Cinnamon Dhonveli named Leading Surf Resort 2025 - South Asian Travel Awards

Yi-Wo – watch it now

Among many things, Thomas Campbell made three enduring and influential surf movies The Seedling (1999), Sprout (2004) and The Present (2009) – and now finally his ...

Did you know? The term “goofyfoot” sprung from Walt Disney’s character Goofy!

In 1937 Walt Disney made the first-ever animated surf movie Hawaiian Holiday. It starred Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Donald Duck, ...

The 1920s shark attacks that shook Sydney

A century ago, Sydney experienced a spate of deadly encounters that continued for a decade and left authorities scrambling for answers. On 12 ...

PLB editor JB has a chat on the Surf Town Podcast

Too many podcasts are not enough apparently, so JB recently sat down to talk about surfing and life and this ...

I built a massive wave pool in my own backyard

A 20-minute vid by Ben Gravy from a privately built DIY wave pool, with new technology, that no-one’s ever seen, ...

“Riding the Crest” - Surfing Hawaii – 9-minites from Waikiki in 1940

A newsreel from Pictorial Films: “Produced by Frederic Ullman, Jr., for Pictorial Films in the early 1940s, this relatively short “Sportreel” ...

Surfing In The Sixties - Mona Boys – full 30-minute film

Doco about the surfing community at Mona Vale on Sydney's Northern Beaches in the mid 1960s.  By Phil and Russel Sheppard – ...

1968 Surfing World Titles, Puerto Rico – 17-minute sports doco

The 1968 World Championships in Puerto Rico has historic significance as it was held at the beginning of the shortboard ...

Orcas sink yet another boat off the coast of Portugal

News from National Geographic: Watch how orcas sank yet another boat off the coast of Portugal Orcas are at it again.   Around noon ...

Brave Kiwi woman’s morning swim with curious orcas - FULL VERSION

This was one of our most watched clips of 2024 so let's give it another run - it's bloody heart warming ...

Beautiful Bali in 1940 – an 8-minute video - “We salute this island paradise”

“It has been estimated that there is more equally distributed wealth in Bali, than anywhere else in the world” BEAUTIFUL BALI ...

Bali 2025: Tourism has poured in billions of dollars over decades. Where has it all gone?

News from The Age  As Australians tend to demonstrate, a trip to Bali can be hazardous. Many routes to the ER ...

Surfing Sydney’s Maroubra Beach in 1948

A Surf Lifesaving Carnival in some whopping surf – a newsreel from 1948. Dug up from British Pathe by Ian Lording: “Man ...

WIN A WAYNE LYNCH SURFBOARDS 8’4” EVO – our 108th subscriber board giveaway

Yes this issue it’s a Wayne Lynch Evo model – a refined and updated version of the board Wayne rode ...

The Most Important Skateboard Contest in History

This is a 15-minute doco from Real Skate Stories: “In April 1975, the world of skateboarding stood on the edge of ...

Orcas are ramming boats again and scientists now think it’s a game

News from NatGeo: Experts say the whales seem to learn to play with boats from a young age. "Believe me: if ...