How much you gonna pay for a date with the Big Plunger?
I do admire the bullish, can-do attitude of Queensland wavepool company Surf Lakes.
Despite not having a functioning pool, 0r having created a wave over two feet, we’ve read the announcement of their first commercial pool (Gold Coast, opening 2020, waves with “eight-foot faces”) and, today, a charity auction where two people can join the licensees/shareholders at the testing tank in Yeppoon, Central Queensland.
There’s a catch.
You gotta be in the Wollongong area in two days time for the KidzWish annual barbecue, which will host the former world champion surfer Mark Occhilipo who is also a Surf Lakes ambassador and minor shareholder.
KidzWish is a charity in the area whose goal is “to provide support, love and laughter to children in our community who are sick, disadvantaged or have a disability.”
Tickets cost between one hundred and five hundred dollars to get into the Wiseman Park Bowling Club, Gwynneville, on March 1, where the Surf Lakes package will be auctioned.
Now tell me.
You’re at the barbecue, you got a little ink in your veins and you want to take on the Yeppoon Plunger.
Presuming it gets going again, how much you going to throw at a day there?
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If I hear 8ft faces and wavepool in the same sentence again, I’m gonna throw-up!
I would need a money back guarantee to bid on this given their last efforts
if its rusting mining equipment abandoned in a pond that gets your heart racing then there are plenty of options to score for free (or at worst a fine for trespassing).
Well, I guess it’s fair to say that top bidders want be QUIK or Billy founders….oh no worries we have the new crew VAL.
Weird optics on this auction stunt. Chance of a Lifetime to win a day at Surf Lakes; the date determined when either licensee/shareholder is there. You pay for the flight and accommodations. KidzWish sounds like a great charity, not great enough for Aaron’s attendance,.but at least he’s sending his organ monkey Occy, who’s position as a “minor shareholder” makes him uniquely qualified to be laughed at by kids. Back to what you have the chance to win. How the fuck is anyone supposed to coordinate their schedule, their friend’s schedule, and the little notice of available dates and actually be able to make mere chance into a story for one’s lifetime? Seriously.
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Wiggs.
Get yer chef’s hat on.
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I reckon Yeppoon could do with a grand opening.
“WPS. opening ya-poon soon”
I’d buy that as a sticker.
I get the feeling Wiggs doesn’t like schnitzel, as he hasn’t replied.
Probably busy ironing.
Obviously, it’s the more pressing issue. Eat your heart out Bickerton.
Lotta fucking time-wasters out there. Hippy druggies probably going out surfing or some stupid shit. They aren’t pulling their weight here, dammit.
Do they think I come here for my fucking mental health or something?
To be honest this looks like a commercially viable option. Multiple waves per dunk, multiple wave sets, surfers paddle back to the lineup, beginner to advanced in one pool, retrofit to another pool or lake. Easy close up viewing of surfers with stands built over the “reef” if needed. Overview of the whole park easily attained by walking around it, rather than the 700m long kelly pool. If they can get it up to size it’s gonna be epic
I concur Aaron 👍
i’d pay exactly less than the airline baggage fee for my high volume sweet potato
just rent a soft top when you get there. oh wait. its yepoon.
Derek there are close to the source rumours on a KS Wave tank going in at Mudgeeraba, Gold Coast. All the big wigs had a meeting on a site earlier this month with council. Do some digging. If so, its literally across the highway to where Surf lakes are proposing.
That’s code for another Andy Irons laundromat on the Goldy !
I’d pay untold amounts for a piece of Yeppoon
Ye’poontang?
Us poor cunts miss out again.
Probs be 2 dragons meatheads going.
You could be a dragons meathead, bexy.
I’m sure. All you gotta do is love the dragons.
You got the other bit wired, bro.
Sea Eagles are real mate not some Chinese fairy fantasy
Been called worse.
“broncos fan”?
That’s about the worst you could say to me.
NRL been all screwed up since the amalgamations of the clubs yonks ago.
Yea, I understand why they had to happen but it was a better comp back then.
More tribal ….
I’ve been off it for a long time now. But I can still go watch at Brookvale and it’s still a great local vibe. We are pretty much the last old school suburban team left.
Fuck Steve Matai was a sick player and such a hard cunt.
Remember Sally dropped Trent when he went west. She is committed to the red and white only.
I think she was getting hammered worse than any wave could.
And what harm did two Dragons meatheads ever cause?
Sexual assault seems de riguer when faced with a social situation
Was de riguer de bellin’s mate?
Whatd he do can’t keep up?
Let me guess
Good on em. They must be 100% confident they’ve got the engineering sorted.
If they haven’t then this is egg-face all over rover.
Wet and wild never disappoints.
You can follow some real sorts up those stairs
Heh, yea. There were some sights I wish I never saw … and others I’d pay to see again.
That’s all over for me now, thank Christ. Kids are too old.
Went there once on the last day of the season, before they shut down for winter. The surf was shit, but I had a wettie, so was comfy. It was a bit of a wet and windy day too, so low crowd numbers. Easy to get on the rides, etc. But the best part was because they were shutting down for 3-5 months, they had to get rid of all the stocked food, so it was all “Zip over to the burger bar to get 3 for the price of 1 burgers”. Stoked.
No doubt.
I’m a big Jamberoo fan also.
They are surrounded by mining engineers, that new ram will be so over-engineered it’s not funny.
They are surrounded by mining infrastructure… that ram is going to be so over engineered it’s not funny.