Bangarra Dance Theatre, SydneyCredit: Destination NSW | Usage: For media use only in Australian markets to promote NSW.
Bangarra Dance Theatre performance, Sydney. For media use only in Australian markets to promote NSW.
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Feel the rush of catching your first wave in the surf at Freshwater. Feel your cheeks ache from smiling all night in delight at a theatre performance. Feel the crisp air fill your lungs as you reach a Snowy Mountains peak. Feel silence surround you as you stare up at the stars in Mungo National Park. Our Feel New film immerses viewers in some of NSW’s most diverse experiences. Here are seven that will make you feel new.
Feel New Credit: Destination NSW | Usage: For media use only in Australian markets to promote NSW.
Welcome to NSW. Discover new experiences, and feel energised again. The 60-second Feel New commercial immerses viewers in some of NSW’s most diverse experiences.
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Feel New Credit: Destination NSW | Usage: For media use only in Australian markets to promote NSW.
Welcome to NSW. Discover new experiences, and feel energised again. The 60-second Feel New commercial immerses viewers in some of NSW’s most diverse experiences.
Abseil the cliffs of the Blue Mountains Credit: Destination NSW | Usage: For media use only in Australian markets to promote NSW.
Strap yourself in and take a leap of faith. Abseiling and canyoning in the Blue Mountains brings heart-pounding, stomach-fluttering thrills, bringing you face-to-face with the World Heritage-region's sheer cliffs high above an endless carpet of trees. Drop into the cool dark caves of Grand Canyon, or slide down alongside cascading waterfalls at Empress Falls, encountering hidden creeks and fern-covered pathways you can only find if you grab that rope and jump off the edge.
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Abseil the cliffs of the Blue Mountains Credit: Destination NSW | Usage: For media use only in Australian markets to promote NSW.
Strap yourself in and take a leap of faith. Abseiling and canyoning in the Blue Mountains brings heart-pounding, stomach-fluttering thrills, bringing you face-to-face with the World Heritage-region's sheer cliffs high above an endless carpet of trees. Drop into the cool dark caves of Grand Canyon, or slide down alongside cascading waterfalls at Empress Falls, encountering hidden creeks and fern-covered pathways you can only find if you grab that rope and jump off the edge.
Kayak through untouched waterways in Bellingen Credit: Destination NSW | Usage: For media use only in Australian markets to promote NSW.
Watch the glassy water ripple, hear river bugs buzz around the mangroves, spot wallabies jumping along the bank beside you. A paddle along the rainforest-lined creeks and estuaries that thread out of the Bellingen or Kalang Rivers offers a certain kind of peace and quiet, where there’s nothing to worry about but leaning back and enjoying the everchanging scenery. Drift to secret beaches, fishing spots and even places to snorkel; you never know what’s around the bend.
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Kayak through untouched waterways in Bellingen Credit: Destination NSW | Usage: For media use only in Australian markets to promote NSW.
Watch the glassy water ripple, hear river bugs buzz around the mangroves, spot wallabies jumping along the bank beside you. A paddle along the rainforest-lined creeks and estuaries that thread out of the Bellingen or Kalang Rivers offers a certain kind of peace and quiet, where there’s nothing to worry about but leaning back and enjoying the everchanging scenery. Drift to secret beaches, fishing spots and even places to snorkel; you never know what’s around the bend.
Watch a life-changing performance in Sydney Credit: Destination NSW | Usage: For media use only in Australian markets to promote NSW.
There’s something special about being in an audience: stepping into someone else’s story, just for one night. Sydney’s theatres offer front-row seats to new and emotive experiences year-round, from glittery moments of fearless expression at a drag performance to scenes that make you laugh and cry at must-see award-winning musicals, and important First Nations stories that tell their 65,000-year-old tale through powerful dance.
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Watch a life-changing performance in Sydney Credit: Destination NSW | Usage: For media use only in Australian markets to promote NSW.
There’s something special about being in an audience: stepping into someone else’s story, just for one night. Sydney’s theatres offer front-row seats to new and emotive experiences year-round, from glittery moments of fearless expression at a drag performance to scenes that make you laugh and cry at must-see award-winning musicals, and important First Nations stories that tell their 65,000-year-old tale through powerful dance.
Climb to new heights in the Snowy Mountains Credit: Destination NSW | Usage: For media use only in Australian markets to promote NSW.
It gets wild in the Snowy Mountains, where winter’s breath coats the national parks, alpine villages and steep hills in a magic dusting of fluffy white snow. Once you reach the top, feel at one with the mountain as you slice through the powder on ski or by snowboard, weaving your way through perfect runs and rugged eucalyptus glades. Summer days are just as freeing, with lakes, rivers and open plains the launching points for hikes, fishing boats and horseback rides.
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Climb to new heights in the Snowy Mountains Credit: Destination NSW | Usage: For media use only in Australian markets to promote NSW.
It gets wild in the Snowy Mountains, where winter’s breath coats the national parks, alpine villages and steep hills in a magic dusting of fluffy white snow. Once you reach the top, feel at one with the mountain as you slice through the powder on ski or by snowboard, weaving your way through perfect runs and rugged eucalyptus glades. Summer days are just as freeing, with lakes, rivers and open plains the launching points for hikes, fishing boats and horseback rides.
Get lost in the Art Gallery of NSW Credit: Destination NSW | Usage: For media use only in Australian markets to promote NSW.
The hallowed halls of Sydney’s Art Gallery of NSW are home to thousands of stories from across the world, from ancient artisans to contemporary creators. These evolving collections live and breathe, and a wander through them connects viewer to artist and opens the mind. Learn about Indigenous culture through its storied crafts; find relics from Asia and the Pacific; and go deep into Australian history through paintings, photography and more.
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Get lost in the Art Gallery of NSW Credit: Destination NSW | Usage: For media use only in Australian markets to promote NSW.
The hallowed halls of Sydney’s Art Gallery of NSW are home to thousands of stories from across the world, from ancient artisans to contemporary creators. These evolving collections live and breathe, and a wander through them connects viewer to artist and opens the mind. Learn about Indigenous culture through its storied crafts; find relics from Asia and the Pacific; and go deep into Australian history through paintings, photography and more.
Hit the open road in the outback Credit: Destination NSW | Usage: For media use only in Australian markets to promote NSW.
In NSW’s outback, you’ll feel like you've landed on another planet. Red earth sketches ancient secrets on rock. Stars scatter across outstretched velvet skies. Otherworldly formations rise from the dirt. From artistic bolt-holes in Broken Hill to beautifully twisted landscapes in Mungo National Park, a road trip through this diverse part of Australia will take your breath away.
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Hit the open road in the outback Credit: Destination NSW | Usage: For media use only in Australian markets to promote NSW.
In NSW’s outback, you’ll feel like you've landed on another planet. Red earth sketches ancient secrets on rock. Stars scatter across outstretched velvet skies. Otherworldly formations rise from the dirt. From artistic bolt-holes in Broken Hill to beautifully twisted landscapes in Mungo National Park, a road trip through this diverse part of Australia will take your breath away.
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Mulwala Water Ski Club, MulwalaCredit: Destination NSW
Mulwala Water Ski Club located in the Riverina Murray region in Mulwala, offers an outdoor bar and casual relaxed dining overlooking Lake Mulwala. Learn to water ski on a world-class, private, twin lake the Max Kirwan Ski Park.
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Cool off with an adventure: NSW is a watersports playground
Mulwala Water Ski Club, Mulwala Credit: Destination NSW
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Hot sands, wild rivers, bays with towers of coral and waves that curl like a rockabilly quiff – NSW is a paradise for adventure on and under the water. For adrenaline-chasers, there are world-class waves and whitewater runs, foils and jet boats built for speed, and reefs home to sharks and turtles. For the quiet adventurers, try paddleboard expeditions, fishing for rainbow trout and bass in pristine rivers, and colourful snorkelling spots.
Your next adrenaline hit
Surfing may be the famous action-hero of the NSW watersports scene, but the state’s rivers, lakes, bays and beaches also host a huge diversity of aquatic adventures to get the heart racing. Take in Sydney Harbour’s icons, while spinning, splashing and thundering past in a jet boat with Oz Jet Boating or Thunder Jet Boat. In Western Sydney, Penrith is a hub for adventure. Penrith Whitewater Stadium, purpose-built for the 2000 Olympics, is uniquely set up for both beginner paddling and intense raft adventures, as well as kayak courses where you can test yourself against Olympic times; Cables Wake Park teaches you to wakeboard via zipline (jumps and obstacles included); and Jet Pack Adventures lets you feel like a water-powered Iron Man.
In Brooklyn, on the Hawkesbury River, Jet Ski Safaris will take you around the bends of the river at 30 knots, while Fliteschool Manly and OzFoiling (with multiple locations on the Mid North Coast) will teach you how to cruise the coastline via eFoil, a motorised surfboard that glides above the water like an elegant seabird. Outside of Sydney, on the Murray River, encounter one of the greatest and oldest waterski clubs in the world at Mulwala Water Ski Club.
Find a wave
With reliable breaks on some of the world’s most picturesque beaches, NSW is a premium spot on the international surf circuit. Surfers with their own board and years of experience behind them can find world-class waves all up the coast while newbies can join in on a surfing lesson, all you have to do is choose which one and which beach. You can also practice on a perfectly shaped, perfectly reliable wave (with multiple options suitable for beginners or experts) at URBNSURF, Olympic Park’s surf park, and finish off with a meal at RAFI, the onsite Applejack-run restaurant and bar that overlooks the waves.
URBNSURF Sydney Credit: Applejack_Sandy’s_URBNSURF Sydney
URBNSURF Sydney
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Oz Jet Boating, Sydney Harbour Credit: Destination NSW
Experience the incredible speed of the red shark boats as they blast across Sydney harbour at high speed with Oz Jet Boating.
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Oz Jet Boating, Sydney Harbour Credit: Destination NSW
Experience the incredible speed of the red shark boats as they blast across Sydney harbour at high speed with Oz Jet Boating.
Explore NSW’s coral reefs
The pristine, ecologically rich seas of NSW have seen the development of 10 protected marine parks covering more than 100,000 square kilometres, offering a haven to wildly diverse range of sea life. Beyond those areas, in the harbour and the bays of the coastal cities, there are also vibrant ecosystems ripe for snorkel or scuba dive trips. Self-guided snorkelling can be done in most places along the coast and, provided you have the equipment and training, so can diving. Or learn the ropes with a tour. Woebegone Expeditions and Courses will teach you how to explore the reefs of the South Coast with safe, freediving techniques; Region X Snorkel Tours has you jumping off a kayak with a snorkel around Batemans Bay; and Ecotreasures fits in a headland walk between time in the aquatic reserve around Manly. For new divers, you can explore the lower North Coast with Jetty Dive Centre or the tropical far North Coast with Cooly Eco Adventures. While Sydney Underwater Scooters will set you up with a handheld swim-assister and show you the clear waters and underwater fauna of Sydney’s Gordon’s Bay.
Paddling sunrise to sunset
Every river, bay and lake has a different scene and a different story, and cruising on a kayak, canoe or stand-up paddleboard (SUP) lets you discover at your own pace. NSW is also full of explorers and local experts ready to guide you along the way. In Sydney, Sydney Harbour Kayaks and Sydney by Kayak will introduce you to the harbour at its multicolour best with dawn and dusk paddles. Manly Kayak Centre has both hire and guided options for kayaks and SUP, as well as giving you the opportunity to try your hand at SUPBALL, which is like polo but replaces the horse with a SUP. Cronulla SUP and Balmoral Paddlesurf let you explore less famous, but no less beautiful, beaches of Sydney’s south and north respectively.
On the Sapphire Coast combine your next river adventure with a story, like on Navigate Expeditions’ Aboriginal Culture Tour, where you journey into the land’s Indigenous heritage, or a Kayak and Shuck Tour where you visit the oyster farms. On the North Coast, social enterprise and SUP tour guides Wajaana Yaam Adventure Tours offers cultural eco-tourism on a paddleboard around the pristine waters of Solitary Island Marine Park. Not far away in The Tweed, Watersports Guru offers SUP lessons and hire, allowing you to cruise the waters Cudgen Creek while taking in the local birdlife – if you’re lucky you may even see a pod of dolphins.
Reel in a new experience
With pristine rivers and wild oceans, NSW is a dream for fishing for both newbies and those looking for the next big catch. Out on the oceans of the South Coast Kiama Charter Service will help you pull in your first deep-sea fish (go for blue-eye trevalla, gemfish or hapuka). While Port Macquarie Fishing Charters, Reel Ocean Adventures (in Tuncurry) and Evans Head Deep Sea Fishing Charters, provide the boats, deep-sea equipment and vibes on the North Coast. Inland, learn traditional yabbying in the bush at Narrabri Fish Farm, or set up your own line on NSW’s most epic jetties at Coffs Harbour, Lake Macquarie and Lake St Clair in the Hunter Valley. If you know the ways of a fly fisher, the Snowy Mountains and Blue Mountains are the hot spots.
Kayaking, Sydney Harbour Credit: Destination NSW
Friends enjoying a day of kayaking on Sydney Harbour.
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Kayaking, Sydney Harbour Credit: Destination NSW
Friends enjoying a day of kayaking on Sydney Harbour.
Navigate Expeditions, Kalaru Credit: Destination NSW
Guests on a walking tour with Navigate Expeditions in Kalaru
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Navigate Expeditions, Kalaru Credit: Destination NSW
Guests on a walking tour with Navigate Expeditions in Kalaru