Brutal.
It seems like forever since the world’s greatest surfer Kelly Slater stole poor little Adriano de Souza’s thunder and revealed the future of surfing. His perfect manmade barrel, peeling and reeling on demand, man in tower pushing button and materializing. Our collective jaws dropped, knowing that it would be only a matter of time until the prototype, in Lemoore, would be reproduced in many better places like Palm Springs, Miami, Oklahoma City, etc.
Except zero have been built.
Oh, the dream ain’t dead, tanks are popping up here and there but no not one utilizing Slater’s patented plow.
And now, in a vicious slap upside the head, it has been announced that Mark Occhilupo’s Surf Lake is set be built in Texas.
Surf Lakes is coming to Austin, Texas. Staying true to the old saying ‘everything is bigger in Texas’; this freshly inked project is set to be the biggest surf park development on the planet.
With a 12-acre Surf Lake at its centre, surrounded by sandy beach, boardwalks, restaurants, hotels, retail shopping and residency, the 400 acre ‘Pura Vida’ high adventure community will be located just south of Austin’s international airport, 20 minutes from downtown, and 15 minutes from the new $10 billion Tesla Gigafactory, (which will employ 20,000 people).
With the land secured, along with zoning, water, and wastewater entitlements, ground-breaking could be as early as mid-2023. With a Capex of roughly $1.3 billion, Pura Vida is on track to be the largest integrated wave pool development in the world.
The land was purchased by local developers seeking to position a Surf Lake as the centrepiece of their high adventure, mixed-use retail and residential community. In addition to the Surf Lakes centrepiece, other high adventure additions will soon be announced for the Pura Vida community.
Could there be any better fit for a Surf Ranch than Texas?
Imagine the gorgeous cosplay available to World Surf League CEO Erik Logan. Where do you think “cowboy” ranks on the list of his childhood dreams?
More as the story develops.
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Will there be a homeless section ?
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Word … nothing to see here… keep going south or north on I-95
There’s also a wavegarden planned for Houston.
This guy loves to cut down Kelly. He sounds a bit jelly to me, bet maybe it’s his way of complimenting him. Nobody is going to be able to build something like that when we’re in a recession. Buiding material is already sky-high. And no train,no wave. Occy’s balloon bouncy wave thingy sucks compared to Kelly ‘s anyway. Big pipe dream. Find another way to cut down Kelly. How’s that for a vicious slap!
You can see most of the park in an episode of Van Go on Magnolia Network. The guy is designing a van to sit near the beach in the park
There’s a high adventure community behind my local Port Hueneme, CA shopping center. It costs them nothing and evidently no permitting required for wastewater, general waste, wasting away, and getting wasted.
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original man-made wave machine…
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Unfortunately it was really plagued by half-life issues.
cesium, caesium 137 is omni-present…I measured it in the SaMo toxic air study previously posted…we’ve been (swimming) breathing in it since 1942 (Wiki)
Caesium-137, along with other radioactive isotopes caesium-134, iodine-131, xenon-133, and strontium-90, were released into the environment during nearly all nuclear weapon tests and some nuclear accidents, most notably the Chernobyl disaster and the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. Caesium-137 in the environment is substantially anthropogenic (human-made). Caesium-137 is produced from the nuclear fission of plutonium and uranium, and decays into barium-137.[24
You can try sticking that thing wherever you want but we all know it won’t be as good as doing it in Yeppoon
Wave pool articles are the gift that keeps on giving to you and Yeppoon, surfads.
I thought Costa Rica was already the ‘Pura Vida’ high adventure community?
pay per view split screen potential? Kelly surfing Lemoore and at the same time (+ 2 hours) Occy surfing Lake…One hour heat, best overall wave…
ELO can take full credit. That is, if he’s around that long…
Highly doubtful this comes to fruition. Recession will be in full swing around the time this gets under construction.
Call me when it opens. So many “inked deals” and prototypes and very few that actually become something.
Didn’t WSL buy the pool that was previously open in Austin? And then shut it down permanently? That seems like the exact opposite of developing wave pools.
I read about one that had the Gielseman bros onboard in New Smyrna Beach at I95 and SR44 about two years ago, since then…🦗🦗🦗🦗
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….. 🦗 🦗 🦗 ….. ah sh!t
ELo’s cowboy dreams are ‘Brokeback Mountain’ adjacent.
WHOA! Knowing ELo can’t quit the dream I immediately wonder if I can carry my .45 on a belt while surfing?