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Surf Lakes has confirmed plans for a resort centered around a new and improved version of their unique, plunger-based wave pool design.

Livingstone Shire Council has approved plans for a premium recreational and lifestyle precinct at the Surf Lakes site in the coastal town of Yeppoon, Qld.

An Australian wave-generating surf pool with plans to expand into a year-round tourist attraction could open to visitors as early as 2022.  Broadbeach-based company Surf Lakes built the facility in 2018 near the town of Yeppoon on Queensland's Capricorn Coast.  The pool uses 'five wave' technology to produce five different levels of waves around the lake, using a giant plunger driven by compressed air at the center.  Now, the company plans to convert the site into the 'ultimate surf getaway' in a $187million development plan lodged with the Livingstone Council last month.  The start-up ...

Premium Content Subscriber only MORE pieces of the puzzle have been put in place to make the Capricorn Coast dream of having the world’s first commercial surf wavepool a reality. Artificial wavepool company Surf Lakes International has added overseas-based sales personnel to its team, as it edges closer to having a development application for its proposed project near Yeppoon submitted to Livingstone Shire Council. “We’ve just appointed several sales directors, thankfully most of them on commission, but they’re super excited about it,” Surf Lakes International founder and CEO Aaron ...

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