Surfing activities in Australia
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Cheyne Horan School of Surf
World champion surfer Cheyne Horan offers excellent tuition.
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Go Ride a Wave
Also rents out surfboards, kayaks, beach chairs and umbrellas.
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Learn to Surf Offshore Surf School
If you want to learn to catch a wave, the Learn to Surf Offshore Surf School offers lessons at the main town surf beach.
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Byron Bay Surf School
Surf camps too.
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Byron Surf Kool Katz
Half-day lessons $49.
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Coastlife Adventures
This place does morning surf ($55) and stand-up paddle ($30) lessons as well as marine kayak tours ($55).
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Port Macquarie Surf School
Offers a wide range of lessons and prices.
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Surfing Byron Bay
Has courses for kids.
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Surfing Perth Western Australia
Two-hour lessons (adult/child $55/50) include boards and wetsuits.
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Surfschool
Two-hour lessons at Scarborough Beach, including boards and wetsuits.
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Lee Winkler's Surf School
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East Coast Surf School
This school is particularly female-friendly as it is run by noted east coast surfer Helene Enevoldson.
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Blackdog Surfing
Intimate group lessons and women's courses.
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Newcastle Surf School
Choose between Nobbys or the more private Cave's Beach.
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Surfest Surf School
Held at Nobbys Beach, buy four lessons and get one free.
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Samudra
Surf-and-yoga retreats.
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Pacific Dreams
Rents secondhand fibreglass boards and far less painful soft boards.
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Mojosurf Adventures
Epic surf trips.
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Port Fairy Surf Shop
You can hire surf gear and bicycles and arrange surfing lesions at Port Fairy Surf Shop.
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Noosa Longboards
If you want to hire equipment, Noosa Longboards has boards for $35/50 per half/full day. You can also grab a boogie board here ($15/20).
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Manly Surf School
Offers two-hour surf lessons year-round at Manly, Collaroy, Dee Why or Palm Beach. Also runs surf safaris up to the Northern Beaches, including two lessons, lunch, gear and city pick-ups ($100).
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Dripping Wet
This beachside surf shop hires out surfboards (per hour/day/week, $15/50/150), bodyboards (per hour/day/week, $5/20/60) and wetsuits (same as bodyboards).
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Easyrider Surf School
Warrnambool has excellent beaches such as sheltered Lady Bay, the main swimming beach, which has fortifications at the breakwater at its western end. Logan’s Beach has the best surf, and there are breaks at Levy’s Beach and Second Bay. Hang five with Easyrider Surf School.
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Wavesense
With a string of fine breaks around an unspoilt national park, Noosa is a fine place to catch a wave. The best year-round break is probably Sunshine Corner, at the northern end of Sunshine Beach, though it has a brutal beach dump. The point breaks (First Point to Granite Bay) around the headland only perform during the summer, but when they do, expect wild conditions and good walls at Boiling Point and Tea Tree, on the northern coast of the headland.
Noosa Spit, on the far end of Hastings St, has gentle breaks that are heavenly for the novice - unlike at Sunshine Beach, riders are protected from open water so the rips tend to be less intense. It seems someone is always…
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Noosa Surf Lessons
With a string of fine breaks around an unspoilt national park, Noosa is a fine place to catch a wave. The best year-round break is probably Sunshine Corner, at the northern end of Sunshine Beach, though it has a brutal beach dump. The point breaks (First Point to Granite Bay) around the headland only perform during the summer, but when they do, expect wild conditions and good walls at Boiling Point and Tea Tree, on the northern coast of the headland.
Noosa Spit, on the far end of Hastings St, has gentle breaks that are heavenly for the novice - unlike at Sunshine Beach, riders are protected from open water so the rips tend to be less intense. It seems someone is always…
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