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For years tourists have ridden boats through this sacred Australian natural wonder. A new ban will stop them in their tracks (www.cnn.com)

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The Horizontal Falls are one of Australia’s strangest natural attractions, a unique blend of coastal geography and powerful tidal forces that visitors pay big money to see up close.

But all that is about to change.

Located at Talbot Bay, a remote spot on the country’s northwestern coastline, the falls are created when surges of seawater pour between two narrow cliff gaps, creating a swell of up to four meters that resembles a waterfall.

For decades, tours have pierced these gaps on powerful boats, much to the dismay of the area’s Indigenous Traditional Owners, who say the site is sacred.

It’s not the only reason the boat tours are controversial. In May 2022 one boat hit the rocks resulting in passenger injuries and triggering a major rescue operation. The incident led to calls to halt the tours for safety reasons.

Although the boat trips have continued, the concerns of the Indigenous Traditional Owners have now been heeded, with Western Australia, the state in which the falls are situated, saying they will be banned in 2028 out of respect.

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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Strip the supernatural aspect out and just call it “important to the local culture”.

That's pretty much exactly what "sacred" means, yes. For the average westerner, religious or not, the term "sacred" smells of holy water created by someone in a fancy dress mumbling and waving their hands while for others it simple means "place of significance that should be honoured". These kinds of terms don't easily translate between cultural barriers even if everyone is, on the face of it, speaking the same language, see also e.g. the Native American use of the word "medicine".

Metalheads call the site of the Wacken Open Air festival "Holy Ground", and they have all the right in the world to do it. On the part of the people of Wacken you can be sure that they won't build anything on it, it's gonna stay a pasture -- a very well maintained one, the water management system is extensive to make sure rainfalls during the festivals won't turn it into a mudpit. Maybe, in case the villages around it grow together more, make some pathways through it and plant trees along the paths, but they certainly won't put a mall there. The vast majority of Wackeners, even if they don't partake in the religion of metal, don't mind a bit selling beer to the pilgrims so the site gets respected, just as the metalheads respect the site: They're cleaning it up perfectly each and every year. Right now it might seem a bit mundane, it's thinkable (if Wackeners weren't Wackeners) that someone would put a mall there, but give it 100 years of continued yearly ritual use and it'll become unthinkable.