Trinity Beach, Cairns
 

I'm looking at a property at Trinty Beach, Cairns. It's in the Bluewater Estate which is a couple of minutes from the beach.

Seems like a nice area. Anyone know anything about it?

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I was told there was quite a bit of trouble there when we were booking our holiday.

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We are living at Trinity Beach at the moment, lovely place to live. Blue Water estate is pretty exclusive far as I can tell, they are building man made water ways so residents can moor their boats next to the house, some blocks without moorings will be cheaper. Another new development which is nearer the actual beach is the Blue Lagoon, it has apartments and also building blocks located around small lake.

Don't anything about any 'trouble' always seems tranquil to me :)

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Thanks Fraser.
What kind of trouble? Hoons? General Bogan wankers?

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Cool. The property does not have a mooring but is just back from that.

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We've only been living here a few weeks but not seen any evidence of any of those. There is a useful little shopping centre, restaurants and a nice pub on the seafront. Big shopping centre at Smithfield about ten minutes away. Takes only about 20 minutes to get to the city.

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A lot of pissed indigenous people. We were going to book a hotel there and an old time poster who ping ponged there told me.

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Not seen anything like that. I've been in Cairns a few months now and there are places where I either wouldn't want to live or would expect to find that particular spectrum of society but Trinity Beach is not one of them.

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No worries.

Have you been on a reef cruise yet? If so can you recommend one for small kids please?

Sorry Amazulu;)

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Blue Water? Part of that's being built right behind my house. Isn't the part of Blue Water with the moorings more in Trinity Park than Trinity Beach?

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Blue Water is Trinity Park.
Waterfront yes, but no beach that I have seen.
It's some developement.
If you can afford it I reckon it would be a damned good investment.
Probably better than Cardwell.
Both places are low lying so same in terms of flood risks.

Blue Lagoon is Trinity Beach. Had a bit of trouble with that development as the lake took over a piece of a creek that is croc territory. They still come to visit and enjoy the new man made lake.

Have heard of no trouble at either Trinity Park or Beach during our 3 years here. We could happily live at either place.

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Thanks for that - you know the area well. It does look like a good investment - I'm probably going to go for it.

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Reckon you could be right, Far North Qld is deemed as a huge growth area, and investments on a PUDDLE or near a wet fart, will reap rewards !


http://www.blue-water.com.au/maps.htm#

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We stayed at the Coral sands resort at Trinity Beach and had a very good time. Lovely beach too.

Jo

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bluewater estate will eventually join trinity beach although accessed from trinity park at present. bluewater canal ( the water bit infested with sand flies) is trinity park. when looking at an investment look carefully. blocks in there start at $200,000. pretty ordinary house to build would be atleast $300,000 by the time it all fenced and lanscaped. throw a pool in and thats another $40,000 by the time you have fenced it. then stamp duty. trinity park was and still is the worsed placed on the northen beaches for druggies and tose less fortunate in life.you will see all the shit housing as you drive down reed road. trinity beach does have a little strip where kids hoon back and forth(the wife did a 3 month stint at smithfield station earlier in the year)

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fark..

Goes to show, you dont know all this from a website, sounds like a bad area.

Should clean up, as money and infrastructure move in?

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it will in time. as the money poors in the poor will be pushed out. by the standards of northern england its got nothing. its a nice spot,especially half moon beach at the bottom of reed road. in the same 3 months in the next beach over (kewarra, where we live) ther were no reported bulgaries. we ourselves have just bought a block in trinity beach only 200 metres from our home now.

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Smithfield Village which is being built just behind Bluewater in Trinity Park is looking as though it will be a good place, although it is still partly a building site right now.

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sorry i forgot a bit. infastructure? this aint the great south east. very little gets spent on infastructure up here. funny how they build dams down south where there is no water and we discharge over a billion litres a day from ours

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smithfield village has a good location to amenities and services and is reasonably affordable but its 500 metres north west of the tip. the prevailing wind is south east. just imagine.

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sorry.. in my day infrastructure, was roads, public services etc..

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cairns still gets cut off atleast twice every wet season so i guess theres no money there. public services i guess would be things like hospitals. i hope i never get cancer as it will be a 400km drive to townsville for treatment. again no money i guess. public transport is non existant. anyone who has ever tried to rely on the sunbus will tell you that.not a rant just a few of the realities of living in cairns.

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The lack of cancer specialists (and neurologists incidentally) is more to do with not being able to employ someone to fill the posts, rather than lack of money. Having said that, Townsville does seem to get the lion's share of the Northern Zone's money. There seems to be poor planning in recruitment generally by Qld Health as acute staff shortages don't seem to be anticipated in time... Also, the rapid population growth of Cairns has already outstripped the Base's resources. A new hospital is needed methinks... And for that they will need money...

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Is that the development near Mitre 10 ?

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yes, thats the one bordering the industrial estate.

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Some nice looking houses going up there but yep, a bit close to where I take my crap :p

Better off in Smithfield Heights.

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there are 1300 blocks planned for smithfield village.smithfield heights with rooftop views. beautiful.

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Yeah but the majority of housing in Cairns is built on the flat so virtually no views apart from a fence and a rainforest hillside.
At least on the Heights they can look over the rooves.....if the trees allow.

Do you know if anything is planned up at Red Peak ?
Went in there recently and doesn't look too bad.

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red peak is nice. the blocks start at $400,000 in the next stage. the best blocks with views at the moment would be at paradise palms and there is also a little division of 8 blocks above island view estate in clifton beach.

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hmmm are you sure it was TRINITY beach mate. i can think of other beaches that fit that description :eek: but not trinity. only thing to worry about with trinity is the beach is patrolled by crocs!! :eek:

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Sure it was, but I could be wrong as there's always a first time;)

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We live in Trinity Park, have done for a few months now. Never had any problems.

They could be lying I suppose but according to the local newsletter, Trinity Park has the lowest crime rate of all the Northern Beaches according to the rozzers (clearly not your missus though eh Richy ? I'll admit, it's no Port Douglas !). Maybe all the druggies and less fortunate in life people go to the other beach resorts and nick their stuff and bring it back to TP?

would agree that some of the houses either side of Reed Road could do with some renovation but then again, 90% of the existing houses in the northern beaches (and smithfield for that matter) are block homes with little or now redeeming character or architectural features anyway. a lot aren't even rendered, just painted concrete block. They will sell up in time I suppose as prices go up. There have been a few near us sold for renos and a few more being done up.

All the newer stuff looks better but is generally on smaller blocks that have little yards and not enough room for a pool unless you lose the garden !

From what I have seen, Bluewater estate, or at least the end accessed from Trinity Park is nice but you have to wonder about mossies/sand flies as you walk across the access bridges and look out over the mangroves !
Have spoke to a couple of people who have been there for site visits who had to run for the car ! and that was during the day.

The new marina and surrounding estate looks nice but again backs onto mangroves.

Smithfield Village development is going up behind our back fence and is nice - new estate, smaller houses, cheaper smaller blocks, park, wetlands area for waterfowl/wildlife, couple of play areas (wallabies come out of the bush at night).

I don't think it's anywhere near Mitre10 personally as that's way down the road. that's a different development, accessed from the traffic lights on cook highway near the caltex servo.

Never smelled anything from the tip where we live. There is nothing within 500m of the tip other than the ind. estate next door and the WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT that is being upgraded as part of the Cleaner Seas Project (that I am working on). Don't worry though, all being fitted with Odour Prevention Seals these days so no smells.

Andy

PS - TP does indeed have a lovely unspoilt beach. at the mouth of the creek though so make sure you can swim fast from them crocs !

PPS - Fraser, that travel agent or whoever it was should be shot. and you should know better.

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Should I, why?

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hey andy, have you seen the plan for smithfield village and north point estate ( one mega suburb really). it will end up on top of the tip. i can only go on what the wife tells me and where she found most of her work whilst at smitty. i never said that there was loads of crime in TP. but there are known drug dealers and users who live but that goes for palm cove aswell but nobody asked about palm cove. has sandy retired yet?

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I bought the place. Hopefully I won't regret it!

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Good luck with it, I hope it proves to be a good investment.

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I'm heading over to Cairns on Monday to have a look at this place. Can anyone recommend a good, cheap place to stay for a night?

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The Pacific International
I havent stayed in it, but its in a pretty good central Cairns location from what I can recall, (and the Japs were all over it) std room for Mon 10th is $119 on Wotif.com.au
Std room in the Rydges Esplanade are the same price.

I stayed in the the Mantra Trilogy about 2 years ago and that was pretty good ($140 night) but there has been a fair amount of development gone on around it so unless thats finished it could be fairly noisy early in the morning when they come on site.

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Word on the street is that there are a number of plots in Smithfield Village which have been bought by the council for government housing, so imagine having saved hard all your life to buy a nice house there, and then having some bludgers living next door to you, that spend their entire time pissed, and having domestics - no thanks!

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Oh and i forgot, having worked hard all your life to buy your house, these people gt the house for free, and then trash it!