Friday, 10 July, 2020
Making a difference.
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Tributes flow for shark attack victim
Company reaching for the sky
Music and film make the man
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Meet Tosh, Noosa’s rising star Before Covid-19 struck, cafe’s, bars and restaurants were humming with the sounds of Noosa’s greatest musical talents. One young musician awaiting to make a comeback is 13-year-old Tosh Kachad, who is determined to bring the sweet, seductive sound of jazz music back to the streets of Noosa. With the helping hand of some of the greatest names in music history, a good head on his shoulders and a supportive family behind him, Tosh is bound to be a star. Pulling inspiration from the likes of Herbie Hancock, Led Zeppelin and The Who, Tosh’s love for music seeps deep into many genres, exploring the rhythms and melodies until they become a part of his being, but his soul yearns towards the jazz scene. Turn to page 4 to read his story.
Tosh Kachad in his element. Picture: ROB MACCOLL
‘Making’ waves A proposal for a low-impact wave pool facility on Noosa’s North Shore currently being considered by council is sure to raise the hackles of a few of our veteran environment warriors, the North Shore having been one of the more public battlefields over the years. But on close examination, the proposal, by Noosa’s Mark Bain Constructions, ticks many of the boxes for sustainable development in
a “visitor mixed use” zone, and fits our tourism industry ethos of “value over volume”. It certainly deserves more consideration than the dismissive, “We don’t want a Wet and Wild theme park in Noosa”, which came out of initial discussions with council. I’m not a staunch advocate of wave pools, particularly those on a grand industrial scale - on my only visit to Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch in Central California I was appalled by the lumbering, noisy freight train that thundered
across the valley to deliver the wave - but I do know enough about them to appreciate that there are pools around the world built to scale into an existing environment with minimal impact. If you think that every wave park has to look like Slater’s Surf Ranch or Melbourne Airport’s monstrous UrbnSurf, you need to look more closely. In fact Wave Garden, the company that designed the Tullamarine mega-park, is the world leader in the field and has designed
most of the existing pools considered ecofriendly, including the company’s research and development facility in the hills outside San Sebastian in northern Spain. I visited the site in Spain a few years ago, just as construction started on the facility, and frankly I wondered how it would fit into the landscape. Pictures of it now tell the story, but for clarification I contacted my friend Dave Mailman in France: Continued on page 6
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By Phil Jarratt