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GatsbyMAY 2019

TASTE THE GOOD LIFE TURNING OF THE FIRST SOD WELCOME NEW FACES Our kitchens are showstoppers This month, we mark the Meet our new caretakers and - step inside our display official start of construction of some of our latest Beachmere homes to taste the good life Palm Lake Care Beachmere Bay home owners MAY What’s happening

Stay connected You’re invited HAMPTONS MOVIE Here are just some of the regular activities enjoyed by our Welcome THEATRE LUNCHEON Beachmere Bay residents... TUESDAY 14TH MAY | 10AM • Zumba Welcome all to the May edition of • Stretch classes The Gatsby, our monthly catch up • Aqua aerobics on all things happening at Palm • Milon gym Lake Resort Beachmere Bay. •  Indoor & outdoor pools • Saunas There has been loads to report on • Barbecues from the past four weeks. From • Bridge and Canasta clubs a team perspective, we have • Mah-jong club welcomed new caretakers, Wayne and Aileen. The pair Experience our luxury cinema - and celebrate • Line dancing has come to us from a previous caretaking role out near the Grand Opening of our Beach House! • Workshop Broken Hill. We are delighting in showing them around. Contact us You can read more about Wayne and Aileen on Page 6. • Social Club & Coffee catch-up You’re invited to a luxurious cinema experience at Palm Lake Resort • Arts and crafts From a construction perspective, Stage 2 is almost Looking for more Beachmere Bay’s Hamptons Country Club. And while you're here, • Luxury movie theatre complete with new homeowners arriving every week information about take a look through our brand new Beach House. • Golf Beachmere Bay? Here (we now have 120 homeowners in residence in • Bowls are four places you can The Happy Prince, directed by Rupert Everett total). The first slabs are also down in Stage 3 and Sail away WHAT: • Tennis reach us: WHEN: Tuesday, May 14 TIME: 10am The Beachhouse is proving popular, with bookings • Croquet Online: Visit our website RSVP: [email protected] already taken for upcoming birthday and anniversary May 23-26: Sanctuary Cove • Tenpin bowling celebrations. beachmerebay.com.au International Boat Show: Enjoy our plush cinema and after the movie, adjourn to our brand • Billiards The website lists all our Expect a thrill-a-minute Looking ahead, we are gearing up to host a ‘Turning of new waterfront Beach House for drinks and a light lunch. Numbers • Darts home designs, resort over four fun-filled days the First Sod’ ceremony across the road from our resort strictly limited. RSVPs essential. • Table tennis facilities, news, events at the Sanctuary Cove at the site of the new Palm Lake Care Beachmere aged •  Music room & piano and more. You can even International Boat show. caring community. All residents are welcome to join • Beach House take a 3D walk through of Attracting more than 45,000 Palm Lake Group management and local dignitaries at our homes. marine enthusiasts each the ceremony on Friday, May 10 at 10.30am. We will Social media: Follow Palm year, the boat show once International adjourn to morning tea at the Hamptons Country Club Lake Resort on Facebook Now open again looks set to live up Cake Show after the ceremony. to see what’s happening to its reputation as the right across our 25 Palm Southern Hemisphere’s Nestled on the shores of If you are still wondering what your life could look May 17-19: Foodie families, sugar Lake Group locations. premier marine event. With Pumicestone Passage, BIG4 and feel like here at Beachmere Bay, we encourage chiefs, sweet lovers and cake bosses, Street address: Palm more than 300+ exhibitors Sandstone Point Holiday Resort you to make an appointment to walk through our prepare your palettes and get your Lake Resort Beachmere and 500+ watercraft on is the Region's inspiring display homes and get a first-person feel for best cake game on because the Top Bay can be found at 194 display, you’ll be treated to newest accommodation. It the resort grounds. Our five-star facilities really have to Gun of cake decorating are back in Bishop Rd, Beachmere. best-in-class superyachts, offers a range of family-friendly be experienced in real life. Phone the Sales Centre on this month. Australia’s only Freecall: 1800 338 382. fishing boats, trailers, facilities including a water park 1800 338 382 to book a personal tour. We look forward international-standard cake show and There’s no cost to you watercraft, marine tech and a variety of accommodation to seeing you, bayside. arguably the greatest cake decorating and you’ll have our and much more. www. options including ‘glamping’ – competition, International Cake Show Nicole Smith Beachmere Bay Sales experienced Sales Team sanctuarycoveboatshow. and all just a stone's throw from Australia, will be held at Brisbane 1800 338 382 at the other end of the com.au the beach. line. Easy. Showgrounds Exhibition Building, in Bowen Hills. Visit www.acada.com.au Taste the good

MEAL DEAL

Did you know that every home here at Palm Lake Resort Beachmere Bay is allocated a complimentary meal voucher to be redeemed in the on-site dining area each week? It’s a great way to meet some new neighbours and spend quality time with likeminded local friends. LIFE



Your dream kitchen awaits

Here's what you can expect from your luxury Beachmere Bay kitchen:

• SMEG European appliances offer technology with style, which is why they are the obvious choice in all Beachmere Bay homes • 40mm Caesarstone premium benchtops • Canopy rangehood ducted to eaves • Stainless steel double bowl under-mount kitchen sink • High quality chrome tapware • Instant hot and cold Billi tap • Wide fridge cavity (1000mm), plumbed with a water supply • Soft close drawers and doors • 2 pac paint finishes, which mean the Hamptons-styled cupboard doors and drawer fronts stand up to the rigours of kitchen life • Designer cupboard door handles • Tiled splashbacks Welcome, caretakers What they say...

While we can tell you how amazing Beachmere Bay is, it's our homeowners Palm Lake Resort Beachmere Bay who really know just how good life can be here by the Bay... welcomed new caretakers in recent weeks – have you met Aileen and Wayne yet? PETER & DIANNE (Villa 113) Aileen and Wayne Morris will tell you that they are living the dream. Arriving on the doorstep of Palm Lake Resort "Until July last year we Beachmere Bay last month to take over as on-site constantly travelled around caretakers, Aileen says the resort itself immediately wowed Australia looking for our place them.“It’s just magnificent and truly stunning,” Aileen says. to retire. Then we came to Palm Lake Resort Beachmere The pair arrived at Beachmere from their previous role Bay and, for the very first out near Broken Hill, as caretakers of Copi Hollow Lake time, it felt right. It felt like Caravan Park at Menindee. The park accommodates 123 home and ticked all of the residential sites as well as a tourist campground and the boxes and more. Without a Morrises were in charge of managing all residents and second thought we sold our guests. Aileen says the park was a busy one – they would home in Newcastle and made welcome hoards of travelling tourists when the weather was the move to Beachmere Bay. great and, in the off-season, locals would descend on the JOHN & ROSIE The Hamptons-style homes (Villa 56) lakeside park to enjoy its speedboat racing facilities. are magnificent and finished off so very well. The facilities proudly from the central west of New South Wales and "After three weeks at Palm are world-class and now we “We were only supposed to be at Copi Hollow for one year,” have left behind four children and four grandchildren in Lake Resort Beachmere have no excuse not to do all Aileen recalls. “But we ended up staying there for five Orange and Canberra, the Beachmere area has grabbed Bay, we know we made the the things we always planned years – we enjoyed it so much.” them already. right decision! Everyone is to, for example playing bowls, so friendly and helpful, the swimming everyday, going to the gym plus much, much more. We even get Wayne is a qualified mechanic and auto electrician who “We really love it here,” Aileen says. “And the people have Hamptons Country Club and to go to the movies without needing a car! We are close to everything as well loves nothing more than tinkering with cars – especially been so wonderful to us.” facilities are awesome and we as the beach. We also love the little seaside village of Beachmere. It has most his pride and joy, HX Holden Monaro. In an earlier life, the just love our home! We feel so everything you would need. I am still saying to my husband every day 'pinch pair owned and operated a service station and adjoining From one waterside location to another, they know that lucky to live here." mechanic shop at Forbes in New South Wales. They also the Beachmere area provides their family with incentive to me' - I must be dreaming to have all of this, living in a five-star resort. We are had a bread-delivery contract to distribute fresh loaves come north for a visit. And Beachmere Bay’s facilities are on holidays every day!" around Orange for a decade. While the Morisses are just the icing on the cake.

TURNING OF THE FIRST SOD

Construction of Palm Lake Care Beachmere, conveniently across the road from our Beachmere Bay resort grounds, will be officially underway following a ‘Turning of the first sod’ ceremony this month. Palm Lake Care Beachmere, when complete, will also share the Hamptons styling that’s made Beachmere Bay so successful. Come and explore Beachmere Bay with a complimentary The ceremony will be officiated by Moreton Bay Regional Council’s Division 2 representative, Cr Peter Flannery, night’s accommodation* at the Beachmere Palms Motel. Take a alongside Palm Lake Group management. personalised tour of the resort and its stunning features such as the world class Hamptons Country Club. “We are very excited to see this long-held vision come to reality,” says Palm Lake Group CEO Manuel Lang. “Built to capitalise on the unbroken water views, Palm Lake Care Beachmere residents will benefit from direct beach access and our proven reputation for quality care in luxurious surroundings.” All Palm Lake Resort Beachmere Bay residents and friends are welcome to join Palm Lake Group management and local dignitaries at the ceremony on Friday, May 10 at 10.30am. We will adjourn to morning tea at the

Hamptons Country Club after the ceremony. Palm Lake Care Beachmere is due for completion in 2020. *Subject to availability. Conditions apply. COMING SOON Palm Lake Resort Beachmere Bay's own eight-rink championship undercover lawn bowls green is only months away!

Chess on the grass

Looking for a sport that will keep your mind as active as your body? Lawn bowls might just be that game - and Palm Lake Resort Beachmere Bay's own championship green is almost here!

Sunny side up Lawn bowls is a sport embraced by the majority of our says. “Really, the most important thing about the game of Palm Lake Resort residents, which is why Palm Lake lawn bowls is the social interaction and that players are Group invests so heavily in championship undercover enjoying each other’s company and having fun. We want eight-rink lawn bowls greens across all our lifestyle you to have a bowl, have a giggle and enjoy a cup of tea Did you know is leading the way when it comes communities. In fact, Palm Lake Resort has recently also or a wine together after the game.” to solar installation, proving the ‘Sunshine State’ is more than signed a deal to sponsor the Women’s Bowls New South living up to its name? Wales (WBNSW) state carnival this month with ongoing To start in the game of lawn bowls, Kathy says players financial support of the organisation for the next 12 don’t need special clothes or expensive equipment. And months. WBNSW chairman of coaching Kathy Chatillon she says the game embraces players of all abilities – and A recent report by the Clean Energy Council revealed six and can help reduce your home’s carbon footprint, says the game of bowls is more about strategy than it is even disabilities. of the nation’s Top 10 postcodes for solar installation were helping to slow climate change. any physical strength or ability, or the perfect delivery of located in Queensland. Bundaberg’s 12,620 installations your bowl. “You can play from a chair, from a wheelchair, or even by placed them in the top spot and sharing the spotlight Not only do solar panels offer significant environmental using a bowling arm for assistance – help is available for were Hervey Bay at Number 3, Caloundra at Number 4 benefits, particularly in comparison to electricity “It is chess on grass,” Kathy explains. “Like snooker, it’s all players,” she says. “Our blind Australian mixed pairs and Toowoomba at Number 5 (locations that are each generated by fossil fuels, but they also mean serious all about angles. It’s actually a young person’s game that team actually won gold at the Commonwealth Games.” also home to a Palm Lake Resort!). The total number of savings on your power bill. And, with more solar projects older people can play as well – it’s not just for oldies! In Australian households with installed solar panels reached popping up all over Australia, solar panels are creating our Australian Commonwealth Games team last year, For those players who want to take their lawn bowls to the two million at the end of last year, and Palm Lake Resort more opportunities and employment for workers. the average age of our players was 25. It was in fact a next level, however, Kathy suggests players should engage residents are proud to be among those enjoying the 26-year-old player from Cabramatta, Aaron Wilson, who a professional coach and practise, practise, practise.“But benefits of rooftop solar. Here at Palm Lake Resort Beachmere Bay, our homes won gold in the men’s singles event.” even at the highest competitive levels, it’s still all about are constructed using the latest technology to ensure playing smart. It’s about out-thinking your opposition.” You probably already know that, as a renewable energy superior thermal and environmental efficiency, with Kathy says the beauty of the game of lawn bowls is that it source, solar power doesn’t deplete natural resources the solar orientation of homes also taken into careful is more so a social sport. It’s also one of only a handful of Palm Lake Resort Beachmere Bay residents wait in like coal, but did you know that it also saves water, too? consideration. At Palm Lake Resort Beachmere Bay, games that three generations of a family can play together anticipation for the unveiling of the new eight-rink Traditional energy uses thousands of litres of water every homes are equipped with 1.5kw solar power panels in the one club. undercover lawn bowls green. Construction on the year – the only water your solar panels need is a bit of featuring 1.65kw micro invertors system, as well as a championship green is expected to be complete in rain water that naturally washes them off if they get dirty. 1.2kwh enphase battery. It’s just our way of helping to “We find players are part of a community when they three months. Keep your eyes peeled for information Making the switch to solar also reduces the air pollution save the environment while also helping our home owners play lawn bowls. It’s a bit like the Surf Life Saving Clubs about the Grand Opening event which should be quite the that would have been created by traditional electricity, save at their hip pocket into the future. where a community is built around the local facility,” she momentous occasion. NATURE IS CALLING LAIDBACK LIFESTYLE With only a couple of roads leading in and out of the town A far cry from the CBD of nearby Brisbane, Beachmere itself, Beachmere’s pristine natural surrounds make it a offers just enough to keep its residents entertained without haven for local wildlife. Moreton Bay is home to six of the disturbing the natural tranquility of the area. The Beach world’s seven turtle species, three species of dolphin and Shak Café serves up big brekkies and coffees you’ll want to even dugongs – the only place in the world where you can get out of bed for, and the local restaurant offerings (both in see both turtles and dugongs so close to the city. On the town and nearby at Sandstone Point, Caboolture, Deception Bayside shore, migratory birds – some that have travelled from as far Bay and Scarborough) provide a nice variety. But, as any as Siberia – can be seen navigating the treetops. The best local resident will tell you, the beauty of Beachmere is in place to see Beachmere’s native flora and fauna in their its waterfront lifestyle. Whether you’re strolling along the element is the Beachmere Conservation Park, situated just foreshore, navigating the sand flats on horseback (the across the road from Palm Lake Resort. Queensland Equestrian Centre is just up the road, so horse riders are a common spectacle) or taking your four-legged BAY OF PLENTY family member to the off-leash dog beach at the southern bliss Being perched right on Moreton Bay means Beachmere end of town, the sprawling blue bay is always in eyesight. is just a hop, skip and a jump from some of South-East Queensland’s most noteworthy islands. From the boat ramp NEVER TOO FAR just five minutes down the road, launch your watercraft When you’re in Beachmere, you certainly feel like you’re a Perfectly positioned on peaceful and cruise out to Pumicestone Passage or Moreton Island, world away from the hustle and bustle of the city. But, in Moreton Bay – not far from the which is directly opposite Beachmere Bay, and swim actual fact, Beachmere is just an hour from the centre of Caboolture River inlet to the south through shipwrecks. If you prefer to head off the beaten Brisbane meaning you can easily make a day trip to visit the track, why not discover some of the camping spots that , Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland and Pumicestone Passage to the Bribie Island has to offer? Get out of town and head north Performing Arts Centre, and more. north – Beachmere offers a tranquil along the relatively untouched beaches that stretch right Likewise, if you head an hour north, you’ll find yourself at up to Caloundra’s Golden Beach, taking your pick between the iconic Noosa Main Beach. With an international airport seaside escape for those wanting surf on the Coral Sea side or stillness on the Pumicestone just 45 minutes away, you’ve also got easy access to any to slow down and put their feet up. Passage side. overseas destination! The choice is totally yours. That’s why Palm Lake Group built two resorts here... CLOSE, BUT ALSO FAR ENOUGH AWAY...

Beachmere is a quiet, quaint suburb, oozing that relaxed holiday destination vibe. And that's just the way we like it! The beauty of Beachmere is that it is also just a short drive from Brisbane where the hustle and bustle and big- city busy-ness is on tap, when needed. Here are some fun suggestions for a day-trip to the big smoke: Hit South Bank: This riverside precinct offers a full day of adventure with the Gallery of Modern Art and Queensland Museum worth looking through, and more dining options than you’ll be able to poke a stick at! Ride a City Cat: While many use City Cats as public transport, they are also a cheap way to see the delights of the CBD and central river stretches up close. Stop by QueensPlaza: This is upmarket shopping heaven – and well worth a ‘window’ shop if your credit card has other ideas! Think Tiffany & Co, Burberry, Bvlgari, Louis Vuitton, Paspaley pearls, Salvatore Ferragamo and more. Visit Westfield North Lakes: It offers a full day of retail therapy, movies and loads of options for a bite to eat. Eat your heart out at Howard Smith Wharves: Brisbane’s newest entertainment and lifestyle destination celebrates a unique position beneath the . Think awesome city and river views, combined with fine fare. Try Felons Brewing Co, Mr Percival’s Overwater Bar or GRECA Greek Taverna for starters. Cruise James St, Fortitude Valley: Having emerged organically from its inner-city industrial roots, the street and surrounding area has evolved into a high energy urban retail pocket. Find more than 130 specialty stores here as well as design showrooms, fashion boutiques, award-winning restaurants and cafes, art galleries and grooming emporiums. 6 DISPLAY HOMES TO VIEW

New Hamptons BEACH HOUSE NOW OPEN Indulge in a bayside lifestyle for over 50’s at Palm Lake Resort Beachmere Bay with the all new luxurious residents’ beach house. With waterfront views it is the perfect complement to the Hamptons Country Club, which boasts world class features such as a ten pin bowling alley, state of the art Milon gym, movie theatre and more! Plus all new homes come with $30,000* of luxury inclusions as standard. Acquaint yourself with a Hamptons inspired Palm Lake Resort lifestyle today.

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