{"id":406649,"date":"2026-05-01T11:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/406649\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:57:10","slug":"long-for-remote-surf-this-australian-island-is-in-the-middle-of-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/406649\/","title":{"rendered":"Long for Remote Surf? This Australian Island Is in the Middle of Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-322957\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-322957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/lord-howe-island-670x388.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"388\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-322957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If a perfect vacation is no cell service, no TV, no crowds, and lots of surfing, then Australia\u2019s Lord Howe Island may be heaven. Photo: Justin Spencer\/\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/favicon-surf.png\" alt=\"The Inertia\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" class=\"lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo crowds, no traffic, no pollution, no crime, no TV, no phone, and no internet.\u201d Sounds relaxing. But sprinkle in some coral reef passes and warm-water surfing, and it must be a paradise.<\/p>\n<p>Those are the conditions as described by surf filmer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@JustinSpencers\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Justin Spencer<\/a>, who recently paid a visit to the remote Lord Howe Island. The island is 350 miles from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinertia.com\/surf\/gold-coast-duranbah-tubes-surfing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">mainland<\/a> \u2014 400 miles by boat from Sydney \u2014 out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. (There is an airstrip, too.) Only about 400 people live there, with plenty of waves for surfers who make the remote trek.<\/p>\n<p>According to Stormrider Surf Travel Guide, \u201cthe island\u2019s coastline is exposed to waves\u2026hitting a great variety of breaks, creating fairly consistent surf all year. A barrier reef stretches for six kilometers along the west side of the island, enclosing a beautiful lagoon. It is sliced by several passages, most of them being home to quality surf breaks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That description checks out in Spencer\u2019s video, depicting a stunning island with plenty of nooks and crannies to ride waves. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t get better than this,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If a perfect vacation is no cell service, no TV, no crowds, and lots of surfing, then Australia\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[85,138,177514,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-406649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-lord-howe-island","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}