Surfing Adventures: Discover the Perfect Waves in Maldives and Bali

A Surf Whisperer's Guide overview

It’s evening in Noosa, a small surfer’s town on eastern Australia’s Sunshine Coast. Tropicsurf founder and director, Ross Phillips, is sitting in front of a large canvas showing a cresting wave. He’s just got home after a long day, he says, but is always happy to talk about surfing. It’s his obsession, after all.

Important details from the source

• In this conversation, Phillips shares how and why it all began, plus his favourite surf spots.
• It’s evening in Noosa, a small surfer’s town on eastern Australia’s Sunshine Coast.
• Tropicsurf founder and director, Ross Phillips, is sitting in front of a large canvas showing a cresting wave.
• He’s just got home after a long day, he says, but is always happy to talk about surfing.
• Noosa is one of the best places to learn to surf in the whole of Australia, Phillips explains.
• It’s one of the few beaches in the country that faces north.
• That means the waves bend around in a particular way; they’re smaller and more gentle than most.
• That’s why Phillips opened his original surf school here – one of the first in the country, he says.
• Growing up in Brisbane, Phillips didn’t live far from the waves.
• He surfed for the first time aged six; “you never really forget the first wave you caught.

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