Palm Cove News

November 2004



Big scoop for Cove

FIVE Palm Cove restaurants are listed in the prestigious Australian Gourmet Travellers Restaurant Guide for 2005. They are Far Horizons, Sebel, Spice Market, Tamaras, and Nu Nu.
To have so many restaurants listed for such a small place is exceptional, new president of Tourism Palm Cove Buddy Byrd said.
"It's an outstanding achievement," he said. "Palm Cove has become a haven for dining and spa fans. This has been pivotal in our positioning of Palm Cove as a highly desirable sub-destination in Tropical North Queensland."
Only three restaurants, Far Horizons, Sebel and Spice Market, were listed last year.

Letter from Tourism Queensland

To Tourism Palm Cove,

Congratulations, Ladies and Gentlemen. A wonderful accolade for a great gourmet indulgence destination.
All the hard work over the years is now paying dividends. You all know what I think of Palm Cove but the success has only happened because of dedicated people who had vision and passion. I remember only four years back when I first started with TQ we struggled to have the few Palm Cove restaurants on the esplanade stay open all year. Look at Palm Cove now.
I wish you all continued success in further cementing Palm Cove as THE INDULGENCE DESTINATION, not just in TNQ but in Queensland.
Rick Matkowski, Senior Manager Destination Marketing, Tourism Queensland. (Rick calls himself "an unabashed Palm Cove devotee.

TPC Events

Tourism Palm Cove Committee has advised the following upcoming events :

* A possible food and beverage festival next year. President Buddy Byrd said : "The listing of five restaurants will create a solid food and beverage basis for which to motivate our award-winning restaurants in organising a festival ........we'll see."

* Australia Day next year will be celebrated at Palm Cove instead of Yorkey's Knob, outgoing president Alex Whyte said. The event at Yorkey's had turned into something special, attracting large crowds.

* New Year's Eve fireworks will again be a family night with the majority of displays planned for 9pm and a smaller yet effective display at midnight. Confirmation from authorities to come.



Birds - a wedding bonus

WHEN attending a wedding at Cairns Tropical Zoo's chapel, you can look out the side windows and possibly see the popular Free Flight Bird Show, says marketing manager Larry Russell.
"We've had great success with our Wildlife Wedding Chapel conducting some 350 weddings in the last financial year with 56 in October," he said.
Larry said Palm Cove had become a really popular place for people from all over the globe wanting to tie the knot.
"If you take into account the weddings conducted at Reef House, Novotel, Angsana and the like, the figures must be quite astounding, he said.

All of Palm Cove's wedding chapels are non-denominational using wedding celebrants, although priests and ministers of religion occasionally conduct the ceremony.

Palm Cove's resident wedding celebrant is Nicola ("Nikki") Beulke.

How far south is Palm Cove?

THAKRAL'S purchase of Daikyo's 60 ha of land between Palm Cove and Clifton Beach has raised the question of how much of this land is in Palm Cove.
The answer, according to the Department of Natural Resources and Mines, is all of it.
Gazetted under The Place Names Act, the legal boundary between the two suburbs between the beach and the highway is a more-or-less straight line joining the northern ends of Upolu Esplanade, Osterland St, Linden St and the highway.
Put another way, all the homes existing at present in Upolu Esplanade, Osterland St, and Linden St are in Clifton Beach but only just. Any homes built north of these homes will be in Palm Cove.

Interested readers can obtain a free copy of the official map at 52 Terebra St.

Letters to Editor

PRIVACY

I have to agree with Peter Parkinson (Oct ed.) regarding privacy for residents. I am sure high profile people would not like a constant barrage of enquiries as to their residential/investing activities. I certainly wouldn't.

John Alsop, Oliva St.

HOUSE SWAP

We are thinking of coming to Palm Cove for our holidays next year and have two houses potentially available for people keen to swap a Palm Cove holiday for a winter ski holiday in Wanaka. Anyone interested?

Michael Ross, mross@waitaki.govt.nz


INCOGNITO

Glenn Warner of the PO handed Yvonne of Hartley's Creek her mail last month to be told a mysterious visitor in hat, wig, and sunglasses was caught watching the crocodile show. And who was this incognito visitor?........Steve Irwin.

TAVERN UNITS ON HOLD

HEDLEY GROUP'S plans for units on its carpark between the tavern and Oliva St have been put on hold. The company will reassess the project in mid 2005.

"Budget" Double Island

WHEN Tiger Woods married Swedish model Elin Nordegren last month, he rented the entire luxury Sandy Lane Resort in Barbados for their 120 guests.
The 200 rooms usually cost from $US700 ($A1,000) to $US8,000 ($A11,500) a night, say about $A250,000 for one night all told or $A1,250 per room.
This compares with Double Island's $21,000 a night for 50 rooms or $424 per room. Who said Double Island was expensive?
Used occasionally by various groups, Double Island had its only wedding this year when on May 16 bride Kylie Oldfield arrived by helicopter.
Eighty family members and friends saw her marry Ivo Perotta of Perotta's At The Gallery restaurant, City. The lavish meal, understandably, was seven-course. The happy couple travelled the world for two months on honeymoon.

 

Published by Jerry Dukes
52 Terebra St
Palm Cove 4879 QLD
Ph 4059 1610 Fax 4059 0058
Email : jgdukes@ozemail.com.au
On website : http://www.palmcove.net

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