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baybuscamperkid prince of insufficient light, ruler of heck

4,316 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#215249
ok guys, there must be a few of you out there planning to go to schoolies this year, just wondering what everyones plans are? i personally cannot be bothered with the bu!!$hit that will constitute the goldcoast celebrations, nor can i be bothered with the cost or the travel. instead i would prefer somewhere no more then a days drive from home.
does anyone know anywhere worth going between Eden in NSW and Victor Harbout in SA?
Victor Harbour looks pretty good at the moment.
any suggestions?
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Adam_C Custom Title Time!

1,180 posts · joined May 2003 ·

#215254
Im in QLD with my mates, smashed for 5 days straight and the plane ride home haha SWEET!!!!
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killakornkobb where's that clutch?

1,663 posts · joined Mar 2004 ·

#215260
i went to venus bay... near phillip island.. was pretty nice.. wish i coulda driven there myself (last year) had a good week 🙂 i also couldnt be bothered with the cost/bullS#$t associated w/ QLD 4 schoolies
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pyr0 flame-on

4,457 posts · joined Mar 2003 ·

#215266
im up in byron 😉 watch out people here i come 😀😀😀
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Riaan Eurotrash

183 posts · joined Nov 2003 ·

#215271
pfft for the gold coast, when i finish im gonan ride across teh country on my triumph, dennis hopper style, but without teh getting killed by hillbillys part.

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pyr0 flame-on

4,457 posts · joined Mar 2003 ·

#215275
people the cruises are packed as i think they are even booked out for next year, and think about it you cant exactly hide from any emenies you make....not that us VW people make any :party
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BiX Veteran Volks Folk

2,499 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#215391
schoolies was good back when i was 17, but my friends think it is shit now. I would go somewhere else, sunshine coast, stadie etc. We always did a mini schoolies after uni each year, used to get a house at byron for a week, 12 ppl, lots of grog, those were the days!!!
I have no sympathy for my car, only the wallet that pays for it!
Go hard or go home!!!!

CoopGirl Fat Chicks ROCK!

825 posts · joined Aug 2003 ·

#215393
Victor Harbour is a tops place to go, but it too is becomming a bit of a schoolies hang out I think.

Anthiron The Baja Rejuvenation Begins

4,936 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·

#215399
i went to the gold coast for my schoolies last year. spent about a grand. wasnt even that crash hot......lots of coppers. there was beach music and performances with fire pois and staves that made me want to show them how its done properly. but we had a nice place called the "silverton Luxury apartments" we had 6 in our appartment and it ended up costing about $350 each for 7 days. we had veiws of the river (for the wake boarding and stuff) and the roadside for the 1000's of rice burners to look at.....it seems everyone on the goldcoast owned a supra, skyline, 300zx or silvia. did see a few nice dubs though and a few sweet porsches. for u blokes in the southern states i wouldnt worry about the goldie its to far for too little. though if u are single there were some nice ladies walking around.

i wish i had of gone to byron with some of my other mates and drank cask wine and partied with the hippys for about 150 bucks instead of the 1000 i spent at the goldie. might head down to byron this year to check it out.

oh and the night before you leave even if u have shite loads of grog left, never try to drink it all so u dont take any home. after the bottle of vodka i was feeling ok it was the scotch that did it i think...........

Nick
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pyr0 flame-on

4,457 posts · joined Mar 2003 ·

#215401
im in byron 🙂 always willing to help out a dubber if you decide to end up there give me a yell im sure i can put you up for a couple of nights, i mean everyone else i know is stopping it at me and my mates place.
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ratty 63 Custom Title Time!

1,083 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·

#215406
as a resident of the Gold Coast I only have this to say:

"....AAARRRRRGGGGG here comes schoolies again - looks like Surfers is out of bounds again for those couple of weeks!"

Really though, the Gold Coast is not a bad place (although I am a little biased!:P ), but the problems seam to get worse every year. The biggest problems are usually caused by the older 'hangers on' who go into Surfers looking to 'pick-up' a school leaver...

Most of the school leaver from the Gold Coast go to Noosa or Maroochydore on the Sunshine Coast, so this should give you an idea what the locals think about it.

One of the Schoolies from last year told me that the best part of his schoolies (he went to Surfers) was getting arrested for underaged drinking, but being let off for drinking in public....hmmm

R
40hp, 6V and ...er... slowly making improvements 😂

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Anthiron The Baja Rejuvenation Begins

4,936 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·

#215407
i live about half an hour away from noosa. but the celebrations there arent as big as the goldie. and its not as big a thing if u jump in the car for a short trip for your huge celebration and then come home to sleep. lol:P
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pyr0 flame-on

4,457 posts · joined Mar 2003 ·

#215411
lol or sleep in the car (if you ahve a kombi) hehehe
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Anthiron The Baja Rejuvenation Begins

4,936 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·

#215415
i think id have a pretty crook neck if i tried to sleep in my baja......perhaps if i was 2 and a half feet tall i could stretch out on the back seat..........
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1974 Chevrolet Luv
1970 MK2 Ford Cortina GT
1979 Yamaha RX125 Two Stroke tracker project.
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ratty 63 Custom Title Time!

1,083 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·

#215424
...be careful sleeping in your car in Surfers - a couple of guys that I know were charged with...er...something (I've forgotten what exactly) last year for exactly this, apparently its against some sort of law...

Of course if you got out of Surfers and tried the same thing ....

R
40hp, 6V and ...er... slowly making improvements 😂

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice!

Founding member of the Gold Coast Dub Club Inc. 🙂

pyr0 flame-on

4,457 posts · joined Mar 2003 ·

#215429
nah i actually have a lace to stay !! YAY no illegal sleeping for me 😀 not that it stops me when im down the beach :
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BiX Veteran Volks Folk

2,499 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#215448
schoolies was good for 99, went last year with the gf and it really bad, so many fights and police everywhere, and you couldn't relax and enjoy it.
I have no sympathy for my car, only the wallet that pays for it!
Go hard or go home!!!!

boersch Wolfsburg Wizard

407 posts · joined Jun 2004 ·

#215827
me and a bunch of mates are driving along the great ocean road to lorne (is that how you spell it???) just going to get blind and have fun, lots of beach 😀 taking the dub as well hehehe

kombi_kid Moderator Good Kid too many projects

124 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#215878
i gotta say the gold coast main beach carpark is looking like apretty good place to stay again i will be there with bells on along with 3 other car loads of mates!!!! its gonna be awesome!!
cheers
rhys
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byronbus dsk

4,204 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#216195
byrons a sleepy fishing village with crap surf, nothing to do here...I suggest the goldy

[Edited on 12-8-2004 by byronbus]
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ratty 63 Custom Title Time!

1,083 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·

#216280
byrons a sleepy fishing village with crap surf, nothing to do here...I suggest the goldy
hmmm...er....yeah...right!:P

R
40hp, 6V and ...er... slowly making improvements 😂

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice!

Founding member of the Gold Coast Dub Club Inc. 🙂

byronbus dsk

4,204 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#216282
You dont want to come to byron, cant sleep in your car, rangers will get you...and the locals in the surf are pretty scary...Coffs is good i've heard...
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Anthiron The Baja Rejuvenation Begins

4,936 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·

#216286
yeah i have like a second uncle or something...some weird relation....he was a byron bloke...lived there all his life i think and then moved to brissy.....one day he was telling me about throwing a few punches towards tourists who "stole his wave" and that kinda thing. good thing i dont surf.
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byronbus dsk

4,204 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#216288
We dont throw punches, that would be taking things a bit far...we torch their cars though...

And the hippies and backpackers, they're the number destroyers of bay window kombis
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Anthiron The Baja Rejuvenation Begins

4,936 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·

#216290
i hope u wouldnt torch my baja :o
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1974 Chevrolet Luv
1970 MK2 Ford Cortina GT
1979 Yamaha RX125 Two Stroke tracker project.
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pyr0 flame-on

4,457 posts · joined Mar 2003 ·

#216293
uh oh sounds like the nat yound story all over again 😉 i must say u havent met crazy locals till you've surfed sandon point when its going off, those dudes are seriously disturbed like they will bash you some of them cut peoples leashes in the water others just get there mates and bash the stuffin out of you.

byron is understandable with so many tourists passing through but. i usually find my own stretch of tallows ok as its damn long, you may not have the best waves of the day but you'll have them to your self 🙂
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byronbus dsk

4,204 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#216295
I wouldnt do it, but your right, you can find an uncrowded wave somewhere...
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pyr0 flame-on

4,457 posts · joined Mar 2003 ·

#216300
not affraid of sharks are you ?

i mean the risks of surfing alone are dangerous so take a mate..... but yeh the uncroweded ones are around just take more lookin for
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Canni. Wolfsburg Wizard

471 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·

#216601
some friends and I are going for a road trip...not sure where at the moment (possibly wilsons prom?) most other people from my school are heading to Byron... yet i cannot afford it this year... any suggestions of other good places to go would be cool 🙂
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