Colder Months See Sunny Coasters Embrace Alternate Form Of Entertainment: Bumps On Sunshine Motorway

SANDY FRASER | Youth | CONTACT

As Australia well and truly begins its shift from autumn to winter, the country’s coastal town populations prepare to enter the time of year where there’s really fuck-all to do. 

There may be some nutters that frequent the beach all through winter, but for those with their heads screwed on right, getting in the water is out of the question. 

So, those living on the coast have to seek out alternate forms of entertainment. And perhaps no one has that figured out better than Sunny Coasters. 

Somewhere on the Sunshine Motorway, between Coolum Beach and the turn off for the airport, there’s three bumps on the road that are just great for entertainment during these colder months.  

It’s kind of like a mini rollercoaster. If you take your mind off it a bit and forget where you are you’ll get an awesome little stomach drop. 

Since the motorways construction in the early 90s, locals have passed around folklore about how the bumps came to be, with the most plausible theory suggesting they’re there to make sure the senile population keep on doing half the speed limit as they usually do. 

However, there’s actually no need to slow down, and even if there was, the remaining residents would probably refuse anyway considering if they did there’d be well and truly nothing to do during winter anymore. 

As the Sunshine Coast continues to navigate the mass closure of some of their best venues, experts say the motorway infrastructure will continue to provide entertainment regardless of season for decades to come.