Earlier this year, Queensland, Australia’s Superbank lived up to its name. A series of swells lit up the famed pointbreak from Snapper Rocks to Greenmount, with a groomed sandbar manufacturing perfect ...

Dolphins are the OG surfers, the real locals, the natural-born waveriders. The ocean is their home; surfers are just visitors. So, it makes sense that porpoises would innately surf better than humans ...

Snapper Rocks, the crown jewel of Australia’s Rainbow Bay on the Gold Coast, is one of the most crowded surf spots in the entire world. On any given day – swell, completely flat, rain, shine, sleet, ...

Australian Gold Coast phenomenon Snapper Rocks is also a beautiful disaster. When the notorious surf spot turns on, it offers one of the longest and most hallow barrels in the world. But that means ...

A GOLD Coast surfer has come off second best in rough swell at Snapper Rocks this afternoon. Declan Sheeran has suffered a suspected broken rib after dropping 15ft down a wave. Coolangatta local ...

But with increasing overcrowding at popular Gold and Sunshine Coast breaks, surfing’s good vibes are vanishing faster than a one-day swell. A rising tide of aggro in the water has led to incidents ...

Photography by Rambo Estrada and Andrew Shield. There are a few tell-tale signs at Snapper Rocks that really let you know the surf is pumping: You can’t get a park. When you check the cams, it looks ...

SNAPPER Rocks will keep the Quiksilver and Roxy pros beyond next year with the World Surfing League confirming the event will be held again on the Gold Coast in 2018. The Gold Coast Bulletin can also ...

As it turns out, the animals were inside the shark nets and drumlines during the chaos – “proving yet again”, Greens spokesperson for healthy oceans Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said, that “nets aren’t ...

Long-time Goldie surfer/photographer Andrew Shield is talking about the surfing population at Snapper Rocks on weekends like this one just past. Shieldsy spent a lot of time sitting on the back of his ...

The ocean giveth, and the ocean taketh away. Following the biblical swell that slammed Australia’s east coast back in March – and sent Kirra firing on all cylinders for days on end – ex-Tropical ...