Hmmm, Time for one of my 'unpopular' views again.
It is inevitable, absolutely inevitable, that the broads will change. They have changed since the 60s when I first knew them, and they will continue to change. Nobody but nobody will be able to stop that. What we can do is try to influence the direction and the extent that this change will take.
To my mind there are only two feasible directions. Either commercialisation or conservation. I see no other option.
With commercialisation we will see more money spent on waste disposal, moorings footpaths as well as GRP swans, gaudy plastic slides and no doubt cruise through MacDonald's. Everything that goes into the broads will be done to make money. The other option is for the whole shooting match to become a great big nature reserve, probably run by the RSPB with naff all access to anybody without a title.
We have members looking back at those halcyon days of the 50s/60s forgetting perhaps that their parents were doing exactly the same thing. we can take some comfort though, given that our children will also be doing just that!
The broads will not go back to how they were any more than they will stay as they are, but each and every one of us has to decide in which direction we want it to go, and be loud in voice in our wishes.
Me? I'm for the commercial direction. Pedellos and popcorn over sediment and Sandford.