Main Beach Queensland, in Australia, is a virtual island at the northern tip of the glamorous Gold Coast, Australia's holiday playground. It is well known for its high-rise apartment blocks and the upmarket restaurants and boutiques that line its high street, Tedder Avenue. Yet once you venture to its fringes, to the golden sands of its beaches to the east and tranquility of MacIntosh Island to the south, to the bustling Broadwater to the west and the rejuvenated Spit to its north, you will be struck by its natural beauty. This book is an exploration and a celebration of the natural rhythms of Main Beach, of the creatures that pass through and the ones here all year round, of the migrating sand and beach habitat, of the relentless ocean waves and the bush life.