Surf Bells Beach, Victoria, Australia

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Bells Beach is located in the Australian State of Victoria in the aptly named Surf Coast Shire abutting Australia’s famous Great Ocean Road. Lying 100 km from the world class city of Melbourne, Bells Beach is easily accessible from every part of the world. The Rip Curl Pro Surf and Music Festival (aka Rip Curl Easter Pro), the longest continuously staged surfing competition on the planet, is held during Easter each year at Bells. The competition has been won by some of the sport’s most famous practitioners with the underlying theme that those who win at Bells are automatically legends. Adjacent to the iconic surf town of Torquay, Victoria, Bells Beach is engrained into the consciousness of Australian surfers and those international board riders fortunate enough to test the prolific reef break with waves that range from 1 to 5 meters. The names of the most famous breaks ring familiar in the minds of surf aficionados: Centreside, Rincon, Outside Bells and Bells’ Bowl. Nearby Winkipop Reef sports a long, fast hollow right that runs for 300 to 400 meters. Although Bells is popular with the locals they welcome outsiders that respect the ocean and honor surfing’s traditions. Bells Beach was named as the world’s first surfing recreation reserve in 1971, is listed as a Victorian Heritage site and protected as a marine park partly in recognition of its importance in the social and economic fabric of the community. These designations insure that Bells will always remain wild and undeveloped. Should your dreams include surfing Down Under on the same water where the world’s greatest have put their skills on display for decades then a trip to Bells Beach in Victoria, Australia belongs on your list.

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