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"Boring.Boring.Boring."
Yeppoon is a small town situated on the coast about half an hour from the super exciting,cowboy central Rockhampton.It's primarily thrives on catering for retirees.There is very little for younger generations to do.No movies,music,very limited choice of modern food.Not much shopping.The main street and gardens looks disgusting.The surf club doesn't function.The sailing club is where all the elderly pour all their money into the pokies,not much else happens there except for the disgusting food.Don't go to the pubs,they are all run down,disgusting and full of addicts.One has just had glass banned from the entire premises.So unless you like beer in a plastic cup...
The beaches are ok.Nothing special.The best parts of the area are the untouched islands off the coast.If you have a boat.Great keppel has some nice beaches,don't bother with staying there.The resort has been shutdown.It was a disgusting cesspool of a place.I can't believe i worked there.Though not for long.Honestly if you wern't ripped off,didn't catch a disease in the pool or get the runs from the food you were a lucky one.Anway this isn't a review of their malpractices.There are good,honest people here.Most of them struggling to survive in an area where tourism has failed.Most afternoons the streets are a ghosttown.If you are over 65 in can see how this place may appeal.You have a bowls club,sailing club with buffet and pokies.The nursing home overlooks the water,though not for much longer.why do the elderly need to take up valuable beachfront land says the council.Lastly you can play golf.So to sum it up.If you are a kid,you will probably end up doing what all the other kids do in yeppoon.Growing and smoking marijuana.Getting drunk.Street racing.Lots of fornication and pregnant at 15 is the in thing here.Go the baby bonus.If you are late twenties to mid forties you might as well book a room at the nursing home early.It's the busiest your social life will get.If you are over that age you probably think you have already passed on and are in heaven!
Who lives here?
- Retirees
Yeppoon isn't so bad, Keppel is a beautiful place. There are some valid points from JPW though, there seems to be a big bottleneck in developments here. The Keppel resort has stalled for far too long, the strand development is still under negotiations after years of failed promises, and our council is too short sighted to see potential on the coast. There is very little entertainment for families and children.
There are some signs that things are going to move ahead though, so given a year or two, as long as the right choices are made, this community will take off. When you consider that the population here has increased at least 20% in the last 4 years or so and new estates are still being constructed at full steam, the community won't be able to be held back much longer. The council needs to pressure developers into following through on approved proposals rather than holding the approvals as some kind of futures investment.
Wow that sounds terrible! It looks nice on the map, close to the water etc...
I was in Rockhampton a few months ago its a nice area, would have thought Yeppoon would be similar?