Photo Andy Morris, Surfing Australia
This weekend the fourth NRMA Insurance Seas The Day women’s surf festival is back at Kingscliff Beach with Surfing Australia.
The world’s largest female participation surf event is set to take over Kingscliff Beach 20 and 21 June celebrating women’s surfing, sport, community and connection.
Headlining the festival is one of surfing’s most recognisable and influential figures, Alana Blanchard. Also joining the event is Australia’s most decorated Olympian of all time, Emma McKeon, who will also be part of the festival, participating in the Ford Australia Celebrity Surf Challenge and helping encourage attendees to try new sports alongside the Australian Olympic Committee and its Have A Go campaign.
In 2025, the event attracted a record crowd of more than 15,000 people, with free activities, inspirational talks and workshops led by some of the most respected women in surfing.
Nearly 300 women and girls also took to the waves for the inclusive tag-team surf competition, with divisions spanning para surfing, shortboarding, longboarding and an under-14 mini-shredders division.
‘What I love is seeing women from all walks of life getting into surfing, from age five to well into their 60s – it’s such a great community. Events like this are so important because they celebrate every kind of female surfer – whether they’re competing, running a small surf brand, or just out there having a go. I’m stoked it’s all happening right here in Kingscliff,’ said eight-time World Champion Stephanie Gilmore.
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