Skydive Ramblers celebrates impressive new club house at airport
September 26, 2011
Today the Skydive Ramblers team celebrated the opening of their new club house at the Sunshine Coast Airport, which is expected to attract visitors to the Coast to experience one of the country’s most impressive skydive sites.
The half a million dollar club house was constructed thanks to the contribution of a $100K Australian Tourism Development Program (ATDP) grant and has long been a dream of Ramblers owners, Susie McLachlan and her dad, Dave McEvoy.
“The new club house will become a vibrant hub where passionate skydivers can congregate, irrespective of whether they have done thousands of jumps or if they are trying a tandem for the first time,” said Susie who has done over 2,600 jumps and is an Australian gold and silver medallist for formation skydiving.
“This facility gives us the opportunity to welcome people & make them feel comfortable about jumping out of our “perfectly good plane”, we can train people in a custom-designed environment and then have a laugh with our customers and their family & friends when they review the video of their jump on the big screens straight after their jump”, says Susie.
“It provides a central location for anyone interested in the sport to come along and get a taste of just how much fun it is to be involved. We’ll be having regular skydiving movie nights, seminars, social bbqs, charity fundraisers and we’re also planning on making the Clubhouse facility available as a venue for businesses & organisations to hire.”
The bright blue club house on the corner of Airport drive and Kittyhawk Close is sure to grab people’s attention as they travel to and from the Airport and the club house is expected to become a significant attraction for the Coast.
Skydive Ramblers is one of the Coast’s most established, family-run tourism businesses taking people up to enjoy the Coast skydiving experience since 1972. In addition to the new airport location, they have skydiving centres in Toogoolawah and Rainbow Beach which collectively facilitate approximately 20,000 skydives per year.
“The clubhouse location on the airport is ideal, it allows us to board our aircraft quickly & easily and we’re able to take advantage of the great weather conditions as they happen, so ultimately we can take up more loads and get more people’s hair in the air!. We’re Famous For Fun and we’re all about giving our skydiving customers the best possible skydiving experience ever, the Clubhouse is a fabulous tool, ” said Susie.
“We anticipate that our club house will become a major tourist attraction for the Coast in the years to come and welcome anyone interested in finding out more to pop in and say hello to the team.”
Around 100 guests were in attendance at the opening which was officiated by Mayor Bob Abbot. For more information on Skydive Ramblers please visit www.skydiveforfun.com.au.
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