‘It’s pretty scary’: Sunshine Coast residents fear storm surges as Bribie Island buffer erodes away
Successive cyclones have gradually worn away the northern tip of the Queensland barrier island, which shields coastal residents on the mainlandGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastJen Kettleton-Butler is on “a postage stamp of island” trying to rescue an echidna she calls Eddie.Wind roars in her microphone and the camera she holds pans from a public toilet that is disappearing beneath waves to a thin strip of coastal forest that, too, is being reclaimed by the ocean.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
Successive cyclones have gradually worn away the northern tip of the Queensland barrier island, which shields coastal residents on the mainland
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Jen Kettleton-Butler is on “a postage stamp of island” trying to rescue an echidna she calls Eddie.
Wind roars in her microphone and the camera she holds pans from a public toilet that is disappearing beneath waves to a thin strip of coastal forest that, too, is being reclaimed by the ocean.
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