Yep. Western Australia still.

Our SPOTD award went to the CALM ranger on-duty at the Gloucester Tree that day, working to collect the $5 entry fees for vehicles entering the park. When we showed him the Holiday Pass we’d bought instead of having to pay each time we went to a park, he replied that it was no good to him. We thought he meant that the pass was not valid at that park, although so far as we knew, it was invalid on one park in the state only, and this was not that park.

We asked him then what the charge was to get in, and he again replied the card was no good to him. Frustrated, Diana blurted out “so what is it that you want?” and he then explained that he got paid more out of the $5 per vehicle fee than he would get from the Holiday Pass $20 fee. Throughout the rest of the five minute conversation, he just kept muttering “that card’s no good for me, it isn’t, you know, no good at all” until we thought he had spent too long in the little 6-foot square ranger station.

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