Atlantis Marine Park - What Remains?
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- Opening in Two Rocks on Boxing Day 1981, the Atlantis Marine Park was a unique theme park for Perth including all sorts of performing sea life, primarily dolphins. This story goes deeper, however, involving Alan Bond's Yanchep Sun City and the prime times of the 80s, followed by the downturn of the 90s. Even though it was mostly demolished in the early 90s, there are still remains 30 years later. Let's hope in the Kia and find out what remains!
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A tiny little nugget of information for you. One of the statues can be found out the front of the Miss Maud head office at 136 Fitzgerald St. I am betting there are loads of them spread around WA and it would be cool to know where they all are.
You’re right! I’ve driven past this statute several times and never clued on!
Oh wow! I know it
Love a bit of Perth history.
Have many memories and photos of visits to Atlantis during childhood including the time I was selected to receive a kiss from a sea lion.
The WA Museum Boola Bardip in the city also has a small small display on Atlantis and the other abandoned theme parks of Perth in the Reflections Gallery including a short video that shows the history of Atlantis.
I wasn't aware of that, I'll check it out!
Perth born and bred since 72 - really enjoy your videos Brendan. Thank you! 😊
I still have the Atlantis coffee mug I got when my sister and I visited as kids with my auntie and uncle. Great memories!
We need a dizzy lamb park video i have not seen it ever mentioned anywhere on youtube its got a great history and some great storys/rumours
It's a paintball place now. But a lot of the old parts of it remain such as rides and Pond.
Thanks for showing this, I had wondered what happened after it closed. Took my niece to see the dolphin show there back in 1984.
Can you do a video on dizzy lamb Park and the safari park in carabooda
I think my Mum still has an ash tray she bought from the gift shop….and still smoking at 82 🤦♂️
Quitters never win!
Smoking isn’t so bad then is it 👍🏻
I mean someone has to be the statistical anomaly - and if it hasn't killed you by 82, I guess its sorta a win....
Thank you for bringing back my childhood memories, when my family was together and alive.
Wow Mate. You really do dig up some gems.
I remember going there as a kid not long after it opened and loved it.
But as an adult I definately agree, that the best place for Animals is in their own habitat.
Still its kind of sad to see it all but gone. Seems like every year another part of of my childhood in and around Perth disappears. ☹
Another great video mate! I first visited the ruins of Atlantis when my aunty moved there, mid to late 90s, was such a thrill to sneak through the rusty gates and explore with my grandfather and hear about the park. Went last year and was surprised at how much had been cleared. Cheers, keep them coming!
i'm going to be leaving perth hopefully permanently in a few weeks and these vids of yours are making me more appreciative of the chunk of life i've spent here. you've proven to me that every place has its interesting quirks and history
Good luck on your next chapter.
Where are you moving?
I remember putting Bondy into a cell, one night working as a cop in the East Perth lockup.
Pity he woke up
What did he do? (or is it the obvious?)
I cannot thank you enough for making content like this. I often wonder why there was never any W.A. history on TV or UA-cam. But you have scratched that itch! Keep em' coming
Thanks for another great nostalgia trip. I grew up in Perth from the early 70’s until moving away in 2011, so it’s great to get info on how things have changed. I forget how much of Perth is build on sand dunes until I see videos like this.
Great video mate. This is how the time felt. Up to. The 1987 stock crash everything was possible. The day after the 1987 stock crash nothing was possible.
Well done Brendan on an excellent video. We enjoyed meeting you up at two rocks while we were also exploring the Atlantis remains. Thank you for filling in a lot of the blanks with your research.
It's impossible to look at the remains of the park today and imagine what was once there.
i grew up in two rocks and never knew much about it at all, i greatly appreciate this insight!
So good. Would be cool to see a video on the dizzy lamb park that got turned into the paintball place along wanneroo road, a lot of cool sculptures and buildings still on site. Same with the place in Mandurah with the castles that’s covered in graffiti. Last time I went past a lot of the old park had been developed and only two of the miniture castles left.
Loving all the videos
I remember going there as a kid in the early 80's. Watching the dolphins and the seals perform, it was a great memory.. thanks for the video and the history of the Atlantis theme park, Brandon... 😊😊😊
Thanks for another great video, love your work,
I've seen some of the roads built or planned around the new Yanchep train station are named "Tokyu", now that name makes sense!
I don't remember ever going to Atlantis as a kid, but I definitely remember going to Dizzy Lamb Park haha.
Fantastic retrospective! I did a documentary on Atlantis back in 2019 for a uni project and it was really interesting seeing the remaining landmarks and merchandise. We ended up interviewing the Supervising Mechanic of the park who had alot of merch and undeveloped negatives from the day!
Nice! Can the doco be viewed anywhere?
Hi Brendan. Really enjoy your videos. Can I suggest a vid about Canning Bridge? I don't know much about it (I'm probably not alone in that :)), even though I grew up near it and used to go fishing underneath it (it had/has a kind of jetty thing underneath it, projecting from the Como side of the river). Two things are clear: It's pretty old, and made of wood. So it has to have a cool history, right :)
Another potentially interesting historical site is the nearby Heathcote Hospital (now a kind of public park/space), but all the old buildings are still there.
This is a great. One Brendon I too visited king Neptune in 2021 when we went on a driving trip up north to Exmouth
I hadn’t been there since 1983 when we did the whole park experience
The 80s were quite a time never to be seen again
I would get in the Delorian and go back tomorrow if I had half a chance
We had so many crazy amazing things back the
And did you see how much it was to have a house built $22500
I just want to say, after being introduced to your channel by my boyfriend, I am enthralled!
It's really exciting to learn about local history and to know that so many of these places are accessible to me. There's also a nostalgic feel to it, being a local.
I have really enjoyed watching your videos and also noticed the format shift which was a good choice.
You're very knowledgeable and engaging to listen to. Thankyou for creating amazing little videos about this cool city 🙏
Also my boyfriend is obsessed with the intro music 😂
I remember going to Atlantis in the 80’s, I also recall a ‘spaceship’, maybe this was also a land office thing, I believe it got relocated.
There was also the caves at Yanchep.
Hopefully you have Bullens Lion Park in Carabooda on your list of upcoming projects.
I'm glad you decided to make this one, after I commented previously suggesting it I had gone and visited again myself, a nice motorbike ride up. It was great to see king Neptune cleaned up and open to the public.
I was a little disappointing that a number of the shops at the complex had shut and it was looking a bit dilapidated, but I hope the development going through can bring life back.
Now, have you heard of the Mandurah castle fun park?
The whistle stop would also be a great one, but I think that is private property and may be hard to get access...
All aboard the Whistle Stop!!
Castle Fun Park is on my radar, I remember visiting as a kid. Never heard of the Whistle Stop, though. Where's that?
I did an assignment on Atlantis when I was in high school. Me and my dad went in there and took a bunch of photos. It was great. I've been meaning to go back again.
I was fortunate enough in 1982 to be chosen to be part of the dolphin show and was taken across the pool in a little raft by the dolphins.. got to feed them and they sung for me, and received a postcard signed by the dolphins thanking me for feeding them …and I also got to see Popeye the seal perform …fond memories
Thank you Brendan - I live a few minutes from here and wish it was ALL preserved, or rebuilt for a fun park for kids, or a new Adventure World type facility for the North after the collapse of Dizzy Lamb Park (maybe another topic for a video!).
Throwing my hat in the ring, it would be great to something on “El Cabello”, “Action Park” (I think it was called?), and “ It’s a small world “ (I think the lady who started it is still alive and has a doll shop somewhere).
G'day again Brendan, We went there a couple of Times, Armadale is a Bugger of a Long Way from there, but we enjoyed ourselves ,also did the Birdman Rally once, thanks for the memories Mate being a Septuagenarian you need all the help you can get!!!
Hell yeah mate! Can you do one on the Alkimos?? 💜💜
Been meaning to visit Neptune for years now, probably do it sooner rather than later having seen this. Even as a younger Perthite (mid 20s), there's still so much of the city that's been changed, replaced and erased with little ceremony in the time I've been around. Great vid!
Absolutely fantastic, been loving these deep dives. Thank you
With the Joondalup line having extended to and become the Yanchep line making a lot easier for anyone to get to for a day from anywhere in Perth it wouldn’t be a bad idea to try restoring the old theme park but I’d be shocked to see that happen
Fun fact, Alan Bond also built a little airstrip in Yanchep. Until recently you could still see it on Maps even though it was long gone. It would have been cool to still have an airstrip up this way
When I first heard about the old Marine Park / King Neptune sculpture I couldn’t believe Perth had something cool like this. Now I feel the same way about learning Perth has a video essay UA-camr, Brendan’s Odyssey!?! 🙌🏻🤩
We went to Atlantis several times from opening through to 1990. I still have a cloth badge in my collection from there.
A friend of mine, Susan Rhind, studied the social interactions of nine dolphins before they were released from Atlantis. This study is still available on-line. I think someone did some follow up work on them after their release, but I can't find it ATM. From memory some dolphins made it up to Shark Bay.
I remember those three remaining dolphins mysteriously dying.
I remember seeing King Neptune a few years back and wondering what the story was there. Thanks for the video mate!
Great video I'll have to get up there and explore !
I lived up there 1998-2003, I can’t believe how much it’s changed but the fact it’s now set up for housing infront of Neptune and where the old shacks were!! It kind of makes me sad it’s not the fishing town it once was 😢
I was only very young when I went to Atlantis with my big cousin from Kalgoorlie, it was incredible for us as little kids!
I remember Yanchep Sun CIty being a long way from home (Balga) and cold and mostly deserted (so we likely went in winter).
We went to Atlantis in it's hey-day and it was fun - but not surprising that it fell into decline.
There was speculation that Bond had named the development "Sun City" after Sun City in South Africa - possibly to attract South African investors or potential home oweners.
I remember staying at Club Capricorn in the mid 00s and again in 2010. Accommodation was basic as it comes but i do remember there was a conference centre and swimming pool there.
I remember going there as a kid. A lucky girl got her portrait painted by a dolphin... or seal. I can't remember but it was fun
Alan Bond stamping on Paul Barry's card LOL, Barry wrote a pretty good book about Bond that is worth a read. We used to have picnics across the road from Atlantis in a nice little park. Never went to Atlantis as I was against holding dolphins in captivity.
That park is still great. Some of the best grass I've ever seen in a public place.
Great video! I’ve been to the site several times over the years, and love exploring it. I wonder what happened to the Charlie Chaplain statue (it was in your video, he was headless!) as I remember seeing it years ago but it appears to have dissapeared. It’s amazing walking through and matching up what would’ve been. I’ve been in touch with the WA Museum as I’ve collected several pieces from the park that I’d like to donate to the museum - Atlantis T shirt, seal plush, dolphin plush, Atlantis bell, post card, glass mug, and collectable spoons.
Very cool. Someone else left a comment here saying there was a portion of the museum dedicated to Atlantis and other closed theme parks.
my son played soccer at Yanchep yesterday, sure has changed since the last time I was up there in the 80s!
Went there in early 80's school days
Wow. I was JUST reading about this!
I remember visiting Atlantis with a couple of my cousins.
Great video. Keep up the good work.
It's great to see videos of perths history by someone who knows what they are doing compared to the absolute rubbish Street kid industries releases
The three dolphins ‘Mila, Rajah and Echo’ eventually found a new and their final home at Underwater World.
The dolphins were poisoned between Xmas and New Year 1999.
I don’t recall if anyone was ever held responsible, but I do remember the community was extremely upset.
Well done, good narration.
There used to be some sort of grass skiing park up at Yanchep too, watching this triggered a memory of it. Can't remember any details though.
Your correct I remember the grass skiing
Yep yup catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/yanchep_grass_ski_park_1983
I reckon the hill hasn't been developed yet either
Thank you so much for your videos, oh the memories, does anyone remember the Indian inviting you in to a domed tent to view cinema 360?
My family went to Atlantis when I was about 6 years old (so mid 1980s). I remember the aquariums and being scared to tears by King Neptune, don't really remember the dolphin shows. I always wanted to go back and would constantly hassle my mum about it. Then it closed and I never got my chance. I did go up there with some friends around 2009 and got some cool photos, the "Prickle" (that star shaped building) was still there, but obviously used as a drug den (so was Neptune actually).
crazy video. as a two rocks resident it's pretty bizarre hearing all the history that I watched unfold right in front of me. Fuck woolies.
Would love to see a video on the castle fun park in Mandurah
I wish I could remember visiting the park just before it closed
Great to see they've kept those relocated statues, but it looks completely different with new roads since I last visited
Loves the vids mate keep them comin
Went a couple of times as a kid in the 80s. First time I would've been probably 6 and it was amazing, last would've been 10 or so, right before it closed, and it was feeling tired even to my childish eyes.
Sun City really reminds me of an outlet mall I went to in Houston, on a tiny scale.
Might have to pop out for a visit one day.
I wonder if there's anything left of Dizzy Lamb Park worth exploring?
It's now a paintball park!
I really gotta go out to Two Rocks one day and pay my respects to King Neptune
I remember going there as my friends dad was in a chess tournament. We went to see the dolphin show and I was picked to be towed by the dolphins as I was sitting in a raft thingy. That would have been in the very early 80s I'd say.
Hi Brendan. Thanks so much for making this. I had hoped you might get to Alantis at some point. There is some good 1989 footage here from the 8:10 mark: ua-cam.com/video/uDhY48p4BFk/v-deo.htmlsi=D8W7ueGelEqnckjQ&t=490
There was a tonne of weird and whacky theme parks north of Perth in the 1980's. The Wanneroo Lion Park (opened in the '70s) was the oddest of all. You drove your car into a fenced off 'park' area filled with lions and threw a slab of meat out the car window that you purchased from the front entrance. My memory of the meat was that it is was a giant slab of rump steak. You could then watch the big cats eat it. I first went there around 1980-81, not long after my family migrated to Western Australia from NZ. There were various rumours and sightings of an escaped lion where I lived at the time in Bullsbrook and there was also a story about someone who killed themselves there by getting out of their car. The lions attacked and ate them.
I went there in 2018 I think, good to hear they won't knock down Neptune at least. Watched a few of your videos, they are pretty good. If you ever want to do one on Bartons Mill I have a lot of pictures of that place over the years, cheers
Thanks, mate. I would be interested in seeing the photos. Barton Mills is on my list, but I haven't found many photos online. If you like, you can email them to brendansodyssey@gmail.com
Cheers 👍
Did you also run across the lion park when researching this? Remember driving past it on the way to Atlantis as a kid.
Yes, I was hoping to go on-site and film something, but the location has been razed for Benara Nursery, of all places.
Keep it up brendo, I enjoy these! Give me a message if you ever need someone to come for a hike to one of these places!
They had a good sled ride at El Cab. Wouldn't get safety approval these days
How about a video on El Caballo Blanco - the dancing horses. I think the resort/hotel exists still but not the horse performances. regarding atlantis my only memory is some very weird human performance - Darth Vader and Superman on Waterskis.....?!!
I’m in my 30’s and have vague memories of going there when I was a kid
I threw up in Atlantis as a kid. That’s all I remember if it. Probably around 1990. 😆
also went a couple of times last century to the marina for the annual Birdman Rally.
Lucky you got in with this one before they started building the McDonald's next to King Neptune's ear hey Brendan..! 😮
Yeah! What bullshit is that? Plenty of free space for a Macca's in Two Rocks. They should save that place for tourism. I saw two groups of tourists on my visit alone. They make the journey from the city to see Neptune
I refused to go to that sh^thole. It was just cruel. Great video again though.
I don't remember ever going there but I do remember a safari park? You would have to stay in the car and drive through.
And Fifty cents a cuddle of the lion cub
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanneroo_Lion_Park
Aww that's so sad 😞 those poor lions .
There's also Cohuna wildlife park (byford). Cuddle a Koala for $30 - that's inflation for you.
Did you also see the heads behind the shops?
Thanks
Thank you! :)
If you want to see some more interesting architecture history you should see what the Two Rocks library was first built like, it was based of the work of an Italian architect and was a complete dome
Underwater World* .. Wasnt AQWA until the 00's
Correct
Hey Brendan! I was trying to investigate what you meant by clicking “join”, as I was trying to find a way to send some dollars your way to support your work! Do you have a Patreon of some kind? How can we support you?
Thanks, mate. I don't have a Patreon, but the Join button (close to where the like and subscribe buttons are) enable a UA-cam membership, which is the same sort of thing.
crazy to think how many plans they had for two rocks with how empty it really is
Heh! El Caballo Blanco was where it was!
I’m pretty sure I remember the dolphin statue/fountain outside the Morley Galleria. It was a Morley Senior High School tradition (I never did it) to pour washing powder or dish detergent into the fountain.
Yes mate, they kept Painting the statue Red to show 'blood'
Not there Now
I visited with my brother, probably 1989 or 1990 I reckon. Would only have been 7 or 8 yo..!
Can You Do What Remains of Princess Margaret Hospital for Children in Subiaco, WA
I've considered it and checked it out in person while filming for another video, but right now it's an active construction site. Still, they're retaining enough that I could once development is finished
Godfrey House, Boiler House, Chimney Stack and a Tunnel remained on Site
I look at king Neptune everyday from my backyard.
Do a video about El Cabelo Blanco please
It was 1983 when bond won the cup not 1987 :) I remember it well.
Correct!
Incorrect BOTH of Youse !???????????
1986 was when the Americas Cup was won by Aussie, for the First time EVER outside America
In 1983 Aussie won the right ONLY to hold the Race/Challenge, in Fremantle
@@bluddyrowdy8757 The Cup was taken away from the New York Yacht Club and paraded through Perth, held up by Bond in a motorcade in 1983. We definitely did win it then.
Great video about this Western Australian 'tacky-but-fun' project typical of the way we did things back then. These days everything is regulated to death and sterile.
I remember being a kid when the dolphins died. Suspected poisoning apparently
Is Rolf Harris still there
Didn't see him
Where's next... Dizzy Lamb Park?? ha
Id love to see Action park Mirrabooka, but I think its all gone.
Wow! Never heard of that one
@@brendansodysseyI remember black wrist bands upon entry, big slides and a decent roller-coaster, miss the 80s
You must do a lot of research, as Perth is an insignificant city compared to world standards. Nobody bothers with Perth History. Do you just get all your info from the State Library? I have been in the archive sections. The library has a lot of archives that people do not know about.
I get quite a lot of information from the library, particularly for the more rural subjects. Otherwise, you'd be surprised by the quality of resources around the internet
Such a great video but the background music is annoying 😅
i fish for herring here! if i catch u in my herrin spot im gonan bust out the matchete, do not come, jk lol
Yes, I wonder where the safari park was??? I know someone did get eaten.
Bullens Lion Park was up past Wanneroo it was established in 1971 as a refuge for displaced circus lions.
in 1982, a man stepped out of his car and walked into the lion compound wearing religious medallions and holding a cross - he was mauled to death by a pack of lions awaiting their mid-morning feed.
Carabooda. It took me a while to figure out where exactly. It turns out it's now where Benara Nursery is!
Behind dizy lamb park it’s gone now