Noosa Points settle after Uesi for Noosa World Surfing Reserve Celebration

Noosa World Surfing Reserve Dedication Announcement

Noosa will be declared a World Surfing Reserve this Friday, 21 February, becoming only the third Australian surfing destination to be so honoured, but surfing royalty from around the world is expected to start arriving about a week before to enjoy some small runners at the Noosa points.

The official dedication will be held at the surf reserve cairn near the gates of Noosa National Park, with more than 100 surfers, surf legends and champions, environmentalists and dignitaries attending the ceremony, followed by a public celebration from 3pm at the Noosa Festival of Surfing site at Main Beach, with surfing exhibitions, featuring World Surf League world champions past and present, including seven-times world champion Layne Beachley, and Reserve ambassadors Jordan Mercer, Josh Constable and Noosa Boardriders Club’s Dean Brady.

Behind the scenes during dedication week, a large delegation from California-based World Surfing Reserves, its parent organisation Save The Waves Coalition, and the Founders’ Circle of global philanthropists whose funding has helped protect endangered surf breaks around the world, will be thrashing out the elements of the Noosa Reserve’s ongoing programs with the Local Stewardship Council. Dean will also give the Saves The Waves coalition team and founders a personal tour and surf check around our World Surfing Reserve. It’s good to know that Noosa Boardriders Club is involved and has a seat at the table as the NWSR stewardship and Noosa surf management plans are developed.

World Surfing Reserves and Save The Waves chief executive Nik Strong-Cvetich said: “For decades Noosa has been a leader in both surf and conservation culture in Australia and worldwide, and now it deservedly joins the network of WSRs around the world as a shining example of how to do it right.”

PHOTO CAPTIONS (ABOVE): Noosa World Surfing Reserve ambassador Dean Brady deep in a classic Noosa barrel somewhere east of Boiling Pot. Photo Nathan Tyack. (BELOW): Frequent Noosa visitor Layne Beachley hard at work at First Point.