Tweed Heads
Tweed Heads is a coastal city at the mouth of the Tweed River in the Northern Rivers region of the state of New South Wales, Australia.
Tweed Heads is the northernmost town in New South Wales, and is located in the Tweed Shire local government area. It is situated 830 km (520 mi) north of Sydney and 103 km (64 mi) south of Brisbane. The town is next to the border with Queensland and is adjacent to its "twin town" of Coolangatta, which is a suburb of the Gold Coast in Queensland.
Getting to Tweed Heads
- 01Gold Coast Airport
Worth seeing
- 01Point Danger
Most prominent headland of the Gold Coast and the point where the New South Wales / Queensland border meets the sea.
- 02Fingal Head
- 03Tropical Fruit World
An educational park where tropical fruit is grown for experiments, viewing and tasting.
Things to do
Scuba diving There are several scuba dive companies using Cook Island as their dive location. Cook island is the small island first mentioned by James Cook when he named Point Danger and Mt. Warning in 1770, about 2km offshore.
Where to eat
Tweed Heads has a vibrant club scene based on service and sporting clubs, much larger than the shire would normally sustain. The background to these establishments is that for many years poker machines were prohibited in Queensland, but allowable in clubs in New South Wales. Thus clubs proliferated just over the border in Tweed Heads, thriving on holiday traffic from the Gold Coast and on day trippers from Brisbane.
- 01Coffee Club
Reflection on the Sea Building, Shop 4, 120 Marine Parade, Coolangatta,.
Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: H. Zell (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.