Boat trailer light bars

Expensive way to fish for being too lazy to hook the lights up. Just checked the fine starts at $343 a set of submersible trailer lights is cheaper.

Police are only doing their job, if the boaties want to break to law, then they pay the consequences

They have been doing the same in Weipa lately as well

Not a new thing. The portable boats that travellers have will have portable clip on light bars. No excuse not to use them.
When I was living in the dongas at the Wanderer's Caravan park at Lucinda while building a project up there in the 90's when the old van boys where whinging that they got done by the local bobby for the same thing on the way to the Dungeness ramp.

I paid $120 for a wired up light board... probably in for a bit more than that in Karratha

See them doing it all the time. Leave the van park or cabins with no trailer lights. Not very smart thing to do regardless of the distance. Many of the small portable/collapsible trailers are unregistered as well. Only themselves to blame.

Just posting an update from Karumba….

They have posters around and in the toilets and showers in the caravan park advising about this and for those that get caught….they only have themselves to blame and no excuses there is ample warnings around the town at both Karumba and Karumba Point.

Well I call nanny state. Enforce a law if it genuinely endangers life or property, otherwise forget it,.