Alcopop bubbles along for Cup

Daily Telegraph

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Reporter: Prue Adams

ABC Online

prue adams: He's retired to Goolwa near the Murray mouth and has become vocal in a group called Lakes Need Water. They're concerned the cropping of the ...

More than a mouthful

WA today

Goolwa , less than an hour down the road, is also worth a visit as it was the first town in Australia to be classified as a "Cittaslow" town or slow food ...



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Has anyone stayed at Birks Boathouse Goolwa?
Q. The website looks great but when you get here your looking at a faded out run down boat shed with outdoor toilets surrounded by mounds of dredged out swamp. Your promised absolute water frontage on a beautiful deck but you get a deck with no water and swamp. The so called Private Jetty is public and people walk pass peering into your window so the blinds need to be closed all day, the place is a dump , anyone been there?
Asked by birks boathouse goolwa - Tue Aug 26 23:51:49 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. No I haven't but I do walk past it (and no I don't peer in the windows). The 'swamp' is the Murray River which is in drought at the moment and this is what all the calls from the Goolwa and Lakes people is about that there is not enough water being released into the Murray River and it is affecting businesses like Birks who rely on tourism.
Answered by Mundoo - Wed Aug 27 23:48:49 2008

Birks BoatHouse at Goolwa, is it good or bad?
Q. I stayed there and found it was really bad, no water as promised, it was a like a toilet block with decking but no water, the website showed it being so nice but when I arrived it was misleading and really disapointing, would not go there again, who has been?
Asked by birks_boathouse_goolwa - Wed Aug 27 05:30:08 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I wonder if the drought has an effect on the presence or absence of water?
Answered by iansand9876 - Wed Aug 27 06:26:40 2008

Has anyone stayed at Birks Boathouse Harbour in Goolwa?
Q. The website looks great but when you get here your looking at a faded out run down boat shed with outdoor toilets surrounded by mounds of dredged out swamp. Your promised absolute water frontage on a beautiful deck but you get a deck with no water and swamp. The so called Private Jetty is public and people walk pass peering into your window so the blinds need to be closed all day, the place is a dump , anyone been there? Its in South Australia
Asked by birks boathouse goolwa - Tue Aug 26 23:39:30 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Yeahh, I have it was like that when I was there to, we were very upset, they said the water levels are down but I said you should have told me that whenI booked, no refund, $500 down the drain.
Answered by yahwhoooon - Tue Aug 26 23:47:48 2008