Marine rangers counting face masks that washed up on Lord Howe Island, 700 kilometres from Sydney.
More than a thousand disposable face masks have washed up on remote Australian island Lord Howe Island since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, sparking fears for marine life and seabirds. Early reports from Clean Up Australia Day a week ago also suggest face masks and other pandemic-related litter have emerged as a big problem on the mainland. Lord Howe Island Marine Park manager Justin Gilligan said a community-wide effort had recovered 1112 face masks from the island’s beaches and rocky headlands in the second half of last year.
25 Jan 2021
Intersection plans yet to be finalised
Plans to upgrade six intersections on Blackwall Rd, Woy Woy, and Memorial Ave, Blackwall, at a cost of $19 million, have yet to be finalised, according to NSW Roads and Maritime Services.
A Review of Environmental Factors and an updated design is expected to be displayed for comment this year, according to Services website.
Four intersections are on Blackwall Rd, with Victoria Rd, Farnell Rd, Allfield Rd and McMasters Rd.
Two are on Memorial Ave, the intersections with Gallipoli Ave and Maitland Bay Dr.
The proposals include traffic lights at Farnell Rd, no access out of Allfield Rd east onto Blackwall Rd, a new left turn bay from Blackwall Rd to Allfield Rd, a right turn lane from Blackwall Rd onto McMasters Rd, no right turn from McMasters Rd onto Blackwall Rd, and pedestrian lights south of the intersection.
MILK BEACH, SYDNEY
Sydney has somewhere in the region of about 100 beaches – both harbour and ocean, north and south – so it shouldn t come as a surprise to find there are still stretches of sand here untrodden by a million feet. Milk Beach is one of those locations, an inlet in a spectacular location in you-can t-afford-it Vaucluse, with views over the harbour to the bridge and the city skyline on one side, and a whole heap of fantasy mansions on the other.
There s only about 50 metres of sand here, so it s good thing Milk Beach is tricky to access: with no carpark or direct road link-up, you ll have to join the Hermitage Foreshore walking track from either Rose Bay or Watsons Bay. To find yourself a spot here for a swim and a sunbake is, however, well worth the effort.