Letters to the editor | November 9, 2018

By Letters to the Editor
Updated November 9 2018 - 7:44am, first published 6:00am
November 9, 2018: Your say on tourism development, investment
November 9, 2018: Your say on tourism development, investment

Yes to tourism, no to private development

RECENTLY I went on a bushwalk in the walls of Jerusalem National Park. What struck me while I was there was the world of natural silence that one enters when one walks into a national park.   Being able to hear the screech of the currawongs, the wind rising through the pencil pine trees, the sound of a creek trickling through the peat, how good is that? How refreshing it was to hear this mountain music, free from the mechanised noise that surrounds our day-to-day lives. How awful it would be to have the silence of this type of experience broken by the intrusion of helicopters whirling over, ferrying wealthy visitors to private enclaves within the park (The Examiner, November 7).

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