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Seahorse Nippers delight By Margie Maccoll Surf conditions were both challenging and exhilarating for the second annual Seahorse Nippers Festival as participants from surf clubs the length of the Queensland Coast joined together with supporters and family members at Noosa Main Beach last Saturday morning. Forty-six participants and 87 supporters including 60 from Noosa took part in a series of beach events including a modified boot camp, obstacle course, wheelchair flags races and piggy back races. Water events were reduced to wave activities but participants were all smiles as they relished their time with their life saver supporters in the high tide and surging waves. Candice enjoys the waves at the Seahorse Nippers Festival, with supporters from Noosa and North Burleigh. (Rob Maccoll)
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Cyclone watch... Noosa is on cyclone watch with Tropical Cyclone Alfred expected to cross the Queensland coast between the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane Thursday evening or Friday morning bringing significant wind, rain and coastal hazard impacts. Noosa Council activated its Local Disaster Coordination Centre on Monday in preparation for the category 2 system and closed its holiday parks at Noosa River, Boreen Point and Noosa North Shore, urging campers and caravaners to leave. On Tuesday most heeded the advice. At Noosa River holiday park, holidaymakers were packing up and heading home, many returning to homes in Brisbane to prepare for the cyclone’s arrival
there, while some decided to ride out the storm at the park. Council will shut down operation of the Noosa North Shore vehicle ferry from 6pm Wednesday night. Waste transfer stations have already closed at Pomona and Cooroy and will shut at Eumundi Road from midday on Thursday. Residential Wheelie bins normally collected on Thursday and Friday won’t be emptied and residents are asked to secure their bins on their properties by 4pm Wednesday to prevent them becoming projectiles in high winds. Those ser-
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vices will be collected on Monday. The State Emergency Service (SES) opened public pick-up points for free sand and bags for filling and advised people living in low-lying areas to consider filling sandbags in case of flooding and to meet demand Council opened a further sandbag filling station at the boat ramp, Gympie Terrace, Noosaville. Unitywater is encouraging the community to store water ahead of Cyclone Alfred in case of water outages across the region. Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) senior meteorologist Miriam Bradbury said gale force winds
were likely to develop over Wednesday with the cyclone having turned toward the coast. Ms Bradbury said the cyclone was expected to bring destructive winds gusts, heavy rain and flooding and damaging surf and abnormally high tides which can lead to local inundation. “We’re already seeing large waves, sea and swell. It will be growing as the cyclone nears the coast Thursday and Friday with wave heights pushing up to 7m, 8m or 9m and producing incredibly dangerous conditions on the water,” she said. Continued page 4
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