The image shows the sign on the footbridge over the Denmark River, as recently modified.
The bridge is within 200 metres of where the river flows into Wilson Inlet, adjacent to a very lucrative “holiday park”.
Once one crosses the footbridge, one is “out of town”, and on walking tracks through bush, forest, and wetland edges.
The Denmark River was so-named in 1829; for the preceding many thousands of years it was known as Kwoorabup – a place frequented by wallabies.
It was one of many Australian rivers devastated by the over-clearing of their formerly-forested catchments.
Through to 1987, its waters became progressively more saline.
However, thanks to reforestation, the Denmark River then became progressively healthier.
Reportedly the first Australian river to record such a dramatic turnaround, the Denmark River in 2012 reached average annual salinity levels within World Health Organisation standards for humans’ drinking water.
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