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 ...

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 the opening salvo on a magical stretch of sand along the Gold Coast of Australia known as the Superbank. Part nature, part man-made machine, Snapper Rocks is the prototypical, ...

Snapper can technically receive swells between roughly 355 and 170 degrees, or anything from a north to south direction. However, the best swells have an east component and are typically between 60 ...

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 ...

The tapered, emerald green walls and cavernous spaces of Snapper Rocks and Kirra. The history, heritage and culture of Rainbow Bay, Greenmount and Coolangatta at large. Iconic performances from the ...

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 ...

WHY would anyone be surfing at the Gold Coast’s Snapper Rocks before the sun was even up? Greenmount Beach has become one of Australia’s most popular surf locations but it’s also seen it’s fair share ...

AUSTRALIAN youngster Mitch Crews has pulled off a major upset at the Quiksilver Pro, downing world No.5 Julian Wilson. Just three heats into his career as a World Tour surfer, Mitch Crews downed world ...

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 ...

It’s even crowded following an unprecedented string of shark attacks on the east coast of Australia. Of course, Australia is ...

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 ...