Community voices

I've been walking Kings most mornings since 1994. I never really thought about where the salt goes until I saw the campaign, and now I can't stop thinking about it. Every wave. It just goes straight out.

We put filters on our stormwater drains, we put fences around the dunes. It does seem strange that there's nothing at all between the beach and the water.

I taught science for thirty years. Every year we'd evaporate seawater in a dish, and every year the salt was still there at the end. It doesn't just disappear. It has to go somewhere.

Surfed Kings my whole life. Didn't think I'd ever support a wall on it, but I read the fact sheet twice and honestly it makes sense. I'd rather lose a bit of the beach than keep doing nothing.

I teach swimming four mornings a week. The number of kids who come out of the water rubbing their eyes is something I've noticed more and more.

My daughter asked me why the ocean is salty and I didn't have a good answer. I signed the petition that night.

Nearly every stormwater outlet I ever worked on had some kind of trap on it. The beach has nothing. Never has.

My grandkids learnt to swim at Kings. I want their kids to be able to learn to swim there too, in water that's no saltier than it is now. Is that really too much to ask?

People keep saying 'it's only a bit of salt'. That's what they said about everything else too.

Children swallow seawater. That's just what they do. Nobody seems to be asking how much salt is in that.