Surfing in Australia
One of the
world’s renowned surfing’s premier destination is Australia due to its
beautiful coastlines with first class wave all over. As Australia is a country
whose boarders are not meeting with any other country, so it comes in as a
Continent. And due to surfing this country is become the most popular destinations
for sports lovers especially related to sea sports. In 1915 surfing introduced by Hawaiian Duke
Kahanamoku and this culture quickly gained popularity and turned into
mainstream sport from recreational activities.
There is a
very famous and popular place is called Gold Coast which boasts of some of the
most exhilarating surfing and it is the place of manmade super sand bank coast
which creates one of the longest waves ride on the earth also introduced
barreling waves which is a challenge for the photographers to shoot, but makes
extremely nice photographic actions, angles and compositions.
To surf in
Australia there are some periods which are divided into seasonal slabs such as
for the East coast is best from March to November, the West coast is conducive
from April to October and the South coast from December to February. But with a
caution the Australian surfing is dangerous from bitten to the shark and 20%
more dangerous than the UK or Europe. There are approximately 2.5 million are
recreational surfers and about 420,000 annual surfing participants, 107 surf
schools and 2,292 accredited surfing coaches. Over one out of ten Aussies take
part in surfing activities as recreational. Torquay is home to the famous Bells
Beach and major surfing brands is considered to be the Surfing Capital of
Australia.
A couple of
hrs drive on M1 from Sydney to New Castle is a beautiful, calm quiet and
charming city is famous for safe surfing at Nobbys and Merewether Beach with
fantastic Pubs and friendly locale people are the best beaches for the
learners.
Surfing is
addictive, once you put your legs into the sea it will be quite difficult to detach
yourself form the alluring watesr and you can’t stop as you will be bitten by
surf bugs. I saw some very young under 10, boys and girls, seniors like
octogenarians men and women surfing deep into the sea for hours. There are many
famous beaches all over the world, such as
1.
Bondi
Beach, Sydney,
2.
Praia
do rosa, Florianopolis,
3.
Jeffreys
Bay, South Africa
4.
Hossegor,
Southwestern France,
5.
Puerto
Escondido, Maxico.
Courtesy sources across the web.
Like any other sporting activities
which are arranged all over the world, surfing is also has the same reputation
and popularity in sports arena all over the world.
Text and Photo by- Ashok
Karan,
Ashokkaran.blogspot.com,
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