I was walking in Kanuka Brook the other day and was very disappointed to discover it has been covered in blue paint. From its intersection with Glenbrook Creek until the pass that goes up towards Red Hands Cave, there are blue dots at a maximum spacing of ten metres. Sometimes adjacent rocks at a spacing of 1-2 metres are painted. At one point the track splits into two possible routes for around thirty metres and both routes have been “helpfully” marked. I don’t understand why someone would do this – how hard is it to follow a track that stays on the same side of the creek and is always within about ten metres of it? It has not been done terribly recently (the paintwork on some dead logs is starting to decay), but it wasn’t there the last time I walked that way in February.
I noticed a previous post re. similar vandalism on Lindeman Pass: http://bushwalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=23086 Have any solutions been discovered for cleaning up these sorts of problems?