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Beaches a no-go zone for cars, Glenelg officials warn

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Jan. 8, 2015, 4 a.m.

DRIVERS have been illegally parking their vehicles on the beach at Bridgewater Bay.

Drivers have been illegally parking their vehicles on the beach at Bridgewater Bay.

DRIVERS have been illegally parking their vehicles on the beach at Bridgewater Bay.

Glenelg Shire officers have put motorists on notice after complaints from the public during the busy Christmas-New Year period.

Beachgoers raised concerns about the safety of people using the foreshore when more than 30 cars and four-wheel drives parked on the sand on one hot day alone.

Bridgewater Bay is popular with families, particularly those with young children, because it offers a long expanse of beach and is patrolled by the Portland Surf Life Saving Club.

A Glenelg Shire spokeswoman said the council was responsible for the management of the main beach area at Bridgewater Bay.

The only vehicles permitted to drive on the beach in this area are the locally based surf life saving club and a vehicle towing a boat trailer while launching or removing a boat from the water, she said.

It is definitely not for use by the general public to drive to a chosen position on the beach for the time they spend there.

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Scientists remain puzzled by mass of dead birds along West Coast

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TILLAMOOK, Ore., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Dead seabirds continue to litter the beaches of Norther California, Oregon and Washington state. The massive die-off has been ongoing for the last two months, and biologists are still stumped as to the exact cause.

"It tends to come in waves," Dave Nuzum, a wildlife biologist with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, told The Oregonian. "Each time you get a significant weather event, you're going to get a crush of birds."

Nuzum says dead birds are likely to continue washing ashore in the coming months. Die-offs in autumn and winter aren't unheard of, but this season's death toll is particularly high.

The casualties have mostly been isolated to a single species, Cassin's auklets -- a small, chunky bird that dives in the frigid waters of the Pacific for food and builds burrowed nests in the mud and crevices of seaside cliffs. Because only auks have been found deceased in large numbers, biologists are confident the problem is not systemic and that the local food chain is relatively healthy.

"We're not seeing a widespread eco-disaster here," Julia Parrish, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences professor at the University of Washington, told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat late last year. "We're seeing a spike of (deaths in) one species that's giving us clues, and the clues don't suggest that the bottom is dropping out of the ecosystem."

Though unconfirmed, most biologists believe the mass die-off is simply a result of overpopulation. Cassin's auklets had prodigious mating seasons the last couple of years, so the numbers of young, inexperienced birds competing for food is high.

Combine large numbers of young birds not getting enough to eat with cold temperatures and rough seas, and it's not necessarily surprising that so many are ending up dead or dying on the beaches of the Pacific Northwest.

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Christchurch lifeguards 'very busy' as big waves catch out swimmers, surfers

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Dozens have been rescued from the big surf at Taylors Mistake beach.

Strong swimmers are running into strife by underestimating conditions at Christchurch beaches, a senior lifeguard warns.

Surf Lifesaving Southern club development officer Henry Lawson says big surf at Taylors Mistake has caught out even normally "self-sufficient" surfers.

One, unable to make it back to shore, was brought in by an IRB rescue boat.

"He recognised he was in a situation he couldn't manage.

"Conditions were dangerous, with surf of over 1.5 metres funnelling into that confined area. He caught the attention of lifeguards.

"Generally, surfers are self-sufficient, so this meant he was in a terrible situation, " Lawson says.

"Most people are under-estimating surf conditions. They can be really good swimmers, but not taking account of drift and water movement."

That surfer figured in the 39 rescues to date this season.

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Lego pieces still washing ashore on UK beaches almost 20 YEARS after cargo fell off ship

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Pieces of Lego are still washing up on Britain's beaches 18 years after 62 containers with 4.8 million pieces inside fell off a ship 20 miles off the coast of Cornwall.

A quirk of fate meant many of the colourful plastic toys were marine-themed kits, including miniature cutlasses, flippers, spear guns, seagrass and scuba gear.

Tracey Williams has been combing the beaches of her native Cornwall in the years since containers fell off the Tokio Express in February 1997.

And she has set up a Facebook page to map where the iconic items have been spotted.

Although most of them have washed up in Cornwall, some have been found as far away as the Gower and Freshwater West in Pembrokeshire, hundreds of miles from where the containers were washed overboard.

Tracey is certain there is yet more to be found around the Welsh coastline.

Last year she received an email from someone in Melbourne who found a flipper they think could be from the spillage of 18 years ago, reports WalesOnline.

She said pieces now drift up on an almost daily basis.

I am delighted that this has captured the imagination of people visiting our beaches, she said.

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Hypnobirthing Northern Beaches – Planning for a Caesarean Delivery with Hypnobirthing – Video

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Shark sighting closes Warilla beach

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Jan. 5, 2015, 9:30 p.m.

Three beaches were closed for most of Monday, after a four-metre shark was seen lurking off Warilla.

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Three beaches were closed for most of Monday, after a four-metre shark was seen lurking off Warilla.

Lifeguards raised the alarm about 10.15am after spotting the shark 15 metres off the breakwall at Warilla South Beach.

"The beach was quickly closed and all swimmers in Little Lake were alerted to the sighting," a Shellharbour City Council spokesperson said.

Warilla, Warilla North and Warilla South beaches were closed while the Bendigo Bank Aerial Patrol conducted a sweep of the area.

Aerial patrol chief Harry Mitchell said a number of reports had been made in recent weeks of a shark off Warilla but shark-spotting planes had not sighted the creature.

"I think it has been there for three or four weeks. We've been flying over the area every day, making six passes a day, but haven't seen that shark," Mr Mitchell said.

Although the aerial patrol did not find the shark, the beaches remained closed all day on Monday as a precaution.

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