Protect Australia’s Ocean for Good - Speakers – Films – Live Music

DAVE TAKES DELIVERY OF THE RILEY BALSA 100!

Our 100th subscriber board winner Dave Mercer has now picked up the fully handmade Riley Hawaiian Balsa Gun from Sydney and for now it ...

Meet Mick - “You surf bums have made me change my mind."

A man who needs no introduction in the beautiful island of Tasmania, we hear from Mick Lawrence, a surfing elder, ...

Logger Heads New Zealand - 10th anniversary - entry & news

"Kia Ora Whanau, it is with gratitude and appreciation that we welcome entries for Logger Heads Tekau.  "We have some pretty ...

The 25th annual Agnes Water Classic – entries open – dates and divisions for 2024

Entries are now open online for the Annual Agnes Water Longboard Classic  - with 344 spots over 21 divisions over 6 ...

“Taka & his Sisters” WATCH the full 16-minute film from Bells

Such a great mini movie by Ted Clarke. Sisters Kaede and Sakura Inoue are also ripping. Says the filmmaker Ted: “Young ...

Here’s how they handled the shark menace in Sydney in 1964 - high-tech, foolproof

Our most visited post from this week last year: A newsreel for British cinema and TV, featuring packed northern Sydney beaches ...

News & Trailer for “You Should Have Been Here Yesterday”

The new epic from The Surf Film Archive:  “The official trailer for the upcoming feature documentary You Should Have Been Here ...

Board bags made different, & made in Australia – Seasick Threads

The news from the man that sews them:  “Quite simply, my name is Tom. I want to offer people something different as ...

“Beyond Sunset” – Emi Erickson and her single-fin guns – the full 25-minute movie

“It’s easy to think that she just gets it from her father. After all, Roger Erickson is a legend in ...

Great white found 'split in two' on Aussie beach

Here’s the latest of a run of news pieces on orcas feasting on whites – from the ABC: A great white ...

Layne Beachley got her first pair of Okanuis at 13 – and she’s back as a brand ambassador

Vid and news direct from Okanui: "She's a 7-time world champion surfer, passionate environmental campaigner, champion of mental wellness and ...

“Point of Change” feature movie on Nias at the Byron Bay Film Festival this Sunday – with panel discussion incl. the originals Wendy Adcock and Kevin Lovett

Directed by Rebecca Coley, Point of Change tracks the experience of the tiny island of Nias, Indonesia, after two surfers ...

Victoria: “Multinational TGS is proposing the biggest 3D seismic blasting project on earth” – Surfrider news & petition

“Not only is the 5.5 million hectare seismic blasting proposal over two whale sanctuaries, over multiple fishing grounds, and over ...

Eastern brown snake at Currumbin Alley – unfazed by the passing crew at one of Australia’s busiest surf breaks

Yes we ran a story on last week’s NewsWire about a brown that bit a grandmother on a solo surf ...

“The Love Mix” - Surf Radio! Crescent Swells track list, tune in - Show 65

“Crazy times for me at Crescent Swells. We got married the other Sunday at Manly Yacht Club - all while Crescent ...

The oldest footage ever shot of surfing - Thomas Edison’s “Surf Scenes” – filmed in 1906

Three minutes: “Panoramic View, Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands.”  "Hawaiian Islands" is a 1906 actuality film by Thomas A. Edison's studio. ...