Bundaberg projects

[Danubis]

Just thought there were a couple of buildings in bundy that cul could ad to emporis.com? - >

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/danubiis/5e.jpg
8 stories plus roof feature?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/danubiis/27b.jpg
7 stories plus roof feature?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/danubiis/bcc6hv_rc.jpg
the three bridges of bundy

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/danubiis/bcc14hv_rc.jpg
A chimney stack for culs collection perhaps?

btw- bundaburg has a population of 45,000 people servicing a district of 70,000.


I dont think we have a person from bundaburg on this forum, but if anyone else knows of any projects happening up there at the moment, please post some information... Bagara is only about 15 mins away from the city, which is apparently developing quite rapidly so good see some 10 story plus residentals going up there in the near future, if there arnt any there already...

[Gertzy]

I knew that there was the Westpac Bank Building with the huge Painting on the side of it, but I never have seen the other one before.

[Danubis]

cul does bundy make it onto emporis.com with these buildings? lol :)

[BrizzyChris]

It would be nice if it could, but I believe only buildings over 12 stories can be added to ss.com

[Danubis]

:( bugga

[Oriolus]

Apparentely nowdays the Whaling Wall is quite faded and much in need of a touch up
http://ianh.typepad.com/photos/bundaberg/bundaberg_6.jpg


from
http://ianh.typepad.com/photos/bundaberg/bundaberg_6.html
One of Bundaberg's most prominent features is this huge, multi-storey, mural painted on the side of the town's only real high-rise building. The Whale Wall mural was painted in 1990 by international marine artist, Robert Wyland, his first in the Southern Hemisphere and his 23rd such project. It's hard to get a decent shot of the mural with adjacent buidlings a nd trees in Bourbong Street obscuring much of the view.

from
http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/woodwild/whaling%20wall.htm
Whaling Wall painted and given to the city of Bundaberg with the stipulation that no one else could touch it up. It was to last 10 years and has lasted 14 years but is in need of touch up but the painter can’t be located.

[Oriolus]

Well this thread needs to be bumped up before it disappears, so I checked out highrise development at Bargara like Danubis suggested. Well they've made a start - might be a place to watch in the future.

http://www.bundaberg.qld.gov.au/gallery/albums/bargara/00028_G.sized.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/Oriolus/BagaraUnits.jpg

[Gertzy]

Actually with emporis, cul can add buildings that are below 8 stories, its happened in the Townsville, Darwin and Toowoomba databases so I think you can add a bundy one.

[BrizzyChris]

Was in the area a couple of weeks ago and managed to get some pics. I was very surprised by how much development is built and U/C at Bargara.

Here are some photos:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/chrismayhew59/bargara01.jpg

This development is on the spare grass area on the headland in the aerial in the post above.
http://members.optusnet.com.au/chrismayhew59/bargara02.jpg

http://members.optusnet.com.au/chrismayhew59/bargara03.jpg

http://members.optusnet.com.au/chrismayhew59/bargara04.jpg

http://members.optusnet.com.au/chrismayhew59/bargara05.jpg

http://members.optusnet.com.au/chrismayhew59/bargara06.jpg

http://members.optusnet.com.au/chrismayhew59/bargara07.jpg

http://members.optusnet.com.au/chrismayhew59/bargara08.jpg

http://members.optusnet.com.au/chrismayhew59/bargara09.jpg

http://members.optusnet.com.au/chrismayhew59/bargara10.jpg

http://members.optusnet.com.au/chrismayhew59/bargara11.jpg

[CULWULLA]

Just thought there were a couple of buildings in bundy that cul could ad to emporis.com? - >

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/danubiis/5e.jpg
8 stories plus roof feature?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/danubiis/27b.jpg
7 stories plus roof feature?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/danubiis/bcc6hv_rc.jpg
the three bridges of bundy

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/danubiis/bcc14hv_rc.jpg
A chimney stack for culs collection perhaps?

btw- bundaburg has a population of 45,000 people servicing a district of 70,000.


I dont think we have a person from bundaburg on this forum, but if anyone else knows of any projects happening up there at the moment, please post some information... Bagara is only about 15 mins away from the city, which is apparently developing quite rapidly so good see some 10 story plus residentals going up there in the near future, if there arnt any there already...
danubis. the chimney photo isnt showing. is there a way of reposting ?
cheers

[RADULA]

I've been to bundaberg. Don't really remember much except that there was always smoke clouds in the sky from the burning of sugar, and the strong smell. I think sugar is the regions main industry? Good to see some actual development is happening there.

[PrinzPaulEugen]

Bundy rulz - I was born in the hospital of Dr Death - there is irony and po mo in there somewhere if u can spot it...

[PrinzPaulEugen]

From the Courier Mail:

http://www.couriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,17023609%255E23272,00.html

Submissions sought on legal nude beach
Glenis Green
25oct05

THE push is on to establish Queensland's first legal nude beach with Burnett Shire Council, near Bundaberg, calling for submissions and nominations on the beach's suitability.

However, the council's open-minded approach has not pleased everyone with residents living near Coonarr Beach, just south of Bargara, upset their beach could be the favoured location.

Sue Zaina of Coonarr is busy urging people to reject the "clothing optional beach" proposal before the council cut-off date of November 10.

She said that with its dirt road access and lack of properly maintained facilities, Coonarr Beach was not suitable for regular policing and it was also a favoured beach for school ecology projects.

She also said that because it was one of the most beautiful, long and pristine beaches in Queensland it was unfair to restrict access for those who chose not to expose themselves or their children "to that type of thing".

"I'm saying to people that if this is something you don't want then don't just sit back and say 'not in my front yard' . . . if you feel you don't want it then get off your bums and say something," she said.

However, Bargara nudist and Free Beach Australia spokeswoman, Patsy Brown, said Coonarr had been used as a de facto nude beach for more than 10 years now with no problems and no arrests.

She said Mon Repos Beach also attracted some nudists but FBA would not be nominating it to the Burnett council because there were too many conflicts with turtle-watchers and national park visitors.

Mrs Brown said she was pleased the council was taking such an open-minded approach to considering a nude beach in the shire and was hopeful it would become Queensland's first legal clothing optional beach when the State Government made promised amendments to the Summary Offences Act early next year.

The amendments would place the responsibility for declaration of nude beaches in the hands of local councils.

"It would be great publicity and great for tourism (to have a nude beach here)," Mrs Brown said.

"We're the only state in Australia not to have one, – the first was in South Australia 30 years ago."

Burnett Shire has already received more than 200 submissions on the clothing optional proposal, with about 60 per cent in favour so far and the rest against.

Mrs Brown said she was "quietly optimistic" and had been encouraged by Premier Peter Beattie's response at a meeting set up earlier this year by pro-nude bathing Member for Noosa Cate Molloy.

FBA's Anita Grigg, from the Sunshine Coast, said a clothing optional beach in Burnett Shire would be a good location because of the region's high percentage of visiting backpackers and "grey nomads". "A large percentage of them are nudists and they'd come to the area and stay," she said.

To make a submission for or against the proposal or nominate a beach in Burnett Shire, send an e-mail to bsc@burnett.qld.gov.au or write to the chief executive officer at Locked Bag 1, Bargara, 4670, marking it "Clothing Optional Beach".

[JayT]

^^
There are heaps of Nude Beaches in Queensland. Alexandra Bay at Noosa is probably the most famous. I know of at least four in SEQ that are unnoficial nudist beaches but the authorities turn a blind eye.

There is also one north of Cairns too which is supposed to be good.

[Danubis]

i went to A bay on sunday and gut sundburnt on my bot bot :(

and if you're thinking of a visit... stay away from the bushes... in the dunes, full on fuck fest.

[Gertzy]

That one north of Cairns I think is still going under approval, but people still go there and get nude, never been there though, and why the hell would I, too young to visit, anyway, Bundy should really be the one with the bigger airport, instead of Hervey Bay, Hervey Bay airport is going to kill alot of its traffic.

[PrinzPaulEugen]

When the reporter above said: "Coonarr Beach, just south of Bargara", this is possibly a little misleading - whether by design or ignorance. Coonarr Beach is the other side of the Elliott River from Elliott Heads. Elliott Heads is a town about ten kilometers south of Bargara. There is no bridge there. If you don't have a boat you have to go a long way inland to cross the river, drive south, and then up some very ordinary roads to get to Coonarr. The way Bargara people drive, you might get there in half an hour, depending on whose ute you go in. But it is an interesting article, either way.

[PrinzPaulEugen]

An interesting question is if the beachfront towns of the Burnett shire coastal (Bargara) region will become a new Hervey Bay. Burnett Heads, Bargara, Innes Park, and Elliott Heads are growing ever closer, in the same way Torquay, Pialba, Point Vernon, and Scarness did in the 1970’s and 80’s. In 1986 there were 20 660 in Hervey Bay, by 2005 - 47,556. I have tried to find population statistics for towns other than Bargara [(2,700) (which I am sure it was in about 1977)] - but have been fruitless.

[KJBrissy]

That one north of Cairns I think is still going under approval, but people still go there and get nude, never been there though, and why the hell would I, too young to visit, anyway, Bundy should really be the one with the bigger airport, instead of Hervey Bay, Hervey Bay airport is going to kill alot of its traffic.

The Airport should really have gone in the middle of Maryborough, Hervey Bay and Bundaberg. The reason why Hervey Bay got the Airport was because there was talk of having the airport in the middle, but the Bundaberg City Council didn't want to come to the party, so the HBCC took the initiative and started construction. I also think the airliners would have preferred HB as it is much closer to Fraser Island. HB also has a similar population as Bundaberg, is growing quicker yet has about 100,000 people living within closer proximity.

[CULWULLA]

danubis-can you repost the chimney you mentioned back on post #1?