All connected by a beautiful Fury Road.
It has been some time, now, since Surf Lakes has been in our shared consciousness. The giant plunger, which can be found in beautiful Yeppoon in northern Queensland, was instantly the most striking of the wave pool technologies with its not subtle nod to Mad Max.
But aesthetics, alone, rarely win the day and other, more functional tanks from Palm Springs to New Jersey soon took our attention.
Fickle, fickle people we are but look! Surf Lakes is back with an exciting new plan, just submitted for approval, to expand into “the ultimate surfing getaway!
According to the proposal, the development would be split into two stages with the first including a solar farm and campground to be connected by a Fury Road. Then a hotel, aqua park including scuba center, hotel and Thunderdome would be added.
The local Seq Q Boardriders president was very thrilled, telling ABC news, “We always like to surf in the ocean but as we know the ocean doesn’t always cooperate. Having a wave pool and being able to access that on a regular basis definitely is going to help young surfers improve and keep everyone else happy when there’s no waves in the ocean.”
Surf Lakes’ ownership group expects, once fully operational, that the “ultimate surfing getaway” would plunge $260m yearly into the local economy.
The chief executive of regional tourism and development organisation Capricorn Enterprise, Mary Carroll, said, “Wave pools all around the world have attracted a new clientele or visitor market. This is absolutely what would happen in this destination, whereby this wave pool would attract visitors not just domestically but internationally.”
Just imagine how many more will be attracted when Surf Lakes hosts one of the 18 World Surf League Championship Tour Australian stops in three years.
Very cool.
“Step into our gift shop, and find a face mask that fits your mood.”
Might make the move early. The current real estate market explosion on the ‘surf coasts’ of south eastern Queensland has rendered my lifestyle centric life unfeasible. Due to (and I’m generalising here) fuckwits from down south not being able to afford to buy secondary/holiday homes in their own states, they are buying up around here. As a result there are no rental homes available for less than about 60% of the income generated by a double income family.
If we move up there now, I might be able to claim local status and a powerful position when the hoards of surf deprived refugees branch out in search of the precious. By then I will have established dominance and will be sitting on an uncomfortable throne of boards, occasionally throwing a scrap of wax to a scrounging wave orphan.
I don’t see a ‘thunderdome’ on those drawings.
I do see a Cricket Oval though, so perhaps they’ll also have cricket matches there too…
I think they call it “adventure play.”
Won’t that devolve into Cosplay?
the last time something like this happened in Yepoon it was blown up prior to completion. it had the largest pool in the Southern Hemisphere.
You are stupid. Look at your face. It’s dumb. Wait……what were we talking about?
Oh that response works in most cases.
That’s how shit ends up on a T-shirt.
“$260m annually”
Pretty optimistic.
What’s the Surf Ranch annual revenue, $10-15 million?
Nevermind the wave pond. Thunderdome should be the main attraction. “Two men enter, one man leaves”. Imagine if Italo and Connor settled their differences that way. Exciting!
I think surfers v judges would be better, get some real passion going.