The Gold Coast consists of almost kms of coastline with
some of the most popular surf beaches in Australia and the world including,
South Stradbroke Island, The Spit, Main Beach, Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach,
Mermaid Beach, Nobby Beach, Miami, Burleigh Beach, Burleigh Heads, Tallebudgera
Beach, Palm Beach, Currumbin Beach, Tugun, Bilinga, Kirra, Coolangatta,
Greenmount, Rainbow Bay, Snapper Rocks and Froggies Beach. Duranbah beach
is one of the world's best known surfing beaches and is often thought
of as being part of Gold Coast City but is in fact across the New South
Wales state border in the Tweed Shire. The official name for the beach
is Flagstaff Beach. There are also beaches along many of the Gold Coast's
860 kilometres of navigable tidal waterways. Popular inland beaches include
Southport, Budds Beach, Marine Stadium, Currumbin Alley, Tallebudgera
Estuary, Jacobs Well, Jabiru Island, Paradise Point, Harley Park Labrador,
Santa Barbara, Boykambil and Evandale Lake.
