computer controlled electronics that can get wet or clogged with dust/sand.
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Probably not as I have adopted personal policy of not discussing current fisheries since I retired. There was nothing more annoying when I was there than retired staff making comments of current fisheries matters without being up to date with current research and policy issues. I any event I am not up to date with the latest on GWS population estimates, although I see at https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environmen...rks/whiteshark the white shark is listed as vulnerable and migratory under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. Nonetheless nothing I say or write here should be taken to reflect the current WA fisheries department's view or policies.
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and no computer controlled electronics that can get wet or clogged with dust/sand.
sure agree nothing like the KISS principle but I have to say, using my 09 4x4 Hilux (yes modern compared to the Kingswood) on beachs/dunes/tracks has never let me down - trouble is its too much much in todays 4x4's or offroaders.
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I’m actually surprised that it’s still legal to drive on beaches, considering that lighting a bonfire on such (at least in NSW) has been illegal for a number of years. An activity that seems to come with far less inherent risk.
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I’m actually surprised that it’s still legal to drive on beaches, considering that lighting a bonfire on such (at least in NSW) has been illegal for a number of years. An activity that seems to come with far less inherent risk.

Plenty of beaches around Australia you allowed to drive on, the only ones that are prohibiting is surburban bay side beaches for a good reason, population numbers.
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I’m actually surprised that it’s still legal to drive on beaches, considering that lighting a bonfire on such (at least in NSW) has been illegal for a number of years. An activity that seems to come with far less inherent risk.
Good old Indigo council (Beechworth) recently banned fire pits which seems weird considering every other council in NEV allows them.
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your not getting all green on us CB are you

You can still drive many beach's up our north coast CB provided you obtain a permit at the local servo etc.....
Far more restricted than in the ol days obviously (used to drive anywhere but I get the preservation of dunes and the growth) and also depends which beach how restrictions are applied.
Plus you can have bon fires at many still as well.

Anyway if it wasn't for the mighty plane ol 09 Hilux I would have never experienced such wonderful places right up to Noosa.
Would luv something like the ol 4x4 Falcon ute or the Van as noted above with those strong 6cyc motors but the D4 has performed very well.
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You can still drive many beach's up our north coast CB provided you obtain a permit at the local servo etc.....
Far more restricted than in the ol days obviously (used to drive anywhere but I get the preservation of dunes and the growth) and also depends which beach how restrictions are applied.
Plus you can have bon fires at many still as well.

Anyway if it wasn't for the mighty plane ol 09 Hilux I would have never experienced such wonderful places right up to Noosa.
Would luv something like the ol 4x4 Falcon ute or the Van as noted above with those strong 6cyc motors but the D4 has performed very well.
Can you still drive onto the beach around Kurnell ??

No full chassis on the falcon but, that's what I love about the Holden panel van, ute, and 1 tonner.
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Plenty of beaches around Australia you allowed to drive on, the only ones that are prohibiting is surburban bay side beaches for a good reason, population numbers.
You'd think it would be an issue from an environmental perspective too - oil/fuel contamination into water/sand. I'm very surprised it can be done at all given this day and age if you don't have the cardboard bin at work you're environmental Hitler
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No full chassis on the falcon but, that's what I love about the Holden panel van, ute, and 1 tonner.
yes mate Boat Harbour you still can but alot more restricted.
Too short a run in anycase.

Stockton/One Mile is still great and not too far to have a day out ex Sydney, 32k's long still a hoot, just can't go on the dunes as much as you used to.
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yes mate Boat Harbour you still can but alot more restricted.
Too short a run in anycase.

Stockton/One Mile is still great and not too far to have a day out ex Sydney, 32k's long still a hoot, just can't go on the dunes as much as you used to.
Goodo, yes know Stockton well, stayed in the tourist park there on many occasions doing work in Newcastle.

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it is, and together with the massive increased amount of page road to isolated beaches in WA it over recent decades doubtless increases the access to what were once very isolated and even unvisited beaches and their previously unsighted great white shark populations so sighting of these sharks and their accidental biting of the now more readily available HB's (often swimming and/or surfing in dangerous conditions and at unsafe hours) increases too. Even ignoring the State's significant increase in population and the number of people now swimming and surfing. But you still have significantly more chance of dying in a car accident while driving to the beach that being nibbled on by any fish.
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christ almighty whats doing - thread about silly people getting bogged on beachs with the wrong vehicles and where does GWS fit in this amongst other not on topic lol
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Ask Sprintey. But I guess as the OP he has the right to take this thread where he wishes.

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Big money in tourism; money rules. Just make sure you take some kitty litter with you when driving on the beach for that odd spill......

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