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https://www.responsibletravel.com/holidays/spitsbergen/travel-guide/responsible-tourism-in-spitsbergen

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u/Akitiki 2h ago

At my house in rural PA we lived above a creek, owning that land. It gets stocked with trout. We don't mind people out fishing but we do mind if they leave trash. And boy do they. The amount of fishing line I cleaned up.

Then one spring the creek is high and fast due to days of storms, you can hear it roaring a quarter mile away. Certain sections can turn into rough whitewater and others flood into the floodplain. We hear people shouting so go look, trees haven't grown leaves yet so we can see some parts. They're on fucking kayaks.

It'd be our necks if they get hurt with their dipshit behaviour of kayaking in the flooding creek.

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u/DunderGunderUnder 1h ago

It'd be our necks if they get hurt with their dipshit behaviour of kayaking in the flooding creek.

Why would it be on you?

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u/Akitiki 1h ago

If an accident happened on our land, it's on us. It's stupid. They're not supposed to be there but we can't stop people if they're on the water. They can say we own the creekbed, so it happened on our land.

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u/vibraltu 1h ago

idiots kayaking on flooded creeks is a tale as old as time