Anyone seen this?
inspirewa.com.au/
Looks like it could be pretty good.
Anyone taking bets on it being approved?
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.
They have about as much chance as this lot
www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/ski-park-planned-no-boats-required-20121030-28gnk.html
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.
This looks the same as something first proposed for Peel region. Local partners had Italian group interested and then they backed out but local crew wanted to keep dream alive.
Now the location is the Swan Valley i am guessing for reasons including access to water.
If its designed so tourists have an all in one destination not sure how it has a big flow on effect to economy.
Adventure world has to close during winter due to lack of numbers so does building something bigger bring in bigger numbers ?
Perth needs more than a Theme park, IMHO theres feck all for locals never mind tourists.
Adventure world closes half the year cause it really only offers a seasonal facility.
This theme park seems still very conceptual, but it looks like they plan to offer a much larger range of facilities, with three hotels and a large variety of attractions.
Possibly by being a large enough park it could create a certain amount of gravity to support itself year round with local and tourist dollars.
But yeah, with Perth being the sleepy town it is with it's sleepy politicians, I don't hold out much hope of it getting up.
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.
I think they should hurry up and build the cable ski park instead of this garbage.
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?
Rather than a goyne I think some form of offshore structure say 100m out that catches and holds the sand but dont block the actual beach so the lateral drift can continue.
They have the bags that can be filled with sand and then need serious anchoring but if it doesnt work then it can be pulled apart.
Between surfers and the wind/kiters I reckon we would get more use out of some more waves than where some of the recreational dollars get invested
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.
Mark
I agree with the forst part but if you are ever at Pyramid beach south of the Dawesville cut have a look at the sand trap groyne and how much it has sunk.
The power of the ocean cannot be underestimated so the major cost is anchoring structure to the bottom so it doesnt move in storm events.
That why I reckon anchored sausage style sand bags as you suggest angled to set up the left doesnt seem hard. Good to also put a right hook as well so we could get a winter right.
A bit like south side city beach used to be before the played with the end of the groyne.
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.
