With the contest and cyclone season arriving together here in SE Queensland, the points were firing for a few weeks before the Snapper event started. Noosa First Point, the perpetual home of the Noosa Festival of Surfing and a sacred ground for Australian longboarding, was breaking for weeks.
One of the most sought after surfing treats, the long perfect points of Noosa rival the points of California. Usually ranked behind Malibu, Noosa First Point is a fantastic wave. At times I question this ranking of second, as Malibu is a standalone point where as Noosa First Point is the bottom point of a five-point headland set up. When the right swell arrives (as it did for the 2010 festival) the three points, National Park/Johnsons /Little Cove and First point can all connect. This can give the rider waves well over 1.5km in length.
As Cyclone Marcia was poised north of us, the weather began to get pretty tropical. The pattern of lows embedded in the monsoon trough produced solid waves for weeks at First Point. The longboard crew–both local and traveling–as well as local WCT surfers Julian Wilson, Dimity Stoyle and Longboard tour competitor Nic Jones, have all been partaking in the feeding frenzy that is crowded, frantic, perfect, First Point Noosa.
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