Okanui opens new flagship store at Pacific Fair on the Gold Coast

OUR 100th BOARD WINNER! – THE RILEY BALSA 9’6”!

David Mercer from Bulli sure scored when we phoned to say he’d won our 100th subscriber board – the unique, fully ...

Update on “Some Like It Classic” movie - shot on 16mm colour film over 7 years - tailer, synopsis & news

A tribute to the 1965 film “Some Like it Wet" and the great, but largely unknown, “Some like It Smooth".  "Some Like ...

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 ...

OUR 100th BOARD – WIN A RILEY BALSA FOAM-CORE 9’6” GUN!*

YES 100! And to be drawn before next issue! Every issue for 20 years we’ve given a magazine subscriber* a top-end longboard, and ...

From super melons to rug rats, Plow has your noggin covered

We rarely do product plugs here on the PLB site, or in the magazine, but we were so taken with ...

History of Coolangatta – a 12-minute vid from “The doorway to Queensland”

Produced in 2011 & covering the history of the southern end of the Gold Coast back to James Cook. “The history ...

100 FREE SURFBOARDS!

It’s taken a while but we’ve hit the ton! Seriously, where are those Guinness people? It was somewhere back around the ...

Old Mal Titles Galore!

For boards from before the revolution – the Queensland, Victorian, and Australian Titles are all looming. The 2023 Queensland Old Mal ...

Check this out for a smile – the 1 Foot Warrior and coffin ride barrel – video & chat

This is Mark Hill, and if this doesn’t bring you a smile maybe it's time to check your pulse. Over to ...

A global surge of heat

The Taylor Swift ticketing debacle has received more coverage, but here’s some other news as reported by The New York ...

HOT READ! PLB magazine catches fire on the Nullarbor Plain while heading to West Australia

“Please be advised that due to a fire on one of our linehaul trucks to Western Australia, your magazine stock ...

RIP Gordon Woods – original Australian board great gone at 98. This was an extraordinary life – read about it here, in his own words

A pivotal member of the original Brookvale Six, Gordon made his first board when he was a grommet at Bondi ...

THE NEW PLB - ISSUE 115 - 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 GENTLEMAN JOHN PENNINGS ...

BEN FROM CAMDEN HEAD WINS THE CARABINE

When we rang Ben Thompson on a Saturday arvo to tell him he’d won the Carabine Shakey he was at ...

Surf artist calling Scottsdale home

In an unassuming shed off a lane in central Scottsdale lives a world-famous black velvet artist and surf memorabilia collector. Baron ...

Do you work in the Medical, Health, Fitness or Wellbeing fields? Or maybe you’d just like to surf some Maldivian peelers with medical types?

From Atoll Travel: Perhaps you’re an Anaesthetist, Chiropractor, Counselor, Dentist, GP, Life Saver, Nurse, Nutritionist, Obstetrician, Osteopath, Paramedic, Personal Trainer, ...