Two special events honouring legendary women surfers will be held at Surf World Gold Coast this month.   The Divas of Surfing exhibition will be officially opened on Thursday, 18 March from 10.30am and a special Divas of Surfing evening will be held on Wednesday, 24 March from 6.00pm.   Both events focus on four [...]

The Divas of Surfing Surf World Gold Coast is presenting a special "Divas of Surfing" evening featuring four women who occupy significant places in world surfing history: 1.  Kathy Kohner Zuckerman – A young female surfer known as Gidget, the subject of a book, TV series and movies, heralded the rise of surfing into popular [...]

Switch-Foot II Book Launch   The Gold Coast launch of Switch-Foot II, an iconic surf book by Andrew Crockett, was held at Surf World Gold Coast in December 2009.   Covering what Crockett terms “the other side of surfing”, the book focuses predominantly on the 1960s and 1970s and includes 90 contributors and over 1000 [...]

Coast’s Newest Icon – Surfing Museum Opens 27 June Queensland’s first surfing museum, Surf World Gold Coast, opens its doors at Currumbin on Saturday, 27 June. The museum celebrates the history and contribution of surfing and beach culture. A topic of discussion for many years, the museum has come to fruition in the last 12 [...]