Gold Coast Nitro SuperGP - Goodbye Indy

This year is 19th annual race event held on the Gold Coast. And it is the first year without the Indy cars with the A1GP cars taking their place alongside the V8 Supercars.

As usual it runs for four days from October 22-25th.

Nitro Energy drink is the naming rights sponsor, never heard of them??, me neither. But anyway, apparently it's Australia's energy drink going by their website http://www.nitroenergydrink.com.au/.



So, goodbye Nikon, goodbye indy and hello Nitro SuperGP!

More resources:
Official Event site: supergp.com.au
A1GP Official site: A1Gp.com
V8 SuperCars: v8supercars.com.au
City guides: Gold Coast Info, Gold Coast accommodation
News: Gold Coast Bulletin
Airport: Gold Coast Airport
Airport Transfers: Gold Coast/Brisbane Airport Transfers

Gold Coast Indy 2007 - The race is already on!

The Gold Coast Indy is set to start on October the 18th but for some the race is already on!



Construction of grandstands, walk over bridges is well underway. Within Main Beach and Surfers Paradise roads are becoming a racetrack once again.

Pitlane and it's grandstands at Macintosh Island are being sectioned out and bolted up.



Construction workers and engineers are flat strap trying to get the new Macintosh Island Bridge completed before commencement of the event.


And this years Indy is tipped to be a big one with more off track entertainment including a music festival at Broadbeach and a drifting competition at the Southport Broadwater carpark adding to the off track entertainment. Last year the four day event attracted over 300,000 people making it the largest motorsport event on Australia's calender.

If your still trying to track down accommodation - good luck! There may be a something left through the accommodation aggregators listed see: Gold Coast Indy page.

On the track things look pretty hot with the expected shoot out between Australia Will Power and Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais and V8 Supercars will provide the homegrown door slamming action as usual!

Can't Wait!

Videos of last years Indy



More:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUs7OgUj-Eo&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWp4jyjzsgU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb0BZ6wKlkE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj64ogxm4Z
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN19KNDnJLA

Gold Coasts No.1 Website fiasco

A couple of weeks ago the local newspaper - The Gold Coast Bulletin - released it's new website/news portal which at the time didn't interest me so much as the newspaper itself fails to interest me.

Although there has been a couple of blog posts which I found not only amusing but also revealing inspiring me to put my thoughts out there.


Now the first thing that just makes a joke out of the four page wrapper is that sub headline. "Gold Coast's No.1 Website..." umm..so that is Gold Coast is No.1 Website? This was throughout the non labeled promotional piece. Now you could expect such much mistakes from a blogger but not mainstream media, It's an absolute embarrassment for the residents of the region. No wonder that no other media touched the story.

They also boldly claim to be the regions No.1 website just days after launching the site? Can they back that up with anything other than puffery? No and perhaps that's the reason for the misspell.

They also make, what I would call defamatory, claims such as 'The Gold Coasts tourism operators finally have a single place to concentrate their marketing efforts after many years of needing to use multiple small ineffective websites', really. I'm sure the ACCC would find that somewhat interesting.

Should the owners of websites relating to the Gold Coast be a little upset. Absolutely and so should the Gold Coast Council and Tourism Queensland.

The posts that made me post:
We're Way Ahead
Murdoch Owns The Gold Coast: Is Everyone OK With That?

The other points expressed in those posts are the fact that how did Auda (the domain regulator) let city names slip to the corporate sector?

The other post is somewhat disturbing revealing monopoly domination of media, now seemingly both offline and online.

Great work by both of those bloggers.

Shankar dada Zindabad - filming on the Gold Coast

Its always fun when you wander along the beach and run into a movie crew! This week the crew filming the movie Shankar dada Zindabad where completing some of their filming for the movie on the beaches of the Gold Coast.

Shankar dada Zindabad is being made by filmmakers from Teluga, India aka Tollywood. The movie stars Chiranjeevi and Karishma Kotak.

Photo: The film crew used Currumbin Beach on the Gold Coast as one of their shoot locations.


Photo: Karishma Kotak and Chiranjeevi in action on the set of Shankar Dada Zindabad.


Photo: Karishma Kotak and Chiranjeevi taking a minute after shooting a scene.

Soldiers on the March

The Soldier Crab lives in sandy estuaries and mangroves, and occurs in massive groups that seem to emerge from nowhere all at the same time. A small army of Soldier Crabs inhabits the calm waters of the Spit (Doug Jennings Park) on the Gold Coast - pictured below.

Soldier crabs will comb the sandy intertidal zones scooping up this debris with their front claws and eating it. The crabs will then deposit the waste sand that is left over in compacted balls called pseudofaece. The photo above shows a small 'army' of Soldier Crabs moving across the beach, also seen is the pebbling effect of the beach being their compacted waste.


It is thought that their spontaneous arrival is triggered by the falling tide. If disturbed, they burrow into the sand with a corkscrew motion, disappearing as quickly as they arrived. In the photo below one little fella is just poking his head out for a look behind his mate.



The Soldier Crabs are also the only crabs that can walk forwards rather than sideways.