Queensland Australia

Surfers Paradise Beach, Queensland, Australia

The name says it all: this is one of the ritziest, glitziest beaches in Australia. Surfers is a clever creation, fabricated by corporations. It started out like every other beach town on Australia‘s East Coast, but in the past 50 years, its transformed into an entirely different beast. Rampant commercialization and condo and hotel building [...]

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Noosa Heads, Queensland, Australia

Noosa is one of our top beach towns in Australia. It’s a perfect blend of tourist and local, hip yet laid back. The beach also offers great surfing and body boarding. What really makes this beach shine, however, is the town itself, a charming oasis on the sometimes overcrowded East Coast of Australia. Too cool, [...]

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Rainbow Beach Australia

Rainbow beach is found in the same northeastern coastal part of Queensland, Australia as the giant E horizon. In fact, the red and yellow colors are remnants of the Spodic horizon that is diagnostic for Spodosols. Rainbow Beach is a small town, right on a long stretch of beautiful sand beach. There’s a sad story [...]

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