We already have Dizzy Lamb, we don't need another theme park!

Yeah but Dizzy Lamb closed and improved by becoming paintball. Imagine how awesomely good this new place will be once it is a paintball joint


I note the website says very little, and has obvious typo/grammatical stuff going on like "Perth become a world destination" (world class perhaps???) so I do wonder just how professional the whole project is?

On the positive side, seems like about half of the park is water, which is a good idea when it is in about the hottest place in the whole metro area. Add a casino and strip club and it is bound to succeed.

We had a cable ski park in Perth, spearwood (I think) last I heard they were trying to raise prawns in the lake as a sideline.
Not long after that I heard it closed up.

Perth needs more than a Theme park, IMHO theres feck all for locals never mind tourists.

With the high cost of labour in WA, i don't think this project will go ahead. You'll be forking out a months salary to take the kids.

FFS someone build some reefs/groynes that create wedges or are irresistable to swell. There is a heap of coastline between Mandurah and Bunners that could use a little tweaking. Theme park...........we are getting a new sporting stadium, 500 more poker machines at the Casino and Fiona Stanley Hospital. Hows about some reefs?

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Hamsta said...
FFS someone build some reefs/groynes that create wedges or are irresistable to swell. There is a heap of coastline between Mandurah and Bunners that could use a little tweaking. Theme park...........we are getting a new sporting stadium, 500 more poker machines at the Casino and Fiona Stanley Hospital. Hows about some reefs?

Yeah I'm up for that! That said the multi million dollar artificial reef in the UK was a dismal failure! They had to rip it out in the end.

Why the built one in Cott is beyond me, only catches big west swell on a low tide that only happens a few times of the year

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doggie said...

Zed said...

Hamsta said...
FFS someone build some reefs/groynes that create wedges or are irresistable to swell. There is a heap of coastline between Mandurah and Bunners that could use a little tweaking. Theme park...........we are getting a new sporting stadium, 500 more poker machines at the Casino and Fiona Stanley Hospital. Hows about some reefs?

Yeah I'm up for that! That said the multi million dollar artificial reef in the UK was a dismal failure! They had to rip it out in the end.

Why the built one in Cott is beyond me, only catches big west swell on a low tide that only happens a few times of the year

Yeah I think their computer modeling just doesn't seem to work very well. I wouldn't have thought it that complicated. Look at a few reefs where there are decent waves and try and replicate it. There are obviously a lot of variables, but to have artificial reefs built at great expense and then not work is a real failboat considering the amount of $$ spent on the design and the serious smarts some of the design guys would have had.

If they dropped a small groyne in along Tiggs or Scabs the sand would build up either side and bazinga, instant bank/s

If only it was that easy!! [}:)]

Like I said in another thread I must be dreaming? cos it can't be that hard.

The correct angle for a SW swell (which is what we usually get) so it is a peeling left hander - easy.
1m swell breaks in 1m of water so - easy.

Build a reef at correct angle 1m deep in 'average 0.5-0.8m tide.
another 2m deep a bit further out
another 3m deep a bit further out.

Voila! done.

It is a pile of WASTE dumped in an offshore location, so with some basic planning it would be cheap as chips. But noooooo, the Govt had to commission studies, a mock up in a UWA water tank and cast up 1000 concrete triangles that tesselate well in 3D - all taking 3yrs plus........... when 2 boats, a few tonnes of bricks and concrete waste and 10 volunteer surfers would have done it in a week for free and it would have worked better. I don't think I have ever seen it break.

Perth IS a theme park.......Bogan world!

The old dear farm of Paganoni was earmarked for a theme park, just off the freeway, easy to get to. As normal, north of river get a sniff, just near election time too.