Should Rainbow Bay Be Replaced?

It's a hot topic on the Gold Coast at the moment, should Rainbow Bay Surf Club be replaced with a newer, flashier version or keep the 63 year old club the way it is..

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, So the news came out last week Rainbow
Bay Snapper Rocks.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
They're looking at redeveloping.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
In fact, they're looking at pretty much relocating it. Sixty
three years that Serf Club has been there. Yeah, and
Mick Fanning's already sat in the ring today saying no,
just no, losing all the car parks, losing the views.
How long it will actually take to redevelop that area,

(00:24):
also changing Snapper Rocks as well.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
And that's down your neck of the woods.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah, we've been there quite a few times, Mike and Malders.
He's got a few mates that work there. It's a
great little place and it's the atmosphere. You go in
there on a busy Saturday or Sunday, I have a table.
The food is just great, and like you said, the
views are amazing and the atmosphere and everything is just fantastic.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
I mean, being as old as you are, you would
understand at sixty three there needs to be a little
bit of jouging going on, like a bit of reno,
you know, like what we need to do with you,
a bit of redoing around the edges.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
You need all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
I think I think you need to keep up to
date with things. But we were just discussing this affair
on the Gold Coast. What we seem to do is
just rip down anything that has a history, so it
looks like the Gold Coast has no history. Everything doesn't
need to be bright and sparkly and everything else. There
is beautiful history on the Gold Coast. Sixty three years
for a place. I mean, you would understand how good

(01:21):
that it's to still be standing. So it is actually
quite good. It's quite a feat really for many people.
But I mean, I just think there's so many places
in the Gold Coast that and Kristin was talking about
this off air as well, the Pink Poodle, the Ice
Place down in Miami, different places, Magic Mountain, all those
places that they were here for so many years and
then they've just disappeared.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
And then if you do all those refurbishments they want
to do down there, will it lose the vibe or
will it be more expensive?

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Will it's well there be in Akpa.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Living into a different crowd because the people that you
see there are people that have been going there since
they were doing nippers, yeah, like with their parents. So
there's a bit of history there and if you change
all that up, will that change the.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
The clientele that go in there with different kind of
people the are in there?

Speaker 1 (02:06):
All right, we want to know what do you think
about the proposed redevelopment, relocating, knocking down of the Rainbow Bay.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Surf Club and also Snapper Rocks as well.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Mick Fanning says no, I think he's spoken down with
Mick like I stand with Cunning. So yes, we would
love to know what you think. I mean, we're getting
a fairly resounding no. There are some people they're saying
it's time to change. You know, it happened in Burley
they updated that surf club and that sort of brought
in new clientel. But Gail from Tweter's what do you think?

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Don't you dare touch it?

Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm not doing a thing mate.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
I am a third generation local. My husband has patrolled
Roambo Bay for forty years. He's a life member at
the Surf Club. The thing that people don't know the
Surf Club ha actually put in several other plans and
for some bizarre reason, they've never gone through. So yes,
and it hasn't just been one or two plans over

(03:01):
the last you know, four decades. Anyway, so I've actually
asked the questions of counselors. I've also asked the question
of the town planner that was there with their pop
up tent about the parking. Both of them gave me
two separate answers. So, yeah, the big thing is where

(03:23):
the patrolling members parks little alone the general public. Emergency
access is horrendous. My husband's also in emergency services. You know,
we've had several instances down there around it, Froggy, So
imagine getting an ambulance over a footpath with toddlers running
on the Grassmerca. Yeah. So, and financially too. Neither one

(03:48):
of them could answer either was who maintains the bar
and the restaurant licenses because all of that money goes
into surflight saving. So as Tom Tay going to get
another pretty little restaurant at the top of the hill Rainbow,
And you're right, Trev, you know what sort of people
are going to go there then? And we're going to

(04:09):
have another siblings crowd. And I love siblings. I'm not sagging,
but it's not the vibe. It's the first club. It's
a little treasure.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah. When they you're talking about they wanted to do
refurbishments before, but nothing was done. What was What do
they want done?

Speaker 4 (04:25):
They gal, well, basically fixing it up, you know, like rain,
that's it. Yeah, not ripping it down. It was just yeah,
she needs a bit of a nip and tuck, and
it really does.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
I'm hearing a gail, you've been tucking overhaul.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
Very good points, big for the driver.