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 ...
You know what’s nice? When you’ve been surfing the same wave day in and day out. Figuring out what direction, tide, wind, and all the other stars that need to align to make it work its best. Knowing ...
In the early 1970s, the sand accumulated along the Gold Coast’s Superbank was grooming some of surfing’s foremost innovators and world champions. They weren’t the first surfers at the joint, but Wayne ...
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, ...
Snapper Rocks is one of the most hectic surf lineups in the world. It’s absurdly crowded, filled with so many bodies that collisions are quite common, and scoring a wave to oneself when it’s pumping ...
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 ...
A multimillion-dollar revamp of the city’s most iconic beach location will get the green light after councillors backed a masterplan for the Rainbow Bay to Snapper Rocks foreshore.
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 ...
A councillor says it is too late to stop the controversial Rainbow Bay redevelopment despite nearly 10,000 signatures calling ...