If you saw any of the pontoons washed up on Teewah and K’gari (Fraser Island) beaches over the past week you wouldn’t be the only one trying to figure out how to best use them to the region’s advantage.
Talks of securing them into the Double Island Point Lagoon or towing them along the beach for a diving platform were a couple of tongue in cheek suggestions.
The pontoons believed to be from as far away as the Brisbane River landed at the Coloured Sands and at Eli Creek last Saturday.
Although leaching foam from the structure, the tops were in surprisingly good condition considering how far they have travelled leading some to think no one would miss them if they were reused.
While debris and foam from the pontoons has been sighted between Yaroomba and Marcus beaches on the Sunshine Coast, there has also been a quantity on our Cooloola Coast beaches.
“Volunteers and caring community members are already collecting similar debris along the beaches of our region especially between Rainbow Beach and Double Island,” Lindy Orwin from Cooloola Coastcare said.
“The Rainbow Beach residents who walk their dogs or exercise on the beach are fantastic at always picking up litter. However large debris requires vehicles to collect, and the volunteers are onto that.”
With the coast feeling like they got off lightly with the recent weather events, it was a stark reminder of the velocity and force of the recent catastrophic floods across South East Queensland.
