Saw this on the news a couple of weeks ago www.themercury.com.au/nocookies?a=A.flavipes . Right on Adolph, jetskis are horrible.
Adolf that's like saying that Hoons and Dic- heads are inclined to buy V8 utes and commodores so we should also ban them form the roads..
These machines are banned in Sydney harbour .
It is only a matter of time before they will be banned from port Phillip and western port .
Maybe at best have a couple of 5 square mile paddocks in the middle of port Phillip for them to do donuts and speed around in .
There is absolutely no reason for them to be within 8 miles of shore , apart from a corridor to get in and out .
I've got an idea - Moe, Victoria, stay with me on this one.
They could fill in that open cut mine with water. Knobs who own V8 utes, commodores or jetskis as well as duck shooters would be given incentives such as free lake side homes, cheap bundaberg rum, tooheys dry and a care free police attitude towards public drunkedness, Jimmy Barnes recordings, wildlife shootings, circle work on the roads and in the open cut lake. After a while other knobs would just gravitate there - just like scratchers gravitated towards Nimbin in the 70s. Then all they have to do is gate it off from the rest of us. Give it 20 years and it will become a tourist destination.
Win Win
Good ideas Sands and Adolf, I agree, make a tourist attraction out of them and get them away from the Bay, whats the new satelite suburb of Moe called, boganville upper or maybe knobsville or even Wynne Wynne, as long as all new residents can get a subsidized VB fridge and your on a winner
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oh... that's me, but mine would blow up if i pressed the go-pedal past 1/2 way
I have 2 jet skis. does this make me a knob or a bogan cause i like them. Your going to get dickheads in any sport. But in saying that i spose you would have to sell an awful lot of "air swimmers" to even buy a half decent jet ski !!!
And no my surfing is not that bad..
I was racing my catamaran off elwood the other day, coming up to the top mark straight off luna park at 11-13 knots and I saw for 30 seconds or so a couple of water police on a huge RIB with 600hp or so on the back and the 12 seats for the seal insertion team kinda thing pulling over a jetski, but I'm not sure why. So they are about, but it seemed like a weird place to have them 500m off the beach.
The Moe mine idea sounds good, and I'm sure there are other places that can be jetski reserves. In the southwest of vic they could have the area around Julia Percy Island (full of seals, and therefore what I've heard to be massive great whites). In port phillip bay might as well make it under 5 knots within 500m, under 20 under 3kms from the beach, then do what you want after that. I often sail and windsurf at portarlington and theres just hundreds and hundreds going past making it hard to sail in light air, ruining my cat sail thorugh the flogging back and forth over their wakes,then if theres enough wind to windsurf they've normally chickened out. Occasionally you see them go over the sandbanks at 20+ knots, and one day ones gunna hit it and destroy their engines. I just don't see the point in them, they use fuel just to go back and forth and do circles, which drives the fuel price up and makes my life harder. But I could cope if they were silent like us and just stayed away from the beach. The noise is probably one of the worst things about them.
they already did that one....an old quarry in Wanneroo wa, gave it a flash name
Edgewater, the nobs came and settled
Edgewater
Oh you must mean Edgemud
waters all drying up- or gone already
The area- Lake Joondalup was used by our scout troop as late as the mid 80's for camping, rafting, canoeing, and messing about in boats almost all year round- now it is almost always mud. sometimes with a thin layer of water.
Nearby, Lake Gnangara has also dried up- it used to be used for surfcats and waterskiing- now its home to Perth Blokarts Club (I graciously share it with them) only fair as they get there more often than I do.
stephen
