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A Mackay Northern Beaches family has stumbled upon an incredible find while walking along the beach.
Blacks Beach resident Karen Crompton said when her daughter first spotted the eight-armed seastar, it was a case of mistaken identity.
âWe were looking and counting the starfish and my daughter said, âOh, is that an octopus?â,â Ms Crompton said.
The patterned sea critter actually belonged to the genus of seastar known as Luidia maculata, or Southern Sand Star, which likes to bury itself in sand up to 90m deep and can reproduce either asexually or sexually.
But unlike many other seastars which have suckers, the Australian Museum stated the Luidia instead had âtube feet ending in a rounded knobâ.
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Marketing director Mark Mahoney said there were also plans for a golf course by the lakes and a resort next to the beach. Pappy s Beach sales and marketing director Mark Mahoney standing on top of the hill where residential lots with ocean and island views will be built at the master planned Shoal Point estate. Inset is an artist s impression of a resort that may be built down the track. Picture: Heidi Petith, Contributed
To find out more about Pappy‘s Beach, phone Mark Mahoney on 0481 895 637 or email mark8@live.com.au
You can also pop down to Mount Pleasant Centre where Mr Mahoney has set up an information desk.
By 1946, eight years after the change, the council was forced to send the SPA a letter asking them to commit to using the new Seaview name. But the following year, the association s secretary, J Gibb, wrote to the Mercury accusing the council of having bypassed residents wishes in their original decision. Gibb said 59 residents had petitioned for the town to be renamed Pan Bay. My association uses the name Bucasia in all matters appertaining it the post office and telephone, which is the only place on which the name was bestowed, Gibbs said in a letter published on February 22, 1947. We have fallen in with the council s wishes so far, but we deny the council s right to dictate to us ⦠what name we choose to call the locality in our private conversations.
Whitsunday MP Amanda Camm will call on the State Government to bring forward $750,000 for a business case on the duplication of Mackay Bucasia Rd.
Ms Camm said she would soon launch a petition calling on the funds to be fast tracked to this year’s state budget after meeting with Mackay Mayor Greg Williamson on Thursday.
“(Cr Williamson) shares the concerns of the access in and out of the Northern Beaches and in particular, the growing population that we are seeing there as well,” Ms Camm said.
“Our discussion was around a co-ordinated approach of advocacy.
“There is planning funding that has been allocated in 2022, 2023 and 2024.