Springbrook Easter themed letterbox decorating is here! Just in time to give the kids a project to get them out from under your feet or just so you can show off your skills! Lets do the stay home thing and decorate away, and then when we are out on our socially distanced exercise walk, we will be amazed and entertained! Remember to make them Merv friendly!!
The smoke that's been hanging around in the last few days has been from a burn off that QPWS did on Pine Creek Rd. Check it out and see what they did next time you are heading down the hill.
Numinbah Forest Park has been slated to close by the powers that be in National Parks. It's a well used and beloved recreational area of both Springbrook and Numinbah residents. There is a petition going around; check for it on change.com and sign it there. Feel free to write to the National Parks and Tourism Ministers as well as our local Member, Ros Bates to express your concerns. Be quick though, they are hoping to remove the buildings, tables and bbqs soon. The plan is to close the area to the public and revegetate it. The problem is lack of funds for staff and maintainance from National Parks and takes away half of Numinbahs available recreation area AND puts more pressure on Springbrooks already overburdened minimal picnicking areas.
Has the parking been a bit out of control in your area over the weekend? Share the entertainment with our local counciller by sending a few photos of the parking and how it affects you and the local bussiness. Council (and the Police) are keen to stop any noncompliance with social distancing too, so send a few snaps of those big groups, crowded tracks and full lookouts to division9@goldcoast.qld.gov.au and let them know what's happening up here.
Check out the Notice board at the Springbrook Emporium (the tip) for local services and tradies. A great place to find out what's on, what's happening and who's selling what. Put your own notice up. It's a fantastic community resource!
Dont forget its Speed trap Sunday out there! Did you know that Queensland does double demerit point all year and not just in the holidays? If you commit the same offence with a year of the previous one, you get hit with a double whammy of points and fines. Our back roads are notorious for coppers with speed cameras, both mobile and stationary so stay under the 80km, even on those lovely long straights when you can finally get past the tourist doing 40km... that's where the coppers and their cameras like to hang out!!
The school holidays are here and with it comes the tourists and all their rubbish. It's time to start taking a rubbish collecting bag with you when you're out and about on your walks...
Our yearly Winter Drought will make an appearance soon! Have you thought about water saving ideas and started to implement them already. Winter is the season of wood and water up here. Supplies of both are needed until the rains come again. Good day to check your supplies of both!
Stay home. Stay safe.
💚Springbrook
