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 [...]

Grand Night At The Museum   Surfing legends Darren Handley and Rusty Miller were featured speakers at a special Grand Night at the Museum hosted by Gold Coast Surf World on 7 November.  Miller earned a reputation riding the big waves at Sunset Beach, Waimea and Pipeline in the 1960s and was a successful competitive [...]

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 [...]