Take beach sand for kids sandpit

Is it legal to take beach sand home for a kids sand pit?

Anyone know of any good beaches around Perth metro to get onto with a trailer to get sand (have 4wd)?

Good one Mark.

To be honest, I was more worried about where to get access than the legality of it anyway

my dad got busted taking seaweed for his vege garden, and the stuff was clogging the boatramp at the time. I think it depends on the level of ranger danger in your area

White Hills , Mandurah ,easy access, dont know if it is legal though
Got a trailor myself for insulation in my pizza oven to keep the heat in

You live in Perth and you need sand ????????

Just dig a hole where your back lawn used to be.

In fact - just do nothing for 24 hours - well done, your whole yard is now one sand pit.

or try this

Taking beach sand may or may not be legal. It is certainly not ethical. If everybody did it how long would the beach last.

It is cheap enough to buy at your local landscape supplies depot or concrete supplies yard.

For $20 or $30 they can dump a half yard bucket in your trailer in 2 minutes flat.

You are not seriously considering shovelling that amount of sand UP into your trailer and then shovelling it out again into your kids sand pit. Sheesh.

It had to come. And yes, I am very much considering doing exactly that.

Lets assume that 80% of WA's 21,000km coastline is sand - that's 16,800km to supply sand for domestic sandpits. That's roughly 10m of sandy beach per Western Australian resident. I suggest you go to a landscape supply shop, buy a trailer of sand and head to your local beach and spread it over the full width of a 10m long section and then come back and tell us what impact it had. I'm guessing bugger all.

Besides, that's ignoring the fact that, despite the unprecedented surge in the use of sandpits that's bound to occur when people discover that sand can be got from the beach, it is highly unlikely that the use of sandpits is ever going to reach 1 sandpit per WA resident (me and my wife certainly don't plan on getting one, and my 2 kids will be sharing theirs). I would guess that less than 1% of the population (much, much less) is in the process of building a sandpit at any one time.

Besides, the landscape supply shop don't magically create their sand - the dig it out of somewhere using big, diesel powered equipment and then process it in what I can only guess is an energy and water intensive process. I think the environmental impact of me filling my trailer by hand at a beach is probably going to be less than paying a landscape supplier for it. And I need the exercise anyway,

I didn't ask the question in the search for some mis-guided moral judgement, just wanted to know how stealthy I had to be in my approach and where the best spot to do it was. Thanks for your answer anyway.

That's sick. Even more reason for me to clean the beaches up by getting rid of the filthy stuff.

dirtyharry, my place golden bay. My bore s#%t itself a few months ago so front and back yard is a sand pit. Back then i thought we will get rain soon so dont worry about getting it fixed for now. Good call d%#khead. If we ever actually get some rain here (can someone remind me what rain looks and smells like) my so called grass/lawn just may survive.

yes but whilst digging it up, the view can be much better
show me a landscaping supplies with bikini girls, tight hotpants joggers jiggling, a sunset, cool clear water and a pub within 100m

up our way the beach sand gets carted450kms to get here so its $140pt, or 160 for the good stuff, so people take it with them when they move house
before it was available in town , we used to go out to a certain old mine and dig a hole on the leewward side of the batterysands pile. it would then fill up over a year with windblown stuff that the fine clay dust had blown out of. that way you got rid of most of the remnant mercury and arsenic

If you're going to stuff around at old mines you may as well collect that mercury and run the sand thru it to get the trace gold out

kids sand pits have cat poo, vomit, dead lizards and broken Tonka trucks in them

Buggered if I would let my kids play at the beach after what the Doctor said