North Stradbroke Island Surf Report & Forecast

The source (of Straddie and its neighbor islands, Moreton and Fraser) is similar: ex-Ice Age meltdown and sea-level changes, helping to form sand barriers along a coastal fringe. Straddie is exposed to swell, particularly from the S-E -- an angle in which much of the Queensland coast tends to suffer. The epic wave on Stradbroke is Cylinders, a long, right point-style wave breaking along the northeast corner of the island and peeling for several hundred yards. Sand-bottomed and somewhat tidal, Cy... Read more