00:0014 years of built-up sand and frustration.
00:08This is bloody embarrassing.
00:10As far as the state government goes, this is an embarrassment.
00:13My children enjoyed fishing and swimming and jumping off the jetty.
00:17My grandchildren can't.
00:19And that's the frustrating part about, for all the locals,
00:22we just want our jetty back to be able to use it.
00:25Beaches shrinking or eroding is an issue right along the West Australian coast.
00:30But in contrast, the Port Gregory beach is growing, locking out lobster fishes.
00:36Things are changing, there's no doubt of that.
00:39And the sand, when we get our big tides, the sand washes into the sand june.
00:43It's happening all along the coast.
00:45Draws it back into the harbour.
00:48And it's just formed a point around the jetty.
00:52They've been forced to use dinghies to ferry catch and bait to and from their boats and the beach.
00:57It cost us more.
00:58We had to go and buy a bigger dinghy to accommodate carrying the bait and the dinghy and stuff like that.
01:04We're never used to before.
01:06And, of course, the baskets of craze, they've got to be unloaded out of the boat into the dinghy,
01:11come into shore, put it on the trailer, drive up to the car park and then load it into a truck.
01:17So then we're losing quality of our crayfish because it's not straight off the boat into the truck.
01:23You have, um, crayfish are very vulnerable to wind.
01:27I mean, it's ridiculous.
01:28They, they, they don't, you can't leave it as it is.
01:32Either remove it or fix it.
01:35The WA government owns the jetty, which is managed by the Department of Transport.
01:40It sits like a platform on the beach, but was once popular for work and play.
01:46And yeah, it was used by between five and seven boats most of the year.
01:52Plus we had a few boats that had come in to get fuel or seek shelter.
01:56It's been 14 years now since it's been used as a jetty, as a commercial jetty.
02:04Port Gregory is best known for this pink lake on the outskirts of town.
02:09We do have tourism here.
02:10You know, like people might say we don't, but we do.
02:13We had 450,000 people tourists through last year that have got nowhere to come.
02:18They can't come and fish off the jetty anymore.
02:21So we get a lot of traffic parking on the side of the road, people walking up and down the side of the road.
02:26And they tend to come to the lake and turn around and leave.
02:30Sam Hayes says a functioning jetty would add value for visitors.
02:34They'd stay longer.
02:36Something for the kids.
02:37And not just the kids.
02:38The adults love it.
02:39You can fish from it at night.
02:40You can fish from it during the day.
02:42Managing the ever-changing dynamic WA coastline is an issue local and state governments are battling with.
02:50Locals have a few ideas on how to fix their jetty.
02:54Such as removing the silt through dredging or cutting a channel to the ocean or extending the current jetty into deeper water.
03:02They've either got to fix it or remove it.
03:05And it won't be cheap removing it.
03:07And it won't be cheap fixing it.
03:09So whichever way you look at it, they're going to have to spend money here to do something about it.
03:15So they seem to have plenty of money for other areas, but not here.
03:20rikebs of peace ofzu.
03:21So it's just a bit harder.
03:22So not to have to use your
03:23confidence to do something about this.
03:25It's a bit harder to enjoy getting your collective joy out of you.
03:27By the way.
03:28I'm here.
03:29By the way, I encourage you to try to make a whole happen,
03:30To help you with your own world.
03:31I'm one of them.
03:32I'm not contre You.
03:33I'm one of them.
03:34It's one of them who have a major job.
03:35I'm one of them who have an act.
03:36I'm above you.
03:37I'm zona Radio City.
