Windsurfing Around or Close to Surfers Paradise

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mauiboy
mauiboy
NSW
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NSW, 52 posts
12 Apr 2010 11:21pm
Gday Boys and Girls

Heading up your way next week and thinking about throwing the gear in the car. Any good flat water sailing spots around surfers paradise? I was looking on whereis and noticed hollywell looks like a descent body of water.

Anyway your thoughts would be helpful, and i don't mind a little drive for a good session, so go crazy. So lets keep out fingers crossed for the wind gods.

See you on the water
Haircut
Haircut
QLD
6491 posts
QLD, 6491 posts
13 Apr 2010 10:28am
courtesy of swoosh

hope this helps

A = Shearwater Esplanade

B = The Train

C = KFC


shearwater esp. is fun and gets the best wind, but it's best when the wind is against the tide, and an outgoing tide travels south at the Shearwater

B & C offer more water than the map shows, and aren't so affected by current

VanillaSky
VanillaSky
QLD
6 posts
QLD, 6 posts
13 Apr 2010 5:09pm
Or go accross for some waves... windsurfing on the main beach at surfers is also pretty good... well i think so.. sometimes its very flat with no waves.. :) but I like the waves more.
evlPanda
evlPanda
NSW
9207 posts
NSW, 9207 posts
13 Apr 2010 5:13pm
... or Hollywell.

I know, I'm becoming a Hollywell fanboy.

Just watch the tide direction for anything north of the seaway. Goes in and out the seaway so you can derive from that. Lots of sandbanks everywhere at low tide. Watch that too. blah blah blah...

...The easy way is to just post on here before you go. Locals will know best. You'll always get a reply within an hour or two, usually.
KenHo
KenHo
NSW
1353 posts
NSW, 1353 posts
13 Apr 2010 5:24pm
evlPanda said...

... or Hollywell.

I know, I'm becoming a Hollywell fanboy.

Just watch the tide direction for anything north of the seaway. Goes in and out the seaway so you can derive from that. Lots of sandbanks everywhere at low tide. Watch that too. blah blah blah...

...The easy way is to just post on here before you go. Locals will know best. You'll always get a reply within an hour or two, usually.



Where's Hollywell ??
Dylan72
Dylan72
QLD
687 posts
QLD, 687 posts
13 Apr 2010 10:34pm
What happened to the train at The Train? I'm sure there was an actual train there, but on StreetView(tm) I only see a train painted on a toilet block!
Haircut
Haircut
QLD
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13 Apr 2010 10:45pm
no never, you were just imagining things
mauiboy
mauiboy
NSW
52 posts
NSW, 52 posts
13 Apr 2010 11:20pm
Thanks for the locations boys.

I'll be up Tuesday with the kit and am eager to hit the water. If you see someone power jibe past you, i'll be the one behind him, lol. Come and say gday

Cheers
greenleader
greenleader
QLD
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QLD, 5283 posts
13 Apr 2010 11:20pm
i'll have what dylan is on!
Haircut
Haircut
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QLD, 6491 posts
14 Apr 2010 1:12am
mauiboy said...



I'll be up Tuesday with the kit and am eager to hit the water.

Cheers


Did u have a ezzy sail? i think i spotted you
mauiboy
mauiboy
NSW
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NSW, 52 posts
14 Apr 2010 4:56pm
Haircut said...

mauiboy said...



I'll be up Tuesday with the kit and am eager to hit the water.

Cheers


Did u have a ezzy sail? i think i spotted you


Nope, next Tuesday.
sausage
sausage
QLD
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14 Apr 2010 5:15pm
Dylan72 said...

What happened to the train at The Train? I'm sure there was an actual train there, but on StreetView(tm) I only see a train painted on a toilet block!


I'm with Dylan on this - I thought there was once an old 19th Century steam train in that park that kids climbed all over during my late eighties sojournes to the Coast (albeit by the time we had arrived lots of alcohol had been consumed so my memory cannot be relied on in this instance). Greenleader being a local of many years may shed some further light on it.
Gestalt
Gestalt
QLD
14969 posts
QLD, 14969 posts
14 Apr 2010 6:58pm
as i understand it but may stand corrected.

train was removed. i htink council saw it as an insirance risk or something like that.

then there was a public outcry......

so they painted a train on the toilet block that is beside where it used to be.

very GC!
Ian1
Ian1
WA
129 posts
WA, 129 posts
15 Apr 2010 7:05pm
sausage said...

Dylan72 said...

What happened to the train at The Train? I'm sure there was an actual train there, but on StreetView(tm) I only see a train painted on a toilet block!


I'm with Dylan on this - I thought there was once an old 19th Century steam train in that park that kids climbed all over during my late eighties sojournes to the Coast (albeit by the time we had arrived lots of alcohol had been consumed so my memory cannot be relied on in this instance). Greenleader being a local of many years may shed some further light on it.


I'll have what sausage is on...............lots of alcohol that is
brad1
brad1
QLD
232 posts
QLD, 232 posts
15 Apr 2010 9:33pm
I remember playing on the train when I was a youngen.
I guess when it was rusting out they put a fence up around it. Years later they removed it.
The train was there because there once was a train line from Brisbane to the Gold Coast. The line terminated at the end of "Railway Street" hence the name.
The railway stopped in the early 70's
Gestalt
Gestalt
QLD
14969 posts
QLD, 14969 posts
15 Apr 2010 9:49pm
yeah, i used to play on it also brad.......

damn council!!!!!!!!!!

i say bring back the train!

that and merry go rounds! have you noticed local councils quietly visiting local parks and sanitising the kiddies play equipment!
brad1
brad1
QLD
232 posts
QLD, 232 posts
15 Apr 2010 10:31pm
Bring back the Train !
greenleader
greenleader
QLD
5283 posts
QLD, 5283 posts
16 Apr 2010 1:26am
we used to pee in the coal stoking furnace as kids.
sonic
sonic
QLD
756 posts
QLD, 756 posts
16 Apr 2010 10:39am
And thats why its gone greenleader! Actually the kids used to love it but in this day and age of litigation it was always an accident waiting to happen.I wounder how the meeting went at council,"lets get rid of the train over night and paint a picture of a train on the bogs.....no one will notice, $25k please!

What about the Red Barron and rock and Roll Al, there use to be a couple of guys Mike and Ian dont know what happened to them either.
sausage
sausage
QLD
4874 posts
QLD, 4874 posts
16 Apr 2010 11:04am
brad1 said...

I remember playing on the train when I was a youngen.


To think, you probably sat in Greenleader's p1ss. As littlies, we had a steam train as well in Cooee Bay park (Yeppoon) and thanks to GL I now know why it smelt like a public urinal too.
sausage
sausage
QLD
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QLD, 4874 posts
16 Apr 2010 12:33pm
brad1 said...

Bring back the Train !


Just had a brainwave. Knock down the existing public toilets with the train mural, replace it with a real train and convert it into a public toilet. Then Greenleader can relive his adolescence again.

That is why I'm paid the big bucks
brad1
brad1
QLD
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QLD, 232 posts
16 Apr 2010 4:36pm
greenleader said...

we used to pee in the coal stoking furnace as kids.


Ahh, so that was you!

brad1
brad1
QLD
232 posts
QLD, 232 posts
16 Apr 2010 4:38pm
Sausage said:
Just had a brainwave. Knock down the existing public toilets with the train mural, replace it with a real train and convert it into a public toilet. Then Greenleader can relive his adolescence again.

Mate your on to it! hehe




sonic
sonic
QLD
756 posts
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16 Apr 2010 7:36pm
I wouldn't use those toilets either Greenleader some weird people in there bring back the train.
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