First Point is the most famous of Noosa's national-park headland breaks: a long, clean, peeling right-hander that runs from the rocky point along the edge of the bay, producing rides that can stretch for hundreds of metres on the right swell. It is a longboarder's wave above all — slow, mellow, and forgiving — and on any good day the line-up will be packed three and four deep.
Beginners take lessons at Main Beach; intermediates paddle out at Little Cove. First Point itself is best left to people who know the etiquette. Even watching from the rocks is a pleasure: the geometry of the wave and the silhouettes of riders against the cliffs is half the appeal of being in Noosa at all.