Vounteer rescuers are having to launch smaller vessels from public ramps to navigate the effects of a widening breakthrough on Bribie Island's northern tip.
Photographer Doug Bazley, who has been capturing aerial images of the area since 2017, said he was shocked by how much Golden Beach had changed.
Commander Roger Pearce said it has become very difficult for his crew to cross the main Caloundra bar at low tide."Dead low tide, and we're landlocked completely," Mr Pearce said. "The state scientist ... has said all along that they will let nature take its course and we understand that completely.Roger Pearce would like to see sand dredging along the Pumicestone Passage.Sunshine Coast Council has a Bribie Island Breakthrough Action Plan in place, with dredging scheduled next month.
"Nature didn't give approval for homes and properties to be built along the foreshore," Mr Bazley said."I would have thought at least a rock wall would have been put in," he said.A state environment department spokesperson said the organisation had been monitoring northern Bribie Island through satellite imagery and ground surveys.
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