'Bloody disgraceful': Young 'grubs' ruin beautiful holiday spot
A caravan park has taken aim at young campers who “have no respect” after they left their rubbish behind at a campground.
Lake Navarino Holiday Park, almost 120km south of Perth in Western Australia, shared photos on Facebook of the mess they said belonged to a group of campers.
In the two photos, water bottles, beer boxes and what appears to be a tarp are seen among other pieces of litter scattered on the ground.
The holiday park lies along the Waroona Dam and offers various forms of accomodation – including camping.
“We had some lovely young campers that have no respect for our beautiful campgrounds leaving their rubbish behind,” the post said.
The holiday park also said the campground provided bins and rubbish bags for free.
“These people don't realise that if things are left like this there will be nowhere left to camp as they will be closed down,” the holiday park said.
The Facebook post quickly gained attention, garnering more than 400 likes and 170 comments in just six hours, with many people calling the campers “grubs” and “pigs”.
“Some people are pigs with no respect,” one man wrote.
“Very sorry to see this, Lake Navarino is a beautiful place,” another person wrote before suggesting logging the number plates of those who entered the campsite and passing on their information to police if they leave the grounds covered in trash.
A third person said the campground does take down the number plates, but because people could camp “anywhere” it was hard to track who was leaving the rubbish.
“Navarino's bush campground doesn’t have set camping bays, you just pick where you want,” a visitor said further down in the comments.
“So while there is a record of number plates that have paid for camping, that record doesn’t show which vehicle camped where.”
Another person said: “Bloody disgraceful, why go somewhere to enjoy it's natural beauty and trash it?”
The Facebook post did give a shout out to a local called Sean who helped with the clean up.
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