When you drive along this beach with the windows down, the colours of the water and the sand dunes flow together to create a vibrant kaleidoscopic memory that you will not forget. And even on cloudier days, it is still an amazing little spot.
You are surrounded by beautiful little coloured fish. They literally will swim towards you out of curiosity and then stay with you as you swim around, especially next to the wrecks.
The waterfall breaks over a fallen tree, and the result is something that seems out of a fairytale – you’re in a cave, watching a waterfall break and churn into a creek that flows between a rainforest. At night, the entire underside of the cave lights up with hundreds of glow worms.
This particular spot was amazing because we found it entirely by accident. After watching riders do their practice runs all day from the finish line, we found this field of little yellow flowers. It was beautiful.
Coolangatta beach is one of the most popular beaches on the Gold Coast in Australia. During the year, sometimes you can watch whales breach off in the distance, and occasionally you can see dolphins swim in quite close to the shore.
With stunning waterfalls surrounded by dense Australian bush, this place is special. Interestingly, Cedar Creek Falls was also the shooting location for television series Terra Nova. Even so, this magical little spot remains (mostly) a secret.
