No Cruise Ship Terminal For Kirra
So as most budding surfers/watermen and women would of heard about the proposed cruise ship terminal that was going to invade Kirra beach and wreck well the whole Gold Coast.
However today Qld premier Campbell Newman canned the 2 million project. “While we always welcome new ideas about how to grow the state, we will simply never entertain the idea of a cruise ship terminal at Kirra Beach. Our beaches are just too important – not just as a natural wonder or as a place for families and surfers – but also for the central role they play in Gold Coast tourism.”
Well played sir! The beaches ARE just to important to build some hideous and gargantuan cruise ship terminal!
Anyhoo the good folk at STAB mag have a more in depth article here
Next surf trip… Kirra!! Yeewww! 
have never surfed kirra but still glad to hear that ridiculous proposal was canned.
Im so glad this never went through. I went there every year as a kid/teen for our yearly holiday.
Wow! Dont just break out the champagne and beers yet ladies and gents, this dog fight isnt over.
BREAKING NEWS - THE DEVELOPERS ARE BACK AGAIN WITH A CASINO, BILLION $ RESORT, SUPER MARINA AT NORTH KIRRA .....PUBLIC LAND GRAB HERE WE GO AGAIN…....
The Protest and paddle out is back on with a vengeance after Gold Coast Nine News & NBNTV reported a whole new plan for North Kirra. The same developers, GCOT, who had their Ocean Terminal scuttled by Premier Newman on Thursday have come back on the same site proposing a multi-Billion Resort & Casino on public beachfront land and sitting offshore on a Super Marina. Just when you thought there was no reason to Paddle Out on Sunday, its game back on. SOSBA calls on everyone to join us this Sunday to oppose yet another hair brain pie in the sky scheme.
GCOT are trying to sell their idea to local surfers saying they will build their own sand bypass outlet which they say will create the old World Famous Kirra surf break, create new breaks at Bilinga and replenish the Northern Beaches.
Premier Newman has stated that he is against any such development that infringes on public land on the beach.
An invitation has been extended to the Premier to attend this Sunday’s Big Paddle Out.
The idea of nominating the Gold Coast coastal strip from South Straddie to Coolangatta as a World Surfing Reserve went viral on the media today after endorsement from our two local World Champs Mick Fanning and Joel Parkinson. The time is now for a World Surfing Reserve.
A$$HOLES!!!!
While I see the Cruise Ship Port as an utterly ridiculous idea, I can’t see a problem with the Marina at Nth Kirra?????
Coolangatta/Tweed is a bit of a shit hole at the moment, and if it’s gonna get back to the tourist destination that it once was, it needs a bit of sparkle!!!!!
The turn out for today!! Pretty bloody awesome! Thanks Gold Coasters! LETS SAVE KIRRA!!
I can’t see a cruise ship terminal EVER being built in the proposed location.
Not because of surfing reasons but because I imagine it would be an engineering disaster/nightmare; given the ferocity of the ocean/size of waves during cyclones and the sand movement along that stretch of coast.
Cruise ships need deep water I suspect - how could they get that close to the beach and keep a consistent channel running to it?
But if they did it could create a much needed left hander. 
how could they get that close to the beach and keep a consistent channel running to it?
To answer that question spaz.. They’d achieve this through a process called dredging. Looks a little something like this.. 
This is an extreme case, but obviously so harsh for the eco system/marine life. Not a nice thing.
Hence why this needs to be stopped!
I’m aware of dredging (lived on the gold coast when the Tweed was being pumped over to snapper - pre superbank).
I can’t imagine they would be able to maintain a channel for a terminal; or it would be a endless and expensive ongoing.
I reckon they are submitting this location to get the public used to the idea of having a terminal - they may have plans to construct it elsewhere.
The location of a Kirra terminal is close to the airport which would be an advantage for travellers.
Surfers Paradise has a long list of playing god with the environment, on each occasion it eventually leads to an improvement of surf breaks and overall attraction of people to the area.
eg:
- building a bridge across the Tweed.
- building highrise buildings on sand.
- creating the waterways.
- the original kirra breakwall was protested. It initially wrecked Kirra, then after the banks settled the wave was better.
- Kirra breakwall extension. Same.
- Dredging and sandpumping of tweed was protested vehemently. Initially everyone cried foul until a decent storm came through and formed the Superbank. When they stop pumping or dredging now; everyone gets their knickers in a knot because the break doesn’t maintain it’s Superbank quality.
Since Surfers Paradise is a man made coastline and city constructed on a sandy swamp (unusable for anything and an environmental cesspool); I don’t see too much to complain about. Each time they’ve messed with that area they come up smelling roses.
So long as they only mess with that part of the coast - there are so many unspoiled areas north - with better, longer waves than kirra that they leave alone.
But; At the end of the day they should utilize Moreton Bay - The Gold Coast has too many people now!
Always opposition to dredgin, but wherever they do it seems to create a better ecosystem than was there before!!!!!
Only gotta look at the Tweed River today!!!!!