Travel, safety first!
In Australia there are many very primitive mountains and rivers, the scenery is very beautiful, attract a lot of eyes and footsteps, many people are to photograph the most special angle, often run to some dangerous places.
One of Melbourne's must-see attractions is the 12-disciple rock (Twelve Apostles). On the ocean road. Recently, the site's manager, Parks Victoria, had a big head, as they found many tourists crossing the guardrail to take pictures at dangerous cliffs!
In one of the photos, a father stood close to the edge of the cliff with a child who looked very young!
In another photo, more than a dozen tourists cross the guardrail and stand on the edge of an 80-meter-high cliff. Some people are taking selfies, some people are taking pictures for others. Among them, there are foreigners with blond hair and blue eyes, as well as Asian and even Chinese tourists!
Parks Victoria said that although "warning" signs have been erected everywhere to remind everyone that "the cliff is dangerous, do not approach, please stand in the guardrail, or you may fall off the cliff", but it seems useless to see visitors crossing the guardrail every day!
"every time we remind visitors not to go over the guardrail," said one tour guide, who often takes tours to Oceania Road, "visitors who don't go with the group usually don't stay in the guardrail as a matter of fact."
"for selfie's sake, they risked their own danger!"
"but what you don't notice is that most of the cliffs here are very unstable sand and stone, and it's easy to loose. The vegetation on the cliffs plays a great role in protecting the cliffs from collapsing, but people step around, the vegetation is bald, and the cliffs are more prone to accidents. "
Tim is one of the tourists who took these photos. He said he visited the twelve apostles last Thursday and found that many tourists had crossed the fence and no one had stopped them. He tried to find staff to deal with the situation, and found that only three, four of them were busy selling food and souvenirs and had no time to deal with the good.
This, Parks Victoria is also very helpless, said: staff not only to control traffic, clean garbage, but also to clean toilets, patrol everywhere, not busy! There's a serious shortage of staff here!
In the next few months, they will upgrade the guardrail to reduce their ability to cross it, a person in charge said. Crossing the guardrail without authorization will face a fine of $159!
The significance of guardrail is to protect everyone's safety, so I hope everyone should strictly abide by the rules.
Go out to travel, scenery is very important, mood is very important, but safety is more important, hope everybody in the safe situation, happy civilization excursion!