Now, my journey with the Freedom Camping Act began back in my local government days, when the pressure was on some of our special sites around Westland that were being fouled by the actions of a few people who were camping without access to toilet facilities, and, every day, I would travel along State Highway 73 and State Highway 6. Also, living in a rural area, it became abundantly clear that the pressure on some of our pristine sites was going to destroy the very thing that our visitors came to see and enjoy, and that is clean, green New Zealand. So I sought the support of Community and Public Health, and they undertook to provide me with a report. After surveying every layby, every pull-off point, and every picnic area along the length of the State highways in Westland and at other significant points like at rivers and lakes—and their work involved visiting every site during the off-peak season, noting what they saw there, and taking photographs—they repeated that exercise during the peak tourist season, and the bottom line revealed what most of us expected, which was there was a human health issue that needed to be resolved. 