WEBVTT - 2. Water Slide? Yes or No 🌊 - Slippery Slope 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:08.039 Slippery Slope, a true crime podcast about maunt iSER and 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:10.040 the Missing water Slide. 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:14.560 With Dave O'Neill and Brad Oaks. 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:23.000 Hello and welcome to our podcast Slippery Slope from Dave O'Neill. 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:24.200 And it's Brad Oaks. 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:27.120 Yes, now this is the second episode. If you haven't 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:30.320 listened to the first one, we'll just recap it very quickly. 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:31.320 We went to Mount Isaac. 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:34.040 We're doing some shows up in northern Glenday. 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.640 We're comedians. If you don't know, we're not journalists, so 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:39.559 you can stop all the feedback saying we've had no feedback, 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.520 but anyway, we're not We're not hardcore journalists. We're comedians. 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:44.800 But we discovered a pretty amazing story. 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.159 We thought this town needed a water slide, but. 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:50.839 Did it get it? What happened There was a bit 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:52.760 of an incident. There were a few incidents. It's a 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:58.240 pretty incredible story, we thought, with international ramifications. Even though 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.880 we're talking about maunt iSER, which is the middle of Queensland, 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.600 in the middle of nowhere, this story went around the world. 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:05.759 As I said in the end of the last episode, 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.240 you don't just go to Clark Rubber and buy a 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:09.279 massive water slide. 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:12.360 No, you have to look elsewhere. 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.319 Now, Brad. Water slides they seem to be a particularly 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:19.319 Australian thing. I know they're not, but we sort of 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:23.520 owned them, and particularly Queensland is my memory, because we're 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.360 Melbourne guys. Now, we didn't have water slides at our 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:27.920 pools and we were growing up, did. 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.080 We No, But a lot of us in Melbourne live 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:31.520 very close to the coast. 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:33.039 Yes, so we went to the beach. 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:34.959 Yes, there were no water slides there, No. 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.600 And you know you'd either jump off the pier or. 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.080 You serve boogie board. 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:39.479 Yeah. 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.560 I don't think even when I was a kid, I 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:43.760 didn't really notice that. I felt like that they started 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.839 to hit in the late seventies early eighties, Yeah. 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.000 And it was mainly Queensland. So I remember going up 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.280 to queens in nineteen eighty. Dad drove us up there 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:54.000 in his Earth and me and my twin brother Glen 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.560 were in the back. We went to Noosa and on 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.360 the way we stopped at a water slide, which might 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:01.320 have been the sun Shoin coast of the Gold Coaster 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:03.120 was one of them. And I was on the side 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:05.840 of a hill like a squiggly worm like obviously a 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.480 couple of dads had made it. Was it embedded, Yes, 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.680 it was embedded into the ground and occasionally the story 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.240 would come through of the kid flying off into the grass. 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.200 And that was my first memory of a water slide. 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.560 Although my first memory of water slide was actually Geelong. 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:23.560 They still have a water slide park. 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:23.840 You know. 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:25.720 I haven't looked it up to see when they first 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.760 got it, but it was when Geelong started pretending that 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:29.680 they were Queensland. 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:34.200 Yes, well they had to do something they did. 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.360 You know, it's positioned perfectly because you come up to freeway, 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:40.200 you see it. Parents must have to distract their children 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.280 because you just want to go when. 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:42.880 I go on the waters. 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.400 Yeah, that's not there anymore. I think they closed that down, 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:50.000 I'm pretty sure. But Queensland and their relationship with water slides, 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.920 because there's a hotter climate, it's warmer up there. They 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:56.760 get a lot of holiday makers from down South Townsvill's 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:58.160 got one. They're all over the shop. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:02.800 I suppose it's amusement moving parts. Either it's not. 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.440 Like a ride, you know, or a chair roller coaster. 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.639 Roller coaster was you know the river Caves or something 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:11.920 like that. It's basically you erect it and bolted together, 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.200 and you know, just every now and then you get 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:15.880 rid of a body. 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.520 But anyway, more getting rid of bodies. 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.639 Let's talk to someone who knows more about us than this. 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.600 Andrew pots is at a Gold Coast Journals. Here's the 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.920 assistant chief of staff for the Gold Coast Bulletin. 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:28.080 How are you? 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:30.680 Yeah, we're both good. Now, how long have you lived 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:31.519 in Queensland? 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:31.560 For? 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:33.160 Andrew in the area. 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.640 For my entire life actually, so I was born on 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.120 the Gold Coast in nineteen eighty seven, so it's been 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:38.520 a while. 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:41.640 What's your first memories of water slides in Queensland? 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:43.280 Well, I mean there were always around. 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.960 Of course we're the perfect place for it with the 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.320 weather and everything, but probably going past the theme parks 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:51.360 that we have here. When I was a little kid, 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.360 so the early nineteen nineties, you'd always see advertised on 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.080 TV big slides that they had at Wet and Wild, 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.720 at the SeaWorld and dream World. 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.120 What's your knowledge of the history. Sure, your parents used 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.280 to talk about it. You're a journalist. Where was the 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.240 first water slide on the Goldie? 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:11.600 The first major water thing we had was probably Caid's 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.760 County water Park, which today is known as Wet and Wild. 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.320 So that opened in late nineteen eighty four. Of course 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:22.200 there was already some small water parks and water features, 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.800 but that was the first really major one that was 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:28.479 entirely based around water slides. That's up at Oxenford. It's 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:29.960 next to what's now Movie World. 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:30.800 Yeah. Yeah. 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:34.360 Then subsequently been ones at SeaWorld and then later at 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.720 dream World. So it's one of those things that the 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.839 gol you might say, has quite the addiction to water slides. 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.640 Are there any waterfalls around that area? 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:44.760 Waterfalls? 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.000 Yeah, because I had this theory that the water slide 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.599 was somebody standing at the top of a waterfall and 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:55.640 then they slipped and they fell down, and somebody said 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:57.000 that looks fantastic. 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:58.960 Right, Yes there are. 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.640 Yeah, if you go up to curumbin Valley, there's a 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:04.599 thing called the Crumb and Rock Pools and that's got 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.800 some waterfalls there and little rapids that go into the 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:08.680 main body of water. 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:10.080 It could be right. 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.120 I remember Grundies now that that was eighties, wasn't it 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:14.200 that had the water slide? 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.120 It certainly did. Yeah. Grundies is actually a really good example. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:21.239 So the brainchild of TV producer Reg Grundy, who later 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:25.000 went on to produce Neighbors, among many other things. But 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.080 he decided in the eighties that he wanted to open 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.760 a theme park on the Gold Coast. But unlike the 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.120 ones that we have today, this was almost entirely indoors, 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.120 with one exception water slides. So if you look at 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.240 the Service Paradise beachfront where the Cavil Mall is today, 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.520 you know there's a famous Service Paradise sign. 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:42.400 That wasn't there yet. 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:46.839 So huge three four story tall floods which they called 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:47.719 the flumes. 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.480 Oh right, I remember that. Now this is the one. 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.320 Now I thought this was an urban meath Brad remember 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.280 the story someone put a razor blade in the water 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.520 slide and kids got injured? Did that actually happen there? 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.359 Well, that was actually the thing. It was always widely 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:07.279 understood as an urban legend. However, I've met numerous people 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.760 over the years who worked at Grundies in the early 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:13.240 eighties and they swear up and down it happened, and 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:17.080 it happened there. The rumor was that they were a 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.400 couple of lazor blades were stuck with I think chewing 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:23.080 gum into some of the rivets coming down that slide. 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.080 But I've never I've never been able. I've never found 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.080 anyone that actually says it happened to them. 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.120 Wrong with people they went around when we were kid, 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:32.000 I just assumed it was. 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.839 I believed too that somebody ramly scissors A movie world. 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:37.320 Yeah happened as well. 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:39.320 I've never heard that one really. 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.120 Dream world had the Blue Lagoon? Is it still there? 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.120 It closed in about two thousand and six when they 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.320 opened White Water World. But if I'm not mistaken, the 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:51.400 physical remains of the Blue Lagoon are still at the 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.919 back of the park, but they've been closed and inaccessible 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:54.440 for years. 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.760 It would make a great episode of Scooby Doo. 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:02.240 Yes, I've gotten away with of these damn kids. Now, 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.400 how much do you reckon? It's part of the tourist 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.760 attraction of the Gold Coast and just in Queensland in general, 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:08.960 that is the phenomenon of water slides and theme parks. 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.000 It must be a huge bonus, is it? 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:11.680 Very much so? 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.200 I mean theme parks of course are a massive part 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.440 of our economy, going back to the nineteen sixties and 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.720 nineteen seventy, so back then we had a chairlift. Actually 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:24.520 that went up the Miami Hill and then that later 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:26.360 became Magic Mountain theme Park. 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.200 Ah, yes, yes. 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.440 Which was a massive deal in the nineteen eighties particularly, 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.760 And here's a little fun factoid for you. So their 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:38.960 mascot with a character called Raymondo Rabbit. I actually own 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.440 one of the two Raymondo Rabbit suits. 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.440 Wow, are you trying to get that other one? 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:47.600 I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:48.040 to that one. 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.840 So I've got the suit and I picked it up 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.280 a couple of years ago for one hundred bucks on 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:57.920 Facebook Marketplace. And I've had people ask if I perhaps 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.760 wanted to part with it, but no, it's the collection. 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.000 Yeah, that's fantastic, sir. You like an amateur story and 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.600 this is great. My memory of the first theme park 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.320 I went to in Queensad was SeaWorld. 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:08.960 That was it. 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:10.960 It was, Yeah, So that was founded by a guy 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:15.600 called Keith Williams who had founded a thing called the 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:20.080 Ski Gardens out in Krara on the Nerang River, and 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:24.040 he then I think it's nineteen seventy four, relocated to 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.960 the now SeaWorld site and then yeah, he installed a 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:29.160 bunch of slides there. 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.120 The dolphins and it sort of just grew from there. 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:33.480 I don't know if you remember this. 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:37.040 But back in about nineteen ninety they had the Cast 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.760 of Neighbors come up to the Gold Coast from Erinsborough 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:43.800 and visit SeaWorld for reasons I don't remember at this point, 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.160 and there's lots of loving shots of the cast going 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.040 down the slides. It was used as quite a big 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.280 marketing tool for the Gold Coast, both for I suppose 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.440 people around Australia and for the UK audience as. 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:58.000 A general Queensland resident and journo. Have you noticed in 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.600 the last say ten to fifteen years, not just the 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.560 Gold Coast have gone onto water slides. There seems to 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.320 be a lot of water slides because we're talking about 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:08.360 Mount iSER. Have you noticed that I have? 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:09.480 Yeah, absolutely, yeah. 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.840 I think it's probably something to do with it's a 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:14.240 cheaper thing to build these days than it was back 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.800 in the nineteen seventies and nineteen eighties. I mean even 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:20.440 caravan parks these days often have them. Yeah, that used 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.679 to be quite unusual. Some of these parks have like 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.000 really intricate structures, so it's pretty cool. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.280 I was talking about this with Dave is there one 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.040 that's embedded into the mountain. 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:31.840 There used to be one in the mountain in the 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.040 Sunshine Coast. I reckon it was like a swirly like 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:35.959 a snake on the side of a mountain as you 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.199 drove along the namboor yeahah. 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:39.640 I know, I know the one you're talking about. I 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:41.560 don't remember the name of it. I remember going up 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:43.360 to the Sunny Coast when I was a kid and 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.120 they'd advertise it on TV and you'd see the people 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.679 going down it, and I was always really jealous. 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.040 Because I always sort of looked really really cool. 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:52.840 Andrew, thanks for talking to us. That's fantastic, no problem 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.319 at all. How it help Andrew pots that year. He 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:56.760 knew his stuffed didn't. 0:09:56.480 --> 0:10:00.920 He sure did. I bet that's very exciting at parties too. 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:01.319 Well. 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.000 He knows a lot about water slides, that's fantastic. 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.240 But he knows a lot about just Queensland history in general, 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.360 and not just the academic stuff. He knows the kitchies stuff, 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.360 which I love. You know, who started SeaWorld all that 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:12.680 kind of. 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.880 Stuff, And unlike us, because he's a journalist, that would 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:17.000 have all been fact checked. 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:21.600 Yes, he's succinct. Yeah, so man iSER water slides. Queensland 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.319 seems to be all fine, But Brad, you can't open 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.440 up something that a nearby town has already got, or 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.960 can you? Because an hour down the road from maun 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.400 iSER is a place called klon Curry. It's not as 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.320 big as Mount iSER yep, but they do have a 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:38.160 water slide. 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:39.800 Size is relevant. 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.320 Well, let's hear from Daniel Slay, the former mayor of 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.520 Mount iSER. Yeah, they get a bit obsessed by clon Curry. 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.680 Clon Curry has the great water sligne, but it suits 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:52.440 their population, which is four thousand people and it's quite small. 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.720 So that was what was being suggested to us as 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.560 a one million dollar water slide. So I knew that 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:03.600 we need to go bigger, bigger better. We needed all 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:05.960 these communities that are all around Manizer, and we are 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.600 the hub for the whole north West Stripe. There's nothing 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.559 for nine hundred k's away, so we need a reason 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:13.440 for them to come and use their water slide. Because 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.800 if we've got the same size water slide as klon Curry, 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:17.880 just go to klan Curry and use their water slide. 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.680 But we've got twenty thousand people, so we need something 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:21.360 bigger and better. 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:23.559 Well, we all want something bigger and better, don't we. 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.520 Brad, We're sure. Remember there was a push many many 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:26.959 years ago. 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.680 If you don't know about the fairy penguins in Philham Island, 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.720 it's a ninety one hundred minute drive down to see. 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:33.840 The massive tourist attraction. 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.840 Yeah, but people were talking about trying to get them closer. 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:42.360 You just get the popular ones and you move them 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:43.160 and the others follow. 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.160 Commedians to do a routine. We used just said they're 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.600 all robots because the thirteenth one always falls over the 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:48.400 great colon cold. 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.720 Yes, stump penguins, yes. 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.880 Stunt penguins, yes, noting about penguins though, no, sorry, no, 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.520 that's all right. They do they do slide, They do slide, 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:59.480 they do, and they've often they can often use in 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:00.880 water slide advertising as well. 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:02.679 Penguins exactly. 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.880 Okay, So clon Curry, well we need to go to 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:07.640 the source. We need to actually speak to someone in 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.320 clon Curry. There's no one better though than the mayor. 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:12.320 Do you want to come into places as give you 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:12.959 a shoulder? 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.000 Greg Campbell, mayor of the Cloncurry Shire clon Curry was 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.760 here first where over one hundred and fifty years old. 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.000 Man iSER was one hundred I think last year. You know, 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.360 most things that has grown man iSER has come from 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:25.920 clon Curry. 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:28.760 Their radio was started with. 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:32.120 Great assistance from the Clonkerry Radio Committee. But the two 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:35.160 places work together. You know, the man iSER Radio is 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.720 only really as good as far as the competitors go 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:42.080 because it's the weekend after the clon Carry one and 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.280 the mine and the smelter, and that side of man 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.920 Isa only works really well now because of all the 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:51.040 copper concentrate coming from the Cloncerry Shire going up to 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.280 keep it full. So you know, we really work well together, 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:58.199 even though from Cloncurry we know that clon Carry West 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:00.439 is just a suburb of c Curry. 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:02.640 WO it's fighting words, isn't it? 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:04.199 And I love a bit of rivalry. 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:08.600 What other famous I mean in football's Carlton, Collingwood, Fort Holden. 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:11.640 There's not two giant prawns that's Bana. 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:13.439 Was there a prawn and a yabby? 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:15.880 I think there might be. There's only one giant pineapple 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:16.760 that's in Naanbore. 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.520 But also see the thing here isn't necessarily that the 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:25.840 rivalry is the actual critter so much as it's the giant. 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:30.359 You know, there's a giant marina, a giant sheep in yas. 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:31.960 Giant strawberry and yours shep. 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.440 Yeah and so and all these things that they're trying 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:37.240 to lure people there. Other kids can go and play 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.760 on a giant banana or yabby. I think there's two bananas. 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.920 There's another banana part from the Cops Harbor one which 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:47.400 isn't even that big medium sized banana. 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:48.760 It was and it was green and. 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:53.320 It goes brown in summer. Okay, so there's a there's 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:55.600 a rivalry between Matt Arjen and clon Curry, But hey, 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:57.760 there's been no mention of the water side. What is 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.800 the mayor of Klon curry Greek Camp what does he 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:03.240 think about when he hears about man Eyes is going 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:04.280 to get a water slide. 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:06.680 We had a bit of a smirk when we heard that. 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:08.439 You know, there was a caveat that it just had 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.719 to be better than clon Curry's and we knew they. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.280 Could probably be bigger, it might be brighter, but. 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:15.800 It was never going to be better because it was 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.760 just in Mount een oOoOO. 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:22.520 Finding words, but that is commensurate with population. Yes, clon 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.600 Curry is only a few thousand people. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.360 Three thousand I think three thousand, and maunt Eyes is 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:29.120 twenty or something, So you. 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.920 Could argue that you would have to build a bigger one. 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:33.600 And then one of klon Curry's not staffed. It's just 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.800 sits there. They don't need attendance, that don't. 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:37.880 Need don't need a lifesaver on Jinny, Yeah. 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:39.480 I've seen it. I was there with him and it's 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:40.960 not bad. You can hear the water slide in the 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.440 background as we're chatting. So man Ey doesnt want to 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.600 build a bigger and better one than Cloncurry. Has there 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:50.680 been any examples in Australia near the World of a 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.680 town getting a water slide as a tourist attraction. I mean, 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.280 obviously we spoke to Andrew about the Gold Coast. That's 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.240 obviously different. There's a big urban area, there's heaps of 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.680 theme parks, but a small town getting a water slide. 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:03.960 Have you heard of anything, Brat, I have not, Dave, 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.280 have you? Well, there is a place in w a 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:10.680 good Colan, remote w A and they got a water 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:14.080 slide which changed their tourism. Ah, should we talk to 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:14.680 someone from there. 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.120 Okay, and just before we talk to that person, thing 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:22.400 about having the water slide as an attraction. If you 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.840 have to sell it to people, which we'll discuss later, 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.760 then that is a unique selling point to people to say. 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:32.760 You know, it's like that episode of The Simpsons, the monorail. 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.280 It's like saying to people, we're gonna have water slide. 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.640 Oh yeah, why don't care. It would be bigger than Cloncurry. 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.840 I'm in yes, yes. 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:45.880 Yes, And what's Springfield's of course arrival in the Simpsons Selbyville. 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:49.680 Let's ring someone from Cooland and talk to them about 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:56.800 their water slide. We've got John Bell on the line. 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.680 He's from Corland. Good afternoon, Well, good morning. Where you are? 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.040 Good morning? How are you this morning? 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:03.640 Tell everyone where is calling it? 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:03.800 In? 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:07.520 W A christ As three hundred kilometers from Albany, three 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:12.640 hundred kilometers from Bumbree, three hundred kilometers from Perth, three. 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:13.720 Hundred kumeters from everywhere? 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:14.520 Yeah, sound of it. 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.560 Oh, it's fantastic. We're so close to every coast. 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:22.920 So, John, you involved in getting a water slide for cooling. 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:24.400 So who came up with the idea? 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.280 Well? Really, I think it came from the school. 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:28.360 The school kids. 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.280 Were sort of asked what they thought they needed in 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.000 the town to make it a good town to live 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.960 in or you know, make it right up with everyone else. 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.600 And one of the parents bought it to this Shire 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:41.680 council of which I was a member at the time, 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.720 and we thought, well that's a good idea. So half 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:48.160 my own bat I did three trips east to see 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.880 if we could find one secondhand, because I knew some 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:52.280 over there were being pulled down. 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:53.600 Where did you find it? 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.480 Well, that one came from Budroam. It was a tan 0:16:56.560 --> 0:17:00.400 of our water slide originally right and a church group 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.480 I believe had bought the site to have a church 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:05.760 to run and still run the church in the buildings, 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.200 but they didn't want to slide there and. 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.959 So you arranged for it to be bought and are 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:15.000 transported to Corlan. I did all that, yep, And I 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:16.960 don't want to be vulgar. But how much roughly was 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:18.600 the water? How much is it? Because it's quite a 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:20.440 big water slide, isn't it looking at the photos? 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:26.000 Oh? Yes, eighteen menace tall, spiral Wow spiral water slide 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:26.880 and Menace tall. 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.040 How much was that how much would that set me back? 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:33.359 Well, well, really we only paid twenty five grand for it. Wow, 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:35.080 you can buy a lot of things when they need 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:36.280 pulling down and shifting. 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:36.720 Yeah. 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:41.240 I organized some trailers and trucks and some volunteers to 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.800