google "plastic sea bird" and follow the text:
"Because plastic pellets are magnets for toxic chemicals like DDT and PCBs, they effectively become poison pills. Japanese researchers found that concentrations of these chemicals were as much as a million times higher than in the water. Plastics themselves can leach endocrine-disrupting chemicals like biphenyl.
Many of the birds that come to International Bird Rescue's rehabilitation centers are impacted by fishing line and hooks, discarded monofilament line that has wrapped around their limbs and wings.

Plastic water bottles take 450 years to decompose;
Fishing lines and nets can take up to 600 years to decompose; and
Plastic bags or balloons in the ocean are dangerous (they can look like a jellyfish meal to a sea turtle)."

Hi nicknamenick,

Yes, 100 acres is far too big and as you say if it's for retirees a maintenance headache. 500 m2 blocks with a couple of acres of common land would be a lot more sensible. I was looking for something in between a hairy fairy ECO village and an over 50's Manufactured Home Estate.

Hi Paul

They really are a lovely people, as you say, and so accommodating of the beliefs of others. I have sat with a group of locals and you would never know their religions, but have been Muslim, Hindu and Christian, without an iota of superiority or animosity towards anyone's belief.

I have been promoting the following video, it is about people from villages on the North slopes of Mount Agung. It is a mostly dry arid land outside the wet season, with regular crop failures, this forces many people into begging in the tourist areas. This is the story of a Swiss organisation striving to do something about it.

https://vimeo.com/193176912

Paul C
My bro-in-law had a planning agency and used to say "how much money do you want to lose?" Standards are rising , sewage and power are off the planet and the developer of my house-block went broke. Maybe a tower block on the footpath for 20 trendies with designated 5 acres wild bush for each contestant?

nicknamenick,

I think the problem is too many stupid rules and regs created by petty burocrats who think they know everything and produce nothing. Perhaps that's a different subject :-)

Billyd,

Thanks for the link to the video, it makes you appreciate how lucky we are but also how poor the wealthy really are. I think you will understand what I mean.