Schoolies

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?

Im in QLD with my mates, smashed for 5 days straight and the plane ride home haha SWEET!!!!

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

im up in byron 😉 watch out people here i come 😀😀😀

hey dude, i went pacific sky with 13 others. had a ball. mind you i think the cruise idea is becoming more popular in the last few years so there are miore w**kers.
the best i can suggest is a little beach house somewhere and a good bunch of mates

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.

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

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!!!

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

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

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.

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

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

lol or sleep in the car (if you ahve a kombi) hehehe

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..........

...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

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

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.

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

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

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

[Edited on 12-8-2004 by byronbus]

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

hmmm...er....yeah...right!:P

R

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...

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.

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

i hope u wouldnt torch my baja :o

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 🙂

I wouldnt do it, but your right, you can find an uncrowded wave somewhere...

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

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 🙂

Hey canni! didnt realise u were still in school when i met u.
sounds like a good idea. between 3 and 8 of us are considering that sorta thing at the moment. either in the wilsons prom direction or off to Pambula/eden. one of the guys has a beach house up there, so its tempting. maybe we should join up and make a convoy:P

Damn, all these people coming to byron...why? There really is nothing here...

They all come to visit Cheaky Monkeys...

a schoolies convoy would be pretty cool 😀

I'm gonna celebrate the last 12 years of hard work by sitting on my arse and doing sweet F.A. Probably work on my dub and go to work to pay for it. But i would suggest sunshine coast - better beaches, better surf, cheaper than G.C and less wankers.

If ya go surfin with a mate it reduces the risk 50% so surf with someone fatter than you and you should be OK! and as for Byron, tell as many of ya friends as ya can Its a top spot. we want to keep everyone away from Tweed!
Rob...😎

haha, watch out robo, i have an Aunt in Tweed, if i wanted to i could take a shite-load of people up there😀

Thats why i surf with you Robo, distracts the sharks from me....

But i would suggest sunshine coast - better beaches, better surf, cheaper than G.C and less wankers.

....couldn't argue with that...! :P

R