"There is no holiday this year…"
From midnight, Coolly time, the Superbank is going to be shuttered, courtesy of the Gold Coast City Council.
Come tomoz morn, the joint, theoretically, at least, will be empty for the first time in living memory. It ain’t gonna be that great, so first day of the jackboot, no one’s missing a thing.
It ain’t the only beach getting shut down, either.
The Gold Coast Council will close all beaches from the The Spit to Surfers Paradise as well as that pretty long stretch of sand in Coolangatta that stretches to Kirra in the north.
All the other beaches from Coolangatta to Surfers will be open for locals, but closed to non-Gold Coast residents.
Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate said while locals were doing the right thing, there had been some visitors at beaches not following social-distancing rules.
“Unfortunately, over the weekend, out-of-towners are descending on the Gold Coast in mass numbers and I fear that this number will increase over the Easter weekend,” he said.
“Therefore, as of midnight on Tuesday, The Spit, Surfers Paradise and Coolangatta beaches will be closed [to everyone].”
Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll said beaches would be “heavily patrolled” by police.
“Not only those beaches [that have been closed] — all of the beaches as we go into Easter weekend,” she said.
It’s unclear, at this stage, whether Kelly Slater, who owns a holiday apartment in Palm Beach and who has been in self-quarantine there for the last week, will be bulldozed out of his bed after midnight as a non-resident.
More from the ABC,
Commissioner Carroll said people who owned holiday homes should remain at their “principal residence”.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk reiterated people were not to treat the Easter break as a holiday.
“There is no holiday this year,” Ms Palaszczuk said.
Cancel Christmas.
Imagine that! Not far fetched either. At least the buying presents and obligatory stuff thats annoying
just when I’m starting to get good at pressing the tiny x on the Metallica dude with the walrus mustache, they come up with this stupid cooking eggs thing that sneakily swoops in at the perfect moment for my thumb to hit it, yeah, I don’t like it!
So Sneaky!
like a… virus
all cops are bootlicking scum
Is it that big of deal?
Hours drive south and you can surf lennex head which I found a much better wave
Is it possible that Tazzie is the best state to be living in as a surfer atm?
NT definatly the worst.
Eh? Canberra? Ignoring the subtleties of the Constitution.
Umm the closure only includes Coolangatta Beach from Greenmount to the Kirra groyne. It doesn’t include Snapper and Rainbow Bay.
Ssshhhhh!
What’s the blimmin’ point of it then ? Just to keep holiday makers from sitting too close to eachother on the sand ? Seems like a waste of time…
Exactly. To keep the hordes from brissie descending over Easter weekend I reckon….
Here in Australia, it’s the people sitting too close to each other on the sand who are driving the authorities a bit nutty. Not the surfers.
Though we are talking about a nation where just this past Sunday, a bunch of car owners thought it would be a good idea to hold a mass rally in an empty Qld shopping centre car park. Then when the police showed up, a whole bunch of them decided to drive across a paddock in a getaway attempt. And got bogged. Resulting in 75 fines of $1000 each.
Australia! Sunburned one day, stupid the next.
Hahahahahahaha CLASSIC !
Oh well, at least there’s another 75grand in the coffers…
Just looked at the cam of 100+ guys out, so no wonder why. To all surfers in places where we can surf, if it is crowded enough that you cannot be 15 feet from someone (make it look good for the authorities with extra distancing), do not paddle out.
Full moon sesh will be interesting..
Sweet we can look forward to more QLDers in NNSW. NNSW councils are already talking about closing our beaches because of QLD blow ins and backpackers. Seven Mile Lennox looked like Fraser Island on the weekend, over 50 x 4×4’s stretched the length of the beach predominately QLD plates. Colossal fuck up by NSW government, QLD border closed to new south welshmen. QLDers can move across freely. Time to start sending fakkas in
Cunts at Dbah just tagging up qld platers with a black stripe haha
Have seen in the past, a tyre taken off a QLD car and thrown in the river at a certain breakwall. Things could get interesting if the NSW government doesn’t intervene and seal the border to QLDers. Crew are getting grumpy..
Love the convict Australian mentally. It’s so born into you it’s part of your personality!
Fight each other just as your government plans for you to do!
Draws attention away from there failure…ruby princess anyone?
Fuck off Tappa ya grub
It’s a great time for wannabe fascists
Yeah well he raised a convicted rapist for a son so his life advice is kinda fkn irrelevant
https://www.news.com.au/nat…
Fuck. What a piece of shit!
No excuse under the fkn sun hey..
Yeah, he deserves more than 7 years.
It’s highly probable he now knows what it feels like to be molested
Could be worse, he could’ve raised a Catholic priest.
Would certainly take Palmy over Florida currently.
The dominant narrative along the east coast seems to be that it’s blow ins ruining it for locals, and I could argue the same for Newy.
But as someone commented so beautifully on my recent write up: you aren’t stuck in traffic, you are traffic.
I can’t see the rule ‘waves for some, but not all’ working. More shut downs imminent, I’d say.
Hopefully it’s more about the Easter weekend…. then once we are thru this the weather will get colder and no one will want to come. But after 2 weeka inside, half of Brissie and the inland would be here this weekend if it were open.
Fingers crossed. Hope you’re doing well too mate!
Alright, here’s another pearl of wisdom…
You’re worrying about the wrong things