Very good news for Sydney's chlorine shredders…
A few years later than expected, but better late than never etc, Urbnsurf are loosing the bulldozers on their second Australian wave pool, this time at Olympic Park, fourteen clicks west of Sydney.
Construction of the Wavegarden Cove at the three-hectare Hill Road site begins in July, with an estimated build cost of fifty mill, double what it was gonna cost back in 2016.
Yoga studio, skate ramps, a rooftop bar, a swingers hot tub, and the place is going to be open in the pre-dawn all the way through to midnight.
Two-fifty jobs during the build, one fifty when it’s open.
Gates open in the summer of 2022-23.
If you live in Sydney, and y’dig wave tanks, this is very good news for several reasons.
One, it ain’t easy to get a seat in the Melbourne pool, it’s been that popular, and if you want to get some chlorine turns, tubs, you gotta coordinate cheap airfares with availability of sessions. The current booking system is pretty clunky and does y’head in when you’re hitting airfares/pool sessions simultaneously.
The water temp in Melbourne is insanely cold, a couple degrees less than the ocean. Summer is bearable in a short-sleeved steamer, but winter, oowee, five-fours, booties, little hats.
Urbnsurf, Sydney, brings warm water and considerably more sun.
A win and a win.
Can you surf it sans leg rope?
Asking for a hipster longboard riding dickhead in Byron bay
Just saw this photo. Needed somewhere to put it and I don’t have many IG followers.
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Good
Wonder what direction this one will face
North south, but which is the stern, which is the bow is yet to be clarified. How would you build it? Facing south so it’s offshore in a summer nor-easter or north so y’clean in the winter souths. To win, Bondi or Manly?
I think I’d build a pool that wasn’t at the whim of the wind
I think a roof will blow their budget some more
Doesn’t even need to be a roof. Just higher walls
Damn the poverty to hell!!
More firsts in the first world!!!
“One, it ain’t easy to get a seat in the Melbourne pool, it’s been that popular, and if you want to get some chlorine turns, tubs, you gotta coordinate cheap airfares with availability of sessions. The current booking system is pretty clunky and does y’head in when you’re hitting airfares/pool sessions simultaneously.”
Could not have said this any better. They need some UX on board for sure. Also their board and wetsuit booking does not work at all. You just have to take whats available on the day. No pre-booking available.
The booking system is absolute garbage. It’s been like that since the get-go. I don’t understand why they haven’t fixed it.
Norton anti virus is so shit.
Yeah, I’ve given up a few times while trying to book multiple pals, airfares etc. But the pool, the experience, real good.
The matrix is now even more wonderful