Just another day at the beach turned out to be anything but at Surfers Paradise Beach in Queensland, Australia. Late Saturday, Tropical Cyclone Alfred made landfall near Brisbane, Australia.

By the time it arrived, many beaches had already suffered erosion from days of intense ... Islands acted as a natural buffer, protecting Brisbane from stronger storm surges—but at a cost.

Flooding rains will continue for days to lash a region of the Australian east coast even though it avoided its first tropical cyclone in 51 years.

Wild seas and beach erosion at Miami Beach on the Gold Coast.Credit: Dan Peled But many locals here – and on the Sunshine Coast to Brisbane’s north – were reluctant to heed the authorities ...

Ex-Cyclone Alfred has caused beach erosion so extreme, it's left escarpments up to six-metres high in some dunes, including on iconic Gold Coast tourist stretches.

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“This represents a serious risk for infrastructure close or adjacent to these beaches and dunes.” The erosion and debris at Kings Beach on March 7 before the Tropical Cyclone Alfred crosses ...

The Gold Coast has around 52 kilometres of beaches in which a large portion of these have been damaged by erosion. Tom Tate, the Mayor of the Gold Coast, is yet to release the estimated costs of ...

One freak 17-metre wave was recorded near Brisbane ... may need to intervene to help return the beaches to their natural state. "On places where erosion has been extreme, dunes might have been ...