AUTHORITIES reportedly ignored warnings that sea containers used as props and windbreaks at a beachside music festival would be washed into the ocean. A beachgoer told the Herald he’d personally warned Fremantle city council before last week’s three-day event at Sandtracks Beach at Rous Head, that the tide would take the containers.

Following a stormy Sunday, eight containers were taken and then washed ashore. The beachgoer, who didn’t want to be named, said it was a minor incident but it could have been avoided.

“All [the council] had to do was look at the tide charts and the forecast.”

Salt on the Beach restaurateur Ian Hutchinson says the mishap was an unfortunate epitaph for an otherwise well-organised event: “It was a really great weekend, absolutely no trouble or damage.”

by CLARE KENYON