A proud Aussie community has been left embarrassed at the “absolute mess” created near one of the nation's most popular beaches. Pictures shared to social media show the grassy area up from the Gold Coast’s famous Burleigh Heads has been turned into a field of mud following a two-day surf event. Local woman Cindy Amey walks up the hill at 6:00am every morning, and she was left “shocked” by what she saw this week.
With so many tourists in town for the Easter holidays , she’s worried what they’ll think of her suburb. “I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing, it’s horrific. The grass up there had been looking so good, they’d even relaid turf up there recently,” she told Yahoo News.
“Families go up there, and the view is fantastic. It’s a good place to go and have a picnic, but you couldn’t do that now, it’s embarrassing. If I arrived here on holidays and that was on my doorstep, I'd be wondering what's going on?” Another woman Lisa Evans said on Facebook that she feared no one would be able to use the park for months.
"Locals [are] throughly irritated and disappointed by the use & abuse of the park time and time again," she wrote. Deep tyre tracks and puddles of water can be seen across the hilltop, and many have complained the area had begun to smell like a bog. “It’s got that creek-like sewer smell,” one resident told Yahoo.
Dozens of Gold Coast locals have shared their frustration at the “trashing” of the hill on social media. “.
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