A few kilometres along the coast from Yamba is a place called Angourie point. It is world famous for its surf break as it reportidly has a gnarley barrel over rocks and has been the training ground for many famous surfers.
One day we managed to blag a lift up there with one of the hostel owners (Justin). He gave us a tour of the area and showed us some of the expensive houses (the guy who created Billabong has a house here), the pools and then the point. The point consists of two beaches, the point itself which is where the big barrels come in and has an impressive reef break, then round the point is Back beach.
Angourie Point
We didn’t have surf board with us so we went to Back beach. This beach has been our favourite beach in Oz so far. It is a long sandy beach which curves around meeting a point at either end. At the back of the beach is a sandstone cliff which provided perfect shade during the mid day sun. The water is very clear and the surf is still very good but a lot safer.
We stayed on the beach for a few hours, had lunch and went for a swim / body surf. The water was lovely and you could see the fish swimming past you as you surfed in. It was awesome and so beautiful. We both want to go back and Jo wants to check out Angourie on a big day.
Angourie Back Beach
You didn’t tell them about the trouble you caused with our lift back to the hostel!
Woahhhh!scary sharks seen at angourie this
December…. We were surfing the point and
back beach on 2 occassions this week and saw
large white pointers……eating machines……even
vetran local’s are surfing elsewhere….