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 ...

Snapper Rocks, for lack of a better term, is a sh*tshow. The Gold Coast, Australia surf spot is damn-near perfect when it’s on. And with that perfection comes crowds. It’s pure insanity with drop-ins, ...

Snapper Rocks is one of the most hectic surf lineups in the world. It’s absurdly crowded, filled with so many bodies that collisions are quite common, and scoring a wave to oneself when it’s pumping ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As it turns out, the animals were inside the shark nets and drumlines during the chaos – “proving yet again”, Greens spokesperson for healthy oceans Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said, that “nets aren’t ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...