it is blocked and has been for a fair while

its still possible to get there mate just gota find a track. theres a few still around especially just past pipidini or get on the beach from jindalee

cheers for that guys saves me treking it there to find it blocked. Is it easy to find the tracks or complicated not from around the area so dont know my way around very well. or got any other suggestions for good beach fishing around that area?

quinns beach or yanchep

you can 4wd on both of those beaches? think i know where the yanchep one is. thats the lagoon entrance ay? trying to target some sharks..

get on the tracks up at pipidinny but a few mates that frequent the area have said the rangers are heavy at the moment

handing out instant fines for being on the beach and a fine for each dog you have with you. apparently your are not supposed to have your car

within 100 metres of the beach,

Yep rangers have been patrolling pretty often lately, some wanker rangers also told me you wern't even allowed on the tracks as it was private property...

Think they were just sick of people driving back onto the beach after they left

Best bet would be up at two rocks but good spots to park and fish are kinda few and far between.

Ref the comment on the beach access, re vehicles 100 metres from the beach, has anyone got the local regs on this.....

I recall the episode of the "banning of access" down at Pemberton, which was reversed and the signs removed after either Rosenfeldt or Cusack took them on and won. below

It was interdepartmental thuggery between a couple of Govt depts with no basis in law. Lock it up, lock them out, Fences signs posts etc all removed thanks to people challenging for their rights.

I would like to see the applicable sections of whatever act they are fining people under, is it the Shire of .....Wanneroo?  they have never had any issues in following the law, have they....

This is part of the lefroy brook saga;

First 7 of 7 paragraphs shown An illegal pipeline built over a pristine brook by a West Australian Government agency is likely to be removed, reports The West Australian (26/7/2001, p.4). The South-West Development Commission built the 450m pipeline through prime fishing spot Lefroy Brook, near Pemberton. It was originally meant to run alongside the brook as part of a tourism development.

Environment Minister "appalled": Environment Minister, Judy Edwards, said she was appalled at the situation and had asked Minister for the South-West, Jim McGinty, for an urgent report. Edwards said costs associated with it would be paid by the commission. "I am seeking advice on what punitive measures can be taken … prosecution is one of the options on the table."

Heritage tourism development: The pipeline is the first stage of a heritage tourism development recreating Pemberton's hydro-electric turbine which used water from the brook to power the town from the 1920s to the 1950s. Western Angler magazine managing editor, Ian Stagles, said the commission had destroyed one of the area's most valuable tourism assets in its attempt to create another one. "Pemberton is the focal point of trout fishing in the State, we do not have that many streams in the South-West that hold trout," Stagles said. "Now you cannot use (the brook), the pipeline is so big and so obstructive."

One man's eyesore, another's revenue raiser: WA Trout and Freshwater Angling Association vice-president, Harry Vosper, said the pipeline was an eyesore which had not only made it impossible to fish but also ruined the appeal of the Rainbow Trail walk, which was popular with tourists. But, Manjimup shire president, Keith Liddelow, said the council had supported the project because, as a working hydro-electricity model, it would raise extra revenue to be put back into tourism projects. "I am surprised it has created this much attention, there are a lot of other opportunities for trout fishing near Pemberton," he said.

Note how we are now extremists..... and they continue to try to lock up and develop excluson areas even though we only actually utilise approximately 10% of the Australian Coastline.

Please note: This is an extract from Hansard only. Hansard extracts are reproduced with permission from the Parliament of Western Australia.

CORRUPTION AND CRIME COMMISSION BILL 2003
Introduction and First Reading

Bill introduced, on motion by Mr J.A. McGinty (Attorney General), and read a first time.

The original wooden plant was built during the early settlement of Pemberton. The Institution of Engineers Australia and the South West Development Commission championed the project. The funds that would be generated by the project starting up again would be put into tourism in the town, which was a very good concept. Guess what happened? Somehow the project was not managed properly. The project company put a big black polythene pipe smack down the middle of the Lefroy River right in the middle of Pemberton. Everybody said that it was an abomination. The local reference group, which had a lot of greens and environmental members, asked why they could not build a boardwalk on the top of it and camouflage it rather than shift it. A few extremists had the ear of the Minister for the Environment and Heritage and the Minister for Peel and the South West, and the decision was made to shift the pipe at a huge cost. The pipe was cut up and stacked in a big heap. Guess what has happened? It is still stacked up in a big heap today. That is why the State has surplus budgets; projects that should have been completed have not been completed. We can all see the rain falling outside. How will that project be finished between now and the end of the financial year during some of the wettest months of the year? Members talk about the black hole, but this is the black pipe. It started off as a very good project. Had the project been managed properly and the pipe camouflaged on the side of the bank, by now the State would have a project that would be generating money through hydro-electricity being put into the grid. Instead, it is a stack of black pipes over one metre in height right next to the rainbow trail and the trout hatcheries on the doorstep of the town. Surely somebody should grab the project and make it work.

The beach and the dunes from Jindalee all the way to Yanchep is Nature Reserve. All the land from about 100m(in some areas more in some areas less) from the beach to Marmion Dve is Private Property(set for Development). You would probably need to find out what the local Council/Shire(Wanneroo) bylaws are for actually driving on the Nature Reserve beach strip, you might even find they have none but still issue fines because no ones challenges them. Generally Nature Reserves are managed by DEC but not to sure about this one.

think ill save the hassle and stay away from pippidinny area and try somewhere else. Cheers for the info though saves me few hassles! might even head south