Oceania
Australia
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The lucky country gives you amazing diversity from big cities to endless beaches, tropical rainforests, lush wilderness and hot deserts. Disc golf courses here seamlessly fit into the landscape from inside ancient volcanic craters to the Australian bush where you might just see kangaroos bound by during a round.
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Why Visit?
Australia’s six states and two territories offer the visitor plenty to see and do with featured disc golf courses clustered mainly around the big cities. The biggest city, Sydney, in New South Wales and has some great beaches and a beautiful harbour that's home to the downtown area. Explore trendy Melbourne or venture down to Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. Witness how passionate this country is about its sport at Melbourne Park and all the venues nearby that stage everything from tennis' Australian Open to cricket and Aussie rules football.
Queensland, especially in the Far North, gives you year round warm tropical temperatures. The Gold Coast fills with beachgoers and surfers as humpback whales migrate up the coastline past the towering highrises along the shore. Past Brisbane you reach the Sunshine Coast that's less brash and more sedate than its southern cousin but still offering beautiful beaches and coastline. Canberra, the nation's capital, is the political heart of the country and sits halfway between Sydney and Melbourne with several of Australia’s larger museums. South Australia gives travellers the chance to sample delicious wines from the Barossa Valley, or hit the outback out of Coober Pedy. Western Australia, the capital Perth is the gateway to exploring this remote state where you can drive for miles on the open highway without seeing another vehicle. And across the Bass Strait, is the island state of Tasmania with its dense forests and abundant wildlife. Australia has its own unique wildlife from Kangaroos to Koalas and Quokkas and it's home to the world’s largest coral reef system, the Great Barrier Reef.
Things to Do
Sydney’s downtown is a great place to explore. Here you’ll find the Sydney Opera House and Darling Harbour with lots of bars and eateries. At Circular Quay you can catch a ferry around the harbour or across to Manly or Taronga Zoo. Bondi Beach, especially in summer, is packed with beachgoers and surfers taking a dip in the Pacific Ocean to cool off. There’s also the popular Bondi to Coogee Coastal Walk that follows a path past beaches and the iconic ocean pools. Melbourne is less surfer and more cafe culture with great shopping and the gateway to jump in a car and head down the Great Ocean Road, a 243km stretch along the Victorian coast with stunning views including the famous Twelve Apostles rock stacks.
Owing to its geographic isolation, Australia is home to many animals and species that are found nowhere else on earth. There are plenty of animal sanctuaries and zoos to explore around the country where you can see Koala bears, Platypus, Kangaroos, Wombats and of course crocodiles. In Queensland, there’s the Australia Zoo made famous by the late Steve Irwin which includes a Crocodile Environmental Park. Also in Queensland is the world’s largest sand island, K’gari (Fraser Island). Venture up to the Far North and Cairns where you can easily access the Great Barrier Reef. Or soar above the rainforest on Skyrail Cableway from Cairns to the Atherton Tableland.
Western Australia is a huge state with Perth as its capital. See the unique and cute Quokkas on Rottnest Island, swim with Whale Sharks on the Ningaloo Reef or ride camels on the beach up in the top of the state in Broome. The island of Tasmania is only an hour’s flight from Melbourne and home to a wild and protected wilderness and with unique animals like the Tasmanian Devil - the world’s largest meat-eating marsupial.
Where to Play
Australia has more than 150 disc golf courses but most of them are condensed in the regions popular with tourists. Get used to doing a lot of driving in Australia, particularly long distances - this country is almost the same size as the contiguous US. In Tasmania, Hobart is the state capital and the most populated. Twenty minutes north of Hobart is Poimena Reserve Disc Golf - Australia’s oldest public course that gives you great views over the island and ocean. Melbourne has a healthy number of disc golf courses in and around the city including; Ruffey Lake Disc Golf Course that’s beginner friendly or out of Melbourne, there’s the more challenging Inverleigh Disc Golf Course. Head out west of the city and you’ll find two top 10 courses in Ballarat - Mount Xavier Disc Golf course and Victoria Park Disc Golf. If you’re heading along the Great Ocean Road you can extend the trip a little further and get to Australia's top rated course, situated in a 5000 year old dormant volcano, Crater Lake Disc Golf Park.
Sydney also has a number of disc golf options spread around the outer regions of the city. The Newington Armory Disc Golf Course, at Sydney's Olympic Park was the city's first permanent course and a popular choice . Queensland’s state capital, Brisbane, has a few courses - drive about 30 minutes north of the city and in Moreton Bay is the top rated and popular Pine Rivers Disc Golf Course.
Over on the other side of the country Western Australia in Perth there’s a few shorter beginner-friendly disc golf courses as well as Mundaring Disc Golf, that’s in the country’s top 10 about 40 minutes east of the main city centre.
