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Coastal campers move on from Cook Park


A mob of coastal campers who've spent the Summer in Cook Park have hit the road.

There's been complaints in recent months, but the change in the weather has made all the difference.

The mob raised concerns from organisers of the Australia Day celebrations in Cook Park in January.

Long-term Orange residents who've seen the campers come and go over the years predicted, very accurately as it turns out, that the mob would on their way by the first of May.


Numbers of the grey-headed flying foxes started to drop as the cooler temperatures started to arrive during the middle of last week. The temporary colony had settled in to the higher branches of trees along the southern border of the park, next to Kite St.

Regular park users says the last of the flying foxes had gone by Sunday.30 April.


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