12:00a.m. 2nd February 2008

| By Alan Lander

Tony Pearson is predicting the lighthouse beacon may be lost or at least damaged and the North spit will be breached on Bribie Island.

Going, going ... but not yet gone.

The lighthouse at Bribie Island is rapidly losing the ground around its base, with local environmentalists reporting massive sand losses over the last four weeks through weather and tides.

Fears are held that a sandbar will build, sealing Pumicestone Passage off.

“The island lost another 30 feet of sand,” environmentalist Tony Pearson said.

“It’s now down to nothing.

“It will start a new sandbar – no doubt.”

He said any tidal flow of over a metre will continue the damage – and two-metre tides were due shortly.

Greg McKean of Night Eyes environmental group said it was no longer possible to stand behind the lighthouse’s posts and the edge of the bank “or you’d fall in”.

The Environment Protection Agency has continued to say the erosion is a “natural occurrence” and refuse to interfere.

Caloundra MP Mark McArdle said a letter inviting the infrastructure minister to take a first-hand view of the erosion was being sent, and premier Anna Bligh was aware of the situation.