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Nov 4 09 In Byron Bay Today

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Did It Get Ya Goat, ? A little story; back around 2003 there was a big effort to remove the feral goats off Cape Byron. I know they’re feral but I was sad to see them go. I always liked the way they’d startle the odd trekker with a well timed leap from the bushes. Yet as I say they are feral. Of course if they’re feral, doesn’t that mean we are too? But I digress. There are those that argue for the goats, saying they eat the introduced weed, Bitou Bush, which they do. But the goats don’t belong at Cape Byron anymore than the Bitou Bush does, or so we’re told. So what’s the answer? I don’t even know if there is one. I mean let’s face it, animals and insects have been jumping continents ever since humankind took to the seven seas millennia ago. Plants have been jumping continents long before that, as seeds in the bellies of birds. So where do we try to restore the balance back to, the primordial ooze? There is no easy answer, indeed rounding up a few mountain goats on terrain as treacherous as the cape is obviously not easy either. Because here we are six years after they’ve all been removed, and we’re staring face to face with one of the light footed blighters up at the cape today. And you know although it’s not the environmentally correct stance to take. I just couldn’t help myself smiling at the one Goat they didn’t get,.
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