Pickering flat - howqua

[ErichFromm]

Was just up sheep yard flats/howqua way and spending a little time in the water. Came across a “glow stick” wedged under a rock. And then another, and another….

After about an hour found a whole pile of them all across the river covering maybe 300 metres….

Not sure how they got there - but given the distance they were spread it seems someone was throwing them in intentionally.

Just confirms maybe we shouldn’t be trusted with nice things….

[Camminata]

Post Invasion Day celebrations by certain people who say things like "love it or leave' Faark off we are full" whilst sinking beer bongs singing ACCADACCA! and look what they do what a disgrace.

[paidal_chalne_vala]

If deportations become the norm under the Brave new Broom of the QLD Spud Regime then these air heads
WHO POLLUTE OUR MOUNTAIN STREAMS with junk should be sent to Heard Island for life and then some more time after that .

[Biggles]

Pickering Flat is but one disturbing example.
All the same, it is a poor, very bad look and damning reflection on the city people who rush to the bush for their holiday but forget to pack their good behaviour kit. Their kids are blithely let off the leash to do whatever they please to unwind after a school year. Who knows what other junk has been summarily dumped into the Howqua to further despoliate this once pristine environment?

The scenes at Sheepyard Flat show many vandalised trees that have been cut down for firewood, along with a landscape frequently pock-marked with large fire rings peppered with broken beer bottles, aluminium cans and tin foil. Fry's Hut is heavily vandalised by graffiti ant trees around there have been cut down for firewood too. This is the haunt of the bogan. Forty-plus years ago few people knew about this beautiful piece of bush on the edge of the high country.

Where did we go wrong?

[paidal_chalne_vala]

Howqua Hills is only worth camping at and visiting in mid winter when 4 WD tracks are closed and it is too cold for most Shazza and Dazza type
drunken mongers and brain dead
bogans to go camping.
Sheepyard Flat is pleasant in mid winter as a base camp for a day trip to Mt. Stirling or other snow locations.
Howqua Hills is a " Historic Area" which has different classification to the adjoining National Park and State Forest.
If you think Fry's Hut is bad in mid summer then try The Upper Jamieson Hut during Cup Day weekend.
You can hear the banjoes playing , you know straight out of the film " Deliverance".
My friend and I drove into that camping area in my friend's 4 x 4 truck. We took one look around and went straight back out .
These people had proved that de evolution is real . There is such a thing.
That is why I am forever careful when it comes to car camping anywhere even for one night.
If you can hike in somewhere to camp , even just 5 kms , then it does offer some kind of Shyte filter.