Burleigh Heads

After staying with Vicky and Allan we headed back down the Gold Coast to Burleigh Heads, another great surf spot that was also supposed to be the quiet part of the coast.  It didn’t disappoint.  Burleigh was like a tiny, sunny Cornish village with  a lovely headland and nice beach.  I did lots of looking [...]

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Coolangatta and Tweeds Head

Like Bournemouth runs into Poole, Coolangatta (or Cooly as it’s known) seamlessly links into Tweed Heads.  The odd thing about this is that Cooly is in Queensland and Tweed Heads in is New South Wales.  Cooly is a little beach town with some world class surf breaks which are home to Mick Fanning and Joel [...]

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Back in Yamba (Take Four)

So guess where we went after camping in Minnie Water?!  Yamba of course!  In our rush to leave for Minnie Water, we left our trusty Lonely Planet book behind and so had to call into Yamba to pick it up.  Unfortunately Dori (the car) wanted to stay longer and decided to spring a radiator leak [...]

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Surf Lesson and Andy Irons

As my surfing days on the east coast of Oz are limited (apparently something called the Great Barrier Reef gets in the way as you go north) I decided to take a surfing lesson to improve a little quicker.  The guy who took me out is a relative of the Henwoods and is an ex-pro [...]

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Angourie Point & Back Beach

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). [...]

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