The project's first stage - undertaken between 1995-1998 - involved dredging more than three million cubic meters of sand from the Tweed Bar and entrance to create a navigable channel. In response to the issue, the New South Wales and Queensland governments formulated the Tweed River Entrance Sand Bypassing Project (TRESBP) to maintain a safe navigable entrance to the Tweed River and restore and maintain the amenity of the beaches on the southern Gold Coast of Queensland. While the rock walls did help to improve the passage of watercraft for a time, their presence altered the erosion and sediment patterns of the southern Gold Coast beaches, resulting in a build-up of sand along Letitia Spit and significant erosion along the south Gold Coast beaches.īy 1994, large amounts of sand had moved past the end of the breakwater and created a large, shallow bar at the Tweed River entrance, which was highly hazardous to navigation, especially at low tide. These works culminated with the extension of the training walls at the river entrance during 1962-1965.Īlthough the extension of the training walls improved navigation for a period, the sand bar over the entrance began to reform in the 1980s and 1990s. River dredging had been undertaken in the Tweed since the late 1800s to improve navigability. Strong swells combined with dangerous rocks and sandbanks were a recipe for disaster for ships and swimmers on nearby beaches. It's no coincidence that Captain Cook named Point Danger and Mount Warning when he sailed past in 1770.
Since before European settlement, the Tweed River mouth entrance has been constantly plagued by strong currents, sand bars, and sandbanks, making it a difficult and dangerous stretch of water. The spot is home to a long, hollow right-hand wave that peels across the man-made Superbank.īut it wasn't always as perfect as it is today. Snapper Rocks is a world-renowned sand-bottomed point break located near Rainbow Bay on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. It is one of the most crowded but also one of the most exciting freight train waves in the world - fast and sometimes unpredictable. Someone once called Snapper Rocks the "Formula 1 of surf breaks." Here's everything you need to know about the Superbank's pole position wave.
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