Most locals opposed the Seal Rocks visitor centre, right from day one (it was originally a private development on public land). The old little kiosk was perfect and understated. It's a huge white elephant, forced onto a local community by a government hell bent on development at any cost. It was handed over to the Phillip Island Nature Park after its financial melt down, without a budget to do anything constructive with the space. So sad to put something so enormous in this beautiful wild place. Silver gulls breed here in spring and summer, Great Whites circle the seal colony at Seal rocks and penguins can often be seen during the day time if you look carefully, sometimes you can sniff them out. Hanging Rock is facing a similar unwanted development right now.
by beckw (score: 0|4) 3414 days ago