Welcome to: Benny's Brisbane Skateboard Directory The site for skaters in Brisbane, Australia Compiled by Mark Brimson     Coolum Skate Park   2 hrs north of Brisbane   Built: 1998   Address: David Low Way (on beach front)   I really do not know much about this place. I did skate it once in early 1999 and it had looked nicely worn in but as to its current state, I would not know. Being right on the beach front on the main road beside the caravan park, just behind a rather large grassed bank, the Coolum park is very susceptible to the coastal weather. The day I was there, it was a lovely fine day, but the kids said it often gets windy and not a fun place to be when all the sand that is around the park gets in bearings or eyes. It is quite close to shops, drinking fountain, coast bus and pretty much everything you could need.   It is to some a rather limited park, the ramps being metal and the flat bitumen with sand always creeping over the edges of everything, but if you think of a "T" shape, the bottom of the T being a big quarter, about 6ft with just a folded metal edge (grindable like a normal ramp but without coping, that is). The two arms of the T have small quarters 3-4ft very narrow, and I think they were hipped, facing back out into the park, but I could be wrong. I know the middle top of the T had a 3 way quarter hip arrangement, same height and narrow width of the side ones but with nicer transitions and the same folded metal edge as all the rest of the ramps. It was all quite easy to skate, but at the top of the T, the ramps are bordered in by a wooden retaining wall. This in itself is fine, but with the ramps being so narrow, I had a couple of near misses and at least one kid didn't land something right and went straight into the wooden wall while I was there. They might have put some more things in since, but with no banks, rails or other things and only quarters of two different sizes, many people would not really want to skate there. Hooray for the transitions and those who do skate them (like myself).   (I have no pics of this park yet)     email me at:   mbrimson@yahoo.com ***** (click here to send me mail) *****   Click the "BACK" button to return to the previous menu.