The guide

Doing · Soul Surf School

Surf lessons

Boards and a lesson booked around the tide rather than the timetable. We arrange it before you land.

Students walking the sand at Byron with their boards

The lesson

Booked to the tide,
not the timetable

Byron is one of the easiest places in the country to learn. The beach break at the western end of Main is forgiving, the water is warm most of the year and the whitewater runs a long way, which is the part that makes a first lesson feel like a success.

We book with Soul Surf School, who have run lessons here for years and put beginners exactly where they should be. Tell us who is surfing and we will fit the lesson to the tide, have the boards there and make sure nobody is standing on the sand waiting.

Photograph courtesy of Luxury On The Bay

Where it is

The western end
of Main Beach

Lessons run off Main Beach, two minutes from the houses in town.

Pacific Ocean Byron Shire N Belongil Clarkes The Pass Wategos Lighthouse Tallow Suffolk Park Main Beach
2 minWalk from town
~2 hrsA lesson
All agesFrom seven up
Who runs it

Soul Surf School, on the sand at Main Beach.

What is included

Board, wetsuit, instructor and a beach briefing.

Group or private

Both. Private is worth it for anybody nervous.

Best tide

Mid, pushing in. We book around it rather than around the clock.

Worth knowing

Book it for day one. Everybody wants a second lesson and the good slots go.

Byron Bay

Where to
from here

Send us the names and the dates. We will match the lesson to the tide and to the house you are in, and you will not have to organise a thing.

Contact the team

Keep going

More of
the bay

Pool and deck at Wanda, Suffolk Park

The Collection

Six residences
The park and the sand at Main Beach

Knowing the Bay

Beaches, eating, getting around
Deck table looking through Norfolk pines to the water

The Concierge

Chefs, transfers, treatments
Bedroom with ocean light

Book now

Every open date, one chart

Instagram

Follow along

@luxury.onthebay