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Consistently in the top five surf movies of all time, Morning of the Earth was once seen as a gamble

Consistently in the top five surf movies of all time, Morning of the Earth was once seen as a gamble

The following is an extended article from renowned news journalist Mark Bannerman via Australia's ABC. Remastered and restored 50th Anniversary DVD copies of Morning of the Earth are avalable here The year was 1971. The place Bali. Two men stood on a reef, holding their ...


Danny in South Australia takes delivery of his Sugar Mountain HTD Model

Danny in South Australia takes delivery of his Sugar Mountain HTD Model

From Robe on the Limestone Coast of South Australia, our 96th subscriber board winner and father of four Daniel Slater lives ...

The Haleiwa section from

The Haleiwa section from "High On a Cool Wave"

From Bob Evan's fifth film. It documents Nat Young, Bob McTavish & George Greenough testing their new board designs. It also features emerging stars Peter ...

Millions of synchronised lobsters on the march, this week in West Australia

Millions of synchronised lobsters on the march, this week in West Australia

And they all turn to exactly 283 degrees north-west! Here’s one for “this fascinating ocean file” – news from ABC ...

The Duke, the Stockholm Olympics, bringing surfing to Australia, death on the fields of France in WW1 – the extraordinary story of Cecil Healy

The Duke, the Stockholm Olympics, bringing surfing to Australia, death on the fields of France in WW1 – the extraordinary story of Cecil Healy

"He is someone that Australia should remember as an example of what young blokes can do when they go out ...

Shaping Methods of Mike Davis

Shaping Methods of Mike Davis

This 14-minute video was supplied by Little Cove Surfboards out of Noosa. Mike Davis grew up in Santa Barbara, moved ...

Got blocked ears after a surf? Pardon?

Got blocked ears after a surf? Pardon?

Well a lot of us have hey, and a disclaimer up front here, this is a blatant plug for the ...

Five minutes of the long-lost footage from Australia’s First “Professional” Surf Contest

Five minutes of the long-lost footage from Australia’s First “Professional” Surf Contest

Plastic Machines and Trackers had recently come and gone in quick succession, and now little eggs and pintails and what-not ...

Stingrays recorded making sounds for the first time – vid from Australia

Stingrays recorded making sounds for the first time – vid from Australia

One from This Marvellous Ocean File: Whales sing, shrimp snap, and toadfish hum. But the stingray? Until recently, scientists believed the flat fish ...

Surf Lakes to build “the biggest surf park development on the planet” – in Texas

Surf Lakes to build “the biggest surf park development on the planet” – in Texas

The Yeppoon plunger technology is heading to Austin – and everything really is bigger in Texas apparently. Here’s the news as ...

Heavy locals - incredible session when a couple of whales surf Lennox Head - video

Heavy locals - incredible session when a couple of whales surf Lennox Head - video

 Surfers on Australia’s NSW North Coast found themselves with some majestic company when a pair of whales sliced the waves alongside ...

Octupuses given MDMA “become more social”

Octupuses given MDMA “become more social”

You have to wonder who funded this study, but anyway, here it is as reported by the BBC. *This is a ...

Interviews with Albe Falzon and Justin Misch on the remastered Morning of the Earth

Interviews with Albe Falzon and Justin Misch on the remastered Morning of the Earth

In lssue 110 of Pacific Longboarder magazine we took a look at the newly-released video of Morning of the Earth, Albe ...

WSL 4-event Longboard Tour for 2023 – new format, dates, locations

WSL 4-event Longboard Tour for 2023 – new format, dates, locations

Well the 2022 three-stop series was the best year in a while, especially after that epic at Malibu, and it’s ...

Magic day at Malibu – Harrison Roach & Soleil Errico win WSL World Titles – wrap & results

Magic day at Malibu – Harrison Roach & Soleil Errico win WSL World Titles – wrap & results

First Point was chest-high and peeling with an ideal swell angle from the south wrapping right down the point, and ...

The judging breakdown for Malibu – from head judge Tory Gilkerson

The judging breakdown for Malibu – from head judge Tory Gilkerson

An A-class longboarder, Tory qualified for the WSL Longboard Tour in 2012 and won the WSL World Title in 2016, ...

New book:

New book: "SURF LIFE - Women Who Live to Surf and Create"

This book unexpectedly landed on our desk recently, and what an exceptional publication. With fine profiles and great photos of 27 ...

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