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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Joe Hinchliffe

‘It’s pretty scary’: Sunshine Coast residents fear storm surges as Bribie Island buffer erodes away

Passage of water between north and southern tip of Bribie Island
An uninhabited strip of Bribie Island has been dissected to the north and south by two successive breakthroughs – one by the wind and waves associated with ex-Tropical Cyclone Seth in 2022 and the other by Alfred in March this year. Photograph: Caloundra Fishing World

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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