I had to get up early this morning and get down to Coolangatta Beach. One of my surfboard hire clients was checking out early and needed 1 minimal and 1 short board picked up before they left. So up I got, arriving in Cooly before 7am.
On the Australian Gold Coast, Coolangatta is roughly a 30 minute drive headed south out of Surfer’s Paradise, both places being world-renowned thanks to the impressive surf conditions they present. Surfer’s Paradise, located at the northern tip really does have some of the most spectacular of the Goldy’s beach breaks thanks to the shifting sand-based ocean floor, which gives a lot of swell.
Unlike Surfer’s Paradise, Coolongatta farther south, is renowned for its point breaks at sites such as Greenmount, Kirra and Snapper Rocks. Though they lack the significant swell of the northern beaches, these point breaks surely offer the best waves in the region. The waves simply do not stop bending around the points on the good days. When fatigued and tired, a surfer can simply kick off a wave instead of it abruptly ending.