So Russel Crowe’s the biggest South Sydney Rabbitohs fan? Hardly!

JBay cranking for the finals – Day 5 wrap and photos

After a week of non-stop firing waves at the South African Longboarding Championships presented by RYD Brand, sanctioned by Surfing ...

JBay – Day 4 – The Kids Are Alright

The South African Longboard Championships presented by RYD Brand, sanctioned by Surfing South Africa continued for Day 4 in overcast ...

JBay – Day 3 – longboarding extravaganza

A moody sky and fresh offshore wind set the scene for Day 3 of competition at the South African Longboarding ...

Day 2 – Point, Jeffreys Bay – SA Champs

Day Two of the South African Longboarding Champs presented by RYD Brand sanctioned by Surfing South Africa kicked off in ...

Jeffreys Bay delivers pristine waves, Day 1, SA Longboard Championships

The world famous right-hand pointbreak did not disappoint, delivering nothing short of perfect, lined-up waves.The first day of the South ...

An island under siege

Just as we’re all reeling from the bleak IPCC report, regulator NOPSEMA have quite literally added fuel to the fire, granting ConocoPhillips approval ...

Ben Aipa paddle out celebration, Magic Island

This is a 50-minute video, and producer Kyle Metcalf says:  "Uncle Harold spoke about Ben Aipa, the man, the icon, ...

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

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

When crabs invade

Robber crabs are the world's biggest land crustaceans, and on Christmas Island you better look out if you’re on a ...

Finding, restoring and sharing Australia's lost surf films – check this out, from Jolyon Hoff:

Years ago, while making Searching for Michael Peterson, I found myself digging through the garages and cupboards of Australia's surf filmmakers ...

“Upwelling” – while there’s a heatwave in the US, the ocean is strangely chilly in Southern California

Surfers along Australia’s east coast will be familiar with the oceanographic phenomenon “Upwelling”, which often sees the ocean get unseasonably ...

The oceans give us life. We give them plastic.

From Parley South Africa & Sentinel Ocean Alliance: From the rivers and warm Indian Ocean of Durban, to the icy South ...

This newly discovered “playful” seahorse is the size of a grain of rice - and it's flourishing

From the Wonders of the Sea file: Meet the Japan pig, a newfound species of pygmy seahorse discovered in Japan. Only ...

Half of single-use plastic waste produced by just 20 companies

Bloody grim this – the news from Reuters: Production of single-use plastics is set to grow 30% in the next five years, ...

Rare first edition of Tom Blake’s book at Noosa Longboards store

"Athlete, inventor, and writer, Tom Blake is renowned as one of the most influential surfers in history." Noosa Longboards has a most ...

Maverick the Surfing Cat with a cause

The felines in the PLB shipping department are working way too hard to go surfing, but no doubt there’s a grudging ...