New from NorCal

[cruzpch]

Aloha --

I live in Santa Cruz, retired, and starting to do some serious traveling. I joined up here to find out more about rural, Northeastern Australia. Surfed canvas mats as a grom, then my dad built me my first foam and glass board. It was 1962, never looked back. Surfed thru the short board evolution and eventually, decades later, am back on longboards. Looking for some warm water and uncrowded faces. Thanks.

[jaffa1949]

Rural NE Australia , welcomes you, however there is a lot of it! Ranging from serious desert, a long coastline locked away from waves behind the Great Barrier Reef.
If you want surf NE Surf Australia extends roughly from The northern tip of Fraser Island in Queensland to about Coffee Harbour in New South Wales, includes Noosa , The Gold Coast Kirra Burleigh and Byron Bay.
The relaxed Morning of the Earth life style has been overtaken by cashed up city folk living the tree change dream.
Where once there was a wooden shack at $20 a month, long gone.........

Inland NE Australia , cattle country and drier climate sliding down off the great dividing range into dry arboreal lands then desert.

The surf zones in the north ridiculously crowded, just google Superbank or Byron Bay.
Little out of the way beaches can have their day, but high capable locals and a hint of the Californian Red Triangle is here , shark attacks! Many in recent years!
The whole NE surf coast is a holiday and winter destination for all the southern states.
Aged hippy communes still exist in the hinterland about an hours drive from the coast, ask further and our resident Aussies can help