“All Quiet on the Surfie-Rocker Front” – cinema newsreel from 1963

History of Gold Coast Beaches

There’s a lot of sand bagging and pumping and groyne building going on in this 18-minute film, produced by Griffith University. “This ...

Vanimo Surf Lodge PNG – fully revamped, and the waves have been firing

From manager Dave: Well coming back into an operational state after Covid lockdowns proved to be an onerous task in more ...

LISTEN: "Painting in reverse" with velvet painter Baron von Miller

When Baron von Miller decided to paint on black velvet, he had big shoes to fill. His father Percy Miller ...

The Groove Girls club, Gold Coast – as reported on The ABC

As reported by The ABC: It was a passing insult while she was out surfing in 2019 that inspired Stephanie Teixeira ...

Watch the 16-minute film “Victorian Pioneer Manufacturers - Klemm Bell & Pat Morgan”. Directed by Glen Hunwick, narrated by Bob Smith, and great surfing on vintage boards

Following the previous short films celebrating significant surfboard manufacturing pioneers of the '60s and '70s, (George Rice ‘Then and Now’ and ...

Surfer numbers double at some Gold Coast breaks in five years as council looks to manage the wave

Parts of the Gold Coast are experiencing some of the fastest population growth in the country. But the popularity of one of ...

Quirky, mystique-laden, the coolest of the cool – Pat Curren gone at 90

A pioneering shaper and thinker and a fine craftsman, Pat Curren was regarded as the best big wave surfer of ...

“Queensland Playground” – a leisurely 8 minutes of joy from the Gold Coast in 1957

No highrise,  no groynes, and just a smattering of shiny happy people . . . oh for a time machine. Dug up ...

A couple of newies on Roaring Journals – George Greenough V Brown Snakes, plus The Women of the Mimal Ranges

The Roaring Journals is a collection of frontier stories from the wildest corners of the country, the ones we play ...

60 years on, Australia’s surf music super group The Atlantics release new album of all-originals “Still Making Waves” – to be released on Australia Day

In 1963 Australia’s radio waves and early black & white television music shows were filled with a new phenomenon – ...

Women surfers in Peru finding joy in and out of the water

On My Way is a photo series that explores how women build their own safe space in a male-dominated sport. Located in ...

Mount Longboards: Original surf apparel from New Zealand – online & bricks & mortar store – CHECK OUT THE VID

“Massive for us this summer. We recently shot a cool video featuring some surfing and our prints and is being ...

THE NEW PLB - ISSUE 113 - Mick the Mighty Proofreader brings the inside info on what's in it

Mighty Mick the Hyphen brings us his run-down on what lies between the covers of the newie: >> FEATURES BOBBY BROWN & ...

OUR 98th BOARD - WIN A CHELMAN SURFBOARDS VOLAN 9’1” DOUBLE ENDER

A lifetime surfer raised in his parent’s original surf shop and shaping bay in Port Macquarie, Ryan Chelman’s been building all sorts of ...

BILL & HIS GIRLS WIN THE CARABINE

When we phoned Bill Davidson to tell him he’d just won the Carabine Shakey in our 97th subscriber board giveaway he ...

Butterflies that drink turtle tears - and geez you're a sensitive bunch, surprisingly this was among our most visited web pieces of '22 (first posted in April)

This has nothing at all to do with surfing but have you ever heard of anything more poetic? It happens ...