"It was really exciting to catch 150 waves in four hours. That was out of this world."
Four years back, three-time world surf champ Mick Fanning, whose real estate, beer and wellness investments can be counted in the tens of millions, threw his name and and an undisclosed investment into a $300 mill wave pool and golf resort on Queensland’s Gold Coast, the biggest tourism development on that wildly developed strip in over forty years.
Developers are gonna turn the old Parkwood Village into the The Palm Valley Gold Coast Resort, dressing the landscape in an upgraded 18-hole golf course, a brewery, two hundred apartments, a chapel for those with an inclination to piety, and a wave pool featuring Endless Surf tech, the same tank that just opened in Munich.
The development is at the far northern end of the Gold Coast in the otherwise dreary suburb of Parkwood, back off the ocean and inland from down-at-heel Labrador, which is also the home of Peter Drouyn.
The three-hundred mill build is now gonna cost four-hundred mill and a couple of the eight-storey towers are gonna be iced and turned into fifty-eight villas and the first hunk of dirt is going to be tossed in July.
The managing director is the former golf pro Luke Altschwager.
Mick Fanning, said he was made an offer too good to refuse, as they say, by Altschwager, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the other Australian wave pool developer Andrew Ross.
As far as the Endless Surf tech, Fanning describes it as the best in the biz, something your ol pal DR has been told by industry insiders.
“The [tech] is probably the most user-friendly and that it just doesn’t stop it, just wave after wave,” says Mick. “It was really exciting to catch 150 waves in four hours. That was out of this world. Surfers will travel anywhere to catch a wave. We jump on boats, we chart tiny, dodgy planes and sleep in the dirt just to get a good wave.”
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Ain’t never gonna happen.
Hey Strayan, just between you and I, this could be racist, but since it’s just us two reading….
Why do Arabs wear robes?
Sheep can hear a zipper from 100 yards
So you’re saying you let a horse fuck you? Dude.
Strayan really devolves sometimes… everything is going steady then boom
I wonder if this is the vision Fred Kanga and Shaun had when they dreamed of taking surfing to the mainstream ?
Can DR reach out to Kanga or the Zaffa and solicit their views.
Oh yes I can, very good idea!
can ya ask ziffy about his connection to Casey waserman??
As Mick could say it’s the future. Wake up you fuckn hippie no marks.
what a shit forecast, why do I look?
Tides wrong, sand is fucked
Think i’m going to move to Micks wavepark condos
Long forecast is pretty grim around these parts right now. Drive north.
The tears of an impressionable lad when he finds out that his hero’s are fake as the waves that they build.and beers that they brew. The despondent levels of disappointment and regret flooding the poor souls eyes wet with emotions.
Then as the lad realizes he has a rash on his ass that can be cured, hope. The epiphany that even personal glory and bests await inside the chlorine king maker. A new star to pray to each night before putting on the jammies that scrape his chafed asshole, a reminder that pain is life.
The cycle of life in a nutshell
Can’t wait to read Long Tom’s review of the wave and chance sighting of strayan cunt booking a membership!
It’s interesting that those who are most opposed to tubs seem to or claim to have never been to a tub. Can’t knock it until you try it.
What’s wrong with chasing a white ball around a manicured park?
It’s epic and anyone carrying on against it have never taken the time to learn how to do it but, I was referring to the whinging about wavepools from those who have never surfed one.
Its just like surfing. Something you will never perfect and can gradually get better….. or worse at. Might be having a shit round/surf then you hit that one shot or get that one wave that keeps ya coming back. Perfect for flat days.
I’ve been.
I was more referring to SC, pretty sure you have documented a tub trip. They sure as hell aren’t the greatest thing ever but, they have their place in the arsenal if they are using a good tech.
I havent tried cancer but i still dont rate it.
Once in a blue moon one of my wealthy clients will ask me if I want to play a round of golf at there exclusive country club. I always say yes. When I am done golfing with no waiting every hole, drinking, and eating on there tab I think fuck this is living. If I ever came into some money I am going to… oh wait… no all these guys are a bunch of rich fuck wits. These would be my friends/social circle now. NO THANKS. Back to the local muni I go.
Depends on the club. They aren’t all like that.
They are around here.
You wanna play the Valley Club, barefoot?
You seen the refreshment cart girl?
Down.
You can’t complain about “rich fuckwits….NO THANKS” and then want to play the most exclusive club in the area.
Which one are you a member of?
Bushwood
Lol. Well played.
You like how Hip went silent once being called out on the in for Valley Club?
lol. That’s the holy grale of CC’s to get into.
That’s what happens when there are only about 200 members with almost all from old money.
They need new members, place is a retirement village
It’s capped at 225 I think. No new members allowed without 100% yes votes from current members and that’s after someone opens a new spot instead of passing it down. Bottom line is nearly impossible to get a membership and you’d be shocked at who they have rejected.
They don’t like Hollywood peeps
Like LACC, no entertainment money
They don’t like celebs, athletes, or famous people of any kind. Those go to Birnam.
I dunno, Birnam is a Irvine clone
Please spell Grail correctly when we sign in
I will. I promise.
I’ll work on it, patience
Ojai Valley Inn GM owes me a round too
You got the in? Place is pretty plush and haven’t played there yet. Hard to beat the cart girls at Sandpiper though.
i work there occasionally and have no access, but the course is empty, play 2 balls easily
When I get an invite, will let you know.
They will kick you out for playing 2 balls. It’s nice but the rules are strictly enforced. I’m working the invite from a few angles.
was told Sandpiper is going to be renovated
He’s dropping about $130 mil into it but still in planning phase and won’t close for another 1 1/2-2 years and then closed for a year or so and then too expensive to play.
Not sure where “here” is but it must not be the same as my “here”.
You better start taking screenshots Com.
Just seen Al Cleland lay down a PROPER ‘QS quality wave out at the Bowl.
Lucas Messina also had a quality heat.
Edit: some really good surfing in this contest, for these type of waves. It’s like Test cricket. Good to have on in the background
Edit 2: the heat winners are killing it. All of them have good things to say about the waves and conditions. These people are ripping.
Waves look like shit. All windy and lumpy.
Yes. Last 3 heats have gone to shit. Normal for the Caribbean. Onshore 95% of the time.
It’s now rubbish.
Edit: waves got back good again, as the wind backed off. Two ladies just won heats and their heights have to have been 5’0 and 4’10, at a maximum. These chicks are tiny.
Ella McCafftey rips and some Chait lady just got a decent barrel. Overscored a fair bit. Judges must be telling them to look for the barrel.
That’s Barbados in one sentence, your second
arent Dean and parko two of the biggest cvnts to surf with? just burn everyone?
Dean is
Pool Shark
It’s ok, you don’t have to surf them. In fact you don’t even have to read about them.
Money enables all sorts.
Nah mate, let them soak up the excess so we get fewer clogging up our lineups.
Heck, from an outsiders view looking in, Mick turned into the Aussie Kelly a good 10+ yrs ago.
Probably had that side of him hiding in plain sight his whole life…
I was at a boardriders comp at homebush and everyone was frothin!!
Plus hot tubs with the ladies!!
If he uses that cream juxtaposed with Aryan white, like in the house…I won’t go
You’re Mick?