By Jack Manning.
Courtesy of The Victor Harbor Times
On a wet and blustery morning last Saturday, a significant crowd gathered to see off the Dire Straits Tinny Tour from the Goolwa Wharf.
The River Lakes and Coorong Action Group, alongside the Conservation Council of SA and The Wilderness Society assembled a group of politicians and community leaders of all persuasions to call for urgent action to save the internationally significant Coorong.
A flotilla of over 20 boats set out on a 70-kilometre weekend voyage to Noonameena, the southern-most navigable point in the Coorong's North Lagoon.
The goal of the event was to draw attention to the fragility of the estuarine system, and there was strong support for the setting up of a Coorong Trust to help restore the South Australian icon to health.
Secretary of the River Lakes and Coorong Action Group, Elizabeth Tregenza said the whole Murray Darling Basin (MDB), as a complex interdependent system of rivers, lakes and wetlands was in dire straits.