Nice use of expletives for a wordsmith ,Nick Carroll wrote:Yeah look I don't know if it's fcuken dawned on anyone but there's an insane number of unridden waves breaking in Australia all the fcuken time.
They're not exactly a scarce resource except at maybe a dozen or so famous and grossly overcrowded locations. Drive 20 mins from most of those locations and you'll find good waves with a handful of people out.
Drive another 40mins to an hour and surf pretty much by yourself.
That's the reality of it, another reality is that surfing is not exactly a social necessity, I mean why the FCUK would anyone seriously propose that councils and State governments spend millions of dollars rendering an artificial reef when there's people who actually NEED social services, like for fcuk's sake.
As far as Surf Management Plans go, well the day some self-elected Gold Coast Surf Council tries to "manage" me into surfing somewhere is the day said Council's members will be vainly trying to remove an MC deep concave from their prominent arseholes.
Resist this nonsense god damn it.
And spoken from the rarified air of a surf journalist whose life revolves around hedonistic pursuit on a daily basis as well as plentsch sponsored or tax deductible surf travel .
Down here in " real land " when I can get the time, the surf is often lousy nearby ,or the less crowded beaches have fickle (work for an hour or so ) sandbanks .
What's wrong with encouraging better waves close to where the population is ? What's wrong in spreading the crowd a bit more ?
if you think it's better we all drive up 20 minutes or an hour every time we want one of these abundant and free quality waves you talk about please
consider the cost savings of having artificial reefs accessible to the more densely populated areas . not only personal cost savings , but also environmentally . (that must be a big footprint you have ? )
There are sound reasons and benefits for providing artificial reefs even if you yourself don't feel the need for one , nick .
You must have one o
