| Coolangatta and Gold Coast Car Hire:
This southern city lies on the Queensland and New South Wales border as the gateway to South East Queensland. The Gold Coast Airport is located within 5mins drive of Coolangatta Beach and its accommodation & shopping district, a feature rarely seen anywhere else in the world!
Coolangatta is a great introduction to Queensland. The north-facing beaches Coolangatta, Greenmount and Rainbow Bay are popular swimming and surfing beaches. With walking tracks connecting the headland between Rainbow Bay and Coolangatta, forming part of the Southern Points Promenade and GCCC’s Oceanway network of 36km’s of walking/bike tracks, you can explore the coastline at your own pace.
Coolangatta and nearby Tweed have historic links. Captain Cook named Point Danger and Mount Warning as he sailed up the east coast in 1770. The Tweed River was developed as a port from the 1830s to ship cedar.
In early land surveys in 1883, the Twin Towns of Coolangatta and Tweed Heads were laid out on each side of the border. Coolangatta’s charms were discovered by holiday makers in the 1880s with visitors from Brisbane and northern New South Wales gravitating to the pretty beaches annually.
Coolangatta has Queensland’s first surf life saving club – Tweed Heads & Coolangatta SLSC, formed at Greenmount Beach in 1911 and soon after, guest houses started to appear along the beachfront. |
