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chemmy
29-05-2005, 04:27 PM
i think it is great that we started with this the gold coast seaway in devlopment
chemmy
29-05-2005, 04:27 PM
to this
does any one know how long it took to make the seaway
Burley_Boy
30-05-2005, 06:54 AM
Yeah its surely helped me ;D
Top photos
chemmy
30-05-2005, 02:25 PM
how would you otherwise get to say palm beach ???
DaneCross
30-05-2005, 03:24 PM
how would you otherwise get to say palm beach ???
Through Currumbin???
MulletGuts
30-05-2005, 04:29 PM
must have had an amazing impact on tide times and sizes around southport/surfers area surely.

Good photos.
DICER
30-05-2005, 10:21 PM
When Cook sailed passed in the late 1700's, he described a region where North and South stradbroke were one.
Dezzer
31-05-2005, 04:30 AM
Remembered a story about the straddy bar being initiated by dynamite and found this at - http://www.goldcoastaustralia.com/108985.php
"Stradbroke was once, one large island that stretched north towards Brisbane . In 1894 the vessel, Cambus Wallace, ran aground at Jumpinpin. The ships cargo was a mixture of liquor and dynamite. The salvagers were successful in saving the liquor, however, they left the remaining dynamite as it was deemed to unsafe to remove. Upon this, the authorities detonated the dynamite and created a massive seabed crater. Within four years, due to the surf and might of cyclones the separation of North and South Stradbroke was complete. This is how we know the island today - with the gap between the two islands, known infamously as the Jumpinpin Bar – in which whose waters many a fisherman has lost his boat but found his dinner."

Cheers, Dezzer