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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MICK Fanning has not slowed down on his journey back to competitive surfing as continues to paddle in the water after his shark attack in South Africa. After returning to the water for the first time ...

THE feud between Kelly Slater and local surfers has reached new levels, with the champ’s car vandalised after he spoke out about Snapper Rocks. And the pro isn’t taking it lying down. Fearless in the ...

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 ...