"I'm a member of the Wellstead Progress Association's Coast Care Committee. We managed to get the track down to Boat Harbour done up but the track down to the mouth of the Pallinup has been done up about three parts of the way down. But the other end of it is something awful. Because Cape Riche now costs you $5.50 a night and the same at Miller's Point, there are people who won't cough up so they're going to places like Boat Harbour and the mouth of the Pallinup on this side as alternatives. Well, you should see the track. I know the salmon fishermen there near the mouth of the Pallinup and I also know two farmers on the side of Boat Harbour Road and they said that this last spring and summer-autumn they have never seen so many vehicles backwards and forwards every day. Now we're trying to get some more money to do up the other end of the Pallinup river track."
Jeff Ellett

"The people at Chillinup, Michael and Penny, it's been fenced and the growth that's starting is absolutely incredible, even with the dry season that we've just had. The jam trees are all coming back and the everlastings of course are up there, they're beautiful and have stayed there all through. The floods didn't even wipe them out. I think that's the main thing I've noticed. It's just wonderful to see all that happening."
Ruth Moir

"If you have got some features that are quite outstanding as the Pallinup River is, that even in the hard times it gives you something to take your mind or focus off the hard times and sort yourself out a little bit. I'm sure that when you've spent a day being close to something that's absolutely quite pristine and beautiful the problems diminish down to about a tenth of what they were before you started. There's no two ways about it in my mind and areas like this really need to be preserved simply for the sake of our mental health in our communities, if for no other reason, but of course there are a million other reasons as well. Just on that one I had some English visitors come out a couple of years ago as well and they wanted to camp on the farm. I took them out to the swamp that's got a lot of different coloured spider orchids and it was in the spring so they were in full bloom. Well, you would have thought I'd given these people a million dollars, they were just blown out of this world that they could go to a place. I'd just got them a few mallee roots so they could have a nice little campfire, honestly I have never seen people so happy in all my life. They took all these photos of the spider orchids and sent some down to me. So those sorts of things they do give a lot of people a huge amount of pleasure and it's good, pure pleasure. I think we've got to preserve it forever, there's no two ways about it.

Learn about the river and so on and so forth and then take steps to start to reverse the detrimental effects. It won't happen overnight but I'm sure if we set our minds to it with a heart and a will that it can be done. Then it would be great for my great grandchildren to be able to visit a river that's pretty well pristine. It would be great if we could start to set something up for our grandchildren and great grandchildren that they could go back and visit that in as near as possible to its natural state. If I could do that I would feel I would have most probably contributed to mankind on this earth I think."
Charlie Hick