My family, and two other families went out this Saturday to a fairly remote, but not deserted section of bush. We took All out kids, (between us about 8) we took all the appropriate pick nick supplies and so on. The kids ages ranged from about 6 to about 15. We also took trailers with between us about a dozen motor bikes ranging from kid 50cc minibikes to full on moto cross bikes. This section of bush is remote and has been frequented by local kids and us for decades. There is a pick nick area with a BBQ, a dam to go catch yabbies in it is a great place for the family. We all have a country background so we pick up our rubbish, most times we leave the place better than we found it.
There is a little motor bike track for the littlies, close to camp a couple of hundred meters around. My youngest who is almost blind rides a little quad bike around it. His distance vision is about 20 meters and he is flanked by his little mate, a girl of about 10 on her little 50cc and a couple of other littles. All the adults watch protectively over all the kids like they are there own.
There is about 3 main circuits you can do for the bigger kids. The shortest is about 18km, the next just under 40km, and the last about 90km.
We can take the more competent of the littlies on the 17km, but the 40km one is an enduro track with some killer hills that get pretty spooky for even the adults, so only the better of the kids go with us on them.

Now to the greenies.

There are recently a few properties scattered here and there amongst the bush, all only hobby farms and weekender's, only about 15 to 20 acres each. Frequented only every other weekend by stupid city people. They come from Melbourne, by 5 alpacas and a sheep, bring there stupid city mates with them and suddenly think they are related to our Australian Pioneers. And of course since they bout there land a couple of years ago and with there two weekends a month, they object to us being there. I mean, this has only been used this way for 20+ year. But here is the cruncher. There solution to the "Motor Bike Problem" is to cut down trees (even nice green living ones" and put them across the tracks. But hey they are clever, they don't just do it anywhere, they cut them down just over the crest of hills so when you crest the hill on your bike you smash into them. When we go out with the kids it is like a school excursion. We do the head count, the instructions for getting lost, the whole deal. We have an adult or two at the front, going pretty hard to give the better kids a run, and an adult or two at the rear, helping out the novice kids. It is a fantastic family day. Good clean harmless fun. Back for the lunch time BBQ, a swim in the dam and so on. But on the short track we counted 5 trees across the path at the most deadly of places, and i reckon another 4 on the 40k track. I would like to catch them and belt the crap out of them. They are land holders with plenty of rights. But they don't have the right to stop people riding bikes on government land, by trying to kill or mame them this way. I reckon they should be caught, and charged with attempted murder. Some one should take them out and show them how much fun it is to crest a hill in the bush at 40kph front wheel off the ground and see a log across the track 20 meters in front of you with 8 kids and 3 adults following behind. It is this kind of idiot greenie behavior that gives responsible greenies a bad name.
Anyone else had similar experiences.

Just as an ofter thought, If you have never been to Australia, it is a little hard to understand the distances involved over here. There are places in Australia that you can be 1000km from the nearest town in any direction. Some places we can go, are just thousands of square miles of bush. We have a cattle station in the NT that is bigger than the whole state of Texas. So what i am saying is, we are not talking about a patch of trees 400meteres by 400 meters in suburbia. We are talking about driving an hour out of where i live, into pretty much nowhere. There is a smallish town of a few hundred people about 30mins drive. But it is well and truly bush, not suburbia.
For you city folk, it is so remote, you don't get coverage on your mobile phone and they definitely wont deliver takeaway there.

We don't really have that problem here mate Countrys to bloody small...

But what these peole are doing is bang out of order and bloody dangerous....