{"id":48600,"date":"2026-04-30T13:22:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=48600"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:22:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:22:38","slug":"tourists-overrun-australias-most-instagrammed-street-driving-locals-to-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=48600","title":{"rendered":"Tourists overrun Australia\u2019s most Instagrammed street, driving locals to the brink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/04\/30\/894d9da7-9136-487b-8fce-2a56ce19b49f_4d8b5267.jpg?itok=QJqz2MlH&amp;v=1777522856\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Viral posts of an Australian street dubbed the country\u2019s \u201cmost beautiful\u201d have enticed coachloads of visitors to a picturesque seaside town \u2013 and locals have had enough of it.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Just a two-hour drive south of Sydney, Gerringong is much like many other photogenic hamlets along <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Australia<\/span>\u2019s east coast, with multimillion-dollar properties set against stunning views of the azure blue sea.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But recent posts on Instagram, TikTok and as far afield as China\u2019s RedNote showing the town\u2019s Tasman Drive have left residents fuming that their little slice of paradise has turned into an internet sensation.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt\u2019s getting beyond a joke for a small country town,\u201d Peter Hainsworth, 81, said as tourists frolicked on the rolling hills nearby.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cYou\u2019ve got people who are trying to do three-point turns, they\u2019re standing in the middle of the road taking photographs, they\u2019re leaving their rubbish.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cEveryone\u2019s fed up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Nearby, tourists posed in the middle of the road for selfies to the fury of a sweary local resident on a bicycle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/australasia\/article\/3351946\/tourists-overrun-australias-most-instagrammed-street-driving-locals-brink?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viral posts of an Australian street dubbed the country\u2019s \u201cmost beautiful\u201d have enticed coachloads of visitors to a picturesque seaside town \u2013 and locals have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[12247,21690,27,21689,2037,21688,310,5593],"class_list":["post-48600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-australias","tag-brink","tag-driving","tag-instagrammed","tag-locals","tag-overrun","tag-street","tag-tourists","wpcat-4840-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}