Allowing access to Wedge has really damaged the place. A party of 300 which ended in a murder is just insane. That crap belongs in Sydney or Melbourne burbs if not anywhere! My cousin has written her story about Wedge. The good old days the way I remember it. Enjoy http://wedgewa.com.au/new/wedge-tales/16-my-wedge-story-by-rachael-dawe
Sorry to correct you green room but a party that ends in murder doesn't belong anywhere in Australia.
Fact is though more people die from stabbings in the northern territory than car accidents .
You cant say that about Sydney or Melbourne.
I wasn't trying to say that a party resulting in murder should happen. My mistake.
What I meant to say was that this is the kinda stuff we see on the news in big capitol cities, not in isolated fishing communities. I could have used New York or Washington as an example but was using Aussie cities just to keep it close to home.
Anywho... recently a sealed highway went past wedge with a road to the shacks. Getting there took about an hour of slow driving along either the beach or by tracks behind the dunes.
We are seeing it all over Australia www.news.com.au/national/months-of-terror-the-king-hit-violence-killing-our-young-men/news-story/b6160ee2e1b61fe0cd96fb1eedbc8d97?net_sub_uid=6213440&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_medium=email&utm_source=News
One of my mates has a shack there, it used to be sooooooooooo nice to go and have a nice relaxed weekend! Then the bogans got 4x4 cars and started to go camping in the dunes and it was an all weekend of idiots running up and down the beach on dirt bikes with no exhaust. Now with the sealed road going almost in the middle of it it is unbearable won't spend another weekend there. Save wedge ............... yes............... bomb the road and that may help! The gov IMO could not close it so they are killing it with the access road!
Select to expand quotefelixdcat said..
One of my mates has a shack there, it used to be sooooooooooo nice to go and have a nice relaxed weekend! Then the bogans got 4x4 cars and started to go camping in the dunes and it was an all weekend of idiots running up and down the beach on dirt bikes with no exhaust. Now with the sealed road going almost in the middle of it it is unbearable won't spend another weekend there. Save wedge ............... yes............... bomb the road and that may help! The gov IMO could not close it so they are killing it with the access road!
Actually, the problems started when they shut down the Lancelin dunes for dune buggies and motor bikes.
As recently as the early nineties you could hack around almost anywhere on the Lancelin dunes and there were almost no restrictions.
Then, bit by bit, the dunes area was shut down and all the bogans moved to Wedge.
By about 2000, a long weekend at Wedge had become a motor gymkana with bikes and buggies blasting up and down the beach from early morning til late at night.
Sometimes, the next morning there would be the remnants of suzuki sierras and the likes which had rolled over in the dunes the previous night.
I'm against all the regulations they put on places like this but it's clear that without some regulations, the place goes to the dogs.
Maybe just make it a "Strictly no bogans" zone.
(Although that probably would have precluded me once upon a time. 
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I found the story difficult to read. Anyway that's progress for you. Build a bridge, seal a road, impose a bunch of rules and its paradise lost. Perhaps its time to move to another place where there isn't a sealed road going past.
Select to expand quotepweedas said..felixdcat said..
One of my mates has a shack there, it used to be sooooooooooo nice to go and have a nice relaxed weekend! Then the bogans got 4x4 cars and started to go camping in the dunes and it was an all weekend of idiots running up and down the beach on dirt bikes with no exhaust. Now with the sealed road going almost in the middle of it it is unbearable won't spend another weekend there. Save wedge ............... yes............... bomb the road and that may help! The gov IMO could not close it so they are killing it with the access road!
Actually, the problems started when they shut down the Lancelin dunes for dune buggies and motor bikes.
As recently as the early nineties you could hack around almost anywhere on the Lancelin dunes and there were almost no restrictions.
Then, bit by bit, the dunes area was shut down and all the bogans moved to Wedge.
By about 2000, a long weekend at Wedge had become a motor gymkana with bikes and buggies blasting up and down the beach from early morning til late at night.
Sometimes, the next morning there would be the remnants of suzuki sierras and the likes which had rolled over in the dunes the previous night.
I'm against all the regulations they put on places like this but it's clear that without some regulations, the place goes to the dogs.
Maybe just make it a "Strictly no bogans" zone.
(Although that probably would have precluded me once upon a time. )
What the?
The Lancelin offroad vehicle area is still open. WA is the only state with so many designated offroad areas and it is full of bikes n buggies every weekend.
The problem at Wedge is CUB's with stacks of money to buy these toys, and the general disgusting decline of society resulting in things like the king hit sucker punch phenomena, or 200 teenagers at out of control parties needing riot police.
If people didn't think it would spread to Wedge - the most remote area close to a CITY anywhere - they are dreaming.
We all go there for the remote wave, they go there because 'remote' means they can engage in criminal / hoon / etc behaviour. C0ckheads.
Select to expand quoteMark _australia said..
What the?
The Lancelin offroad vehicle area is still open. WA is the only state with so many designated offroad areas and it is full of bikes n buggies every weekend.
Yes, but it's a very small part of what used to be available for buggies and bikes, which was the total dunes area. It was huge.
A significant part of the dunes was loaded onto trucks and spread over paddocks in the wheatbelt.
Also, large parts of the dunes have been 'rehabilitated' with scrub.
The sand in the dunes at both Lancelin and Wedge is mostly powdered lime (calcium carbonate), so it's good stuff to raise ph values of acid soils.
Also, you can't camp in the dunes at Lancelin, whereas you could at Wedge.
Although I see even camping at Wedge is now prohibited according to the signs.
^^^ all that area was private property.
All that happened was the State Trailbike Strategy 10yrs ago (or whatever) made a legal defined offroad area and of course they made it all crown land.
There still is a significant area of the dunes that people use as offroad area when in fact it is private property
I think it is more than large enough so those going to Wedge are not being "pushed out there" by lack of access to Lano dunes.
Those who cause the problems are d1ckheads wherever they are.
And what is "Save Wedge"? Save for whom?
"Save" would be cleaning it up from people in general.
Tragic thing is 1 young man is dead and the other is probably facing 30 years imprisonment. Lets face it no winners. Just young folk out of control They wonder why they require "policing"
I was up there last year for new years and it was anarchy. Though a fatality would come from the reckless 4wding or death by trail bike.
There is some serious issues that require addressing
Its and extremely fun spot to visit but the scene up there on new-years is completely out of control.It didn't come as a supprize for me !
The new question is how much with things change up there now?
Select to expand quotepweedas said..Mark _australia said..
What the?
The Lancelin offroad vehicle area is still open. WA is the only state with so many designated offroad areas and it is full of bikes n buggies every weekend.
Yes, but it's a very small part of what used to be available for buggies and bikes, which was the total dunes area. It was huge.
A significant part of the dunes was loaded onto trucks and spread over paddocks in the wheatbelt.
Also, large parts of the dunes have been 'rehabilitated' with scrub.
The sand in the dunes at both Lancelin and Wedge is mostly powdered lime (calcium carbonate), so it's good stuff to raise ph values of acid soils.
Also, you can't camp in the dunes at Lancelin, whereas you could at Wedge.
Although I see even camping at Wedge is now prohibited according to the signs.
I've never seen any rehab in the dunes, that would be such a massive undertaking, and complete waste of time and effort I can't see anyone trying, not even the state govt?
Whilst the area of the dunes where the lime sand pit is is quite large it is insignificant compared to that whole dune system, and the amount carted out is insignificant. That big cleared area where the sand bogans set up near the main entrance is clear because the sand dunes themselves are shifting with the prevailing winds, not because trucks have been in there carting them away. All of that dune system has an owner of some sort, the limes sand pit is a registered mine, a massive chunk is actually private farmland, the designated off-road area is state crown land and the water authority have control of a big chunk adjacent to their bore field. The only ones that try and enforce their claim is the lime sand pit and that is purely for safety reasons, but dicks keep stealing the signs at the top of the face.
As Mark said, the 'designated' off road area is about maybe 1/3 to half of the dunes but pretty much all of the dunes are used by the bikes and quads and it's isn't actively enforced, the ranger patrols around down the bottom dealing with helmets and camping and stuff but only really goes up over into the dunes to help with a rescue.
So the theory that they have to ride at Wedge because they have been pushed out of Lancelin I think is wrong.
