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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
"Best day ever." Three words from Stephanie Gilmore that say everything about what went down at Snapper Rocks on Finals Day at the Bonsoy Gold Coast Pro. That's a big statement coming from the ...
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 ...
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 ...