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Punta Borinquen, Puerto Rico, announced as 11th World Surfing Reserve

The coast from Crashboat Beach to Surfers Beach at Aguadilla has been selected as the 11th World Surfing Reserve. Punta ...

Bay Street Beach & Santa Monica’s African American heritage –for the National Register of Historic Places

Sea of Clouds, today, announced its intention to nominate Santa Monica’s Bay Street beach area (Los Angeles County, California), a ...

Wanna run away from it all?

An island in the Falklands is up for sale, complete with an army of penguins and its very own four-mile ...

R.I.P. Scott Dillon

One of the original Brookvale Six, a larger-than-life character, a ratbag, a pioneering surfer and surfboard manufacturer, stockcar racer, big-wave ...

Surf Collective, Shark Tank, Barrenjoey High on Sydney’s Northern Beaches

Surf Collective supports the best independent Australian surf brands, some bigger names but mostly labels and products you may not be familiar with. If you’re ...

Burleigh Boardriders Single Fin Festival

The Burleigh Heads Boardriders Club 22nd annual Single Fin Festival presented by Billabong and Vonu celebrates the surfing, surfboards and ...

Shark attack at Nambucca Heads, Mid North Coast NSW

A surfer is in a serious condition after suffering deep lacerations to his leg in a shark attack at Nambucca ...

Thomas Lodin launches his first book: Impressions

We ran eight pages of young French photographer Thomas Lodin’s extraordinary surf and scenery photos from the Basque country in ...

New PLB Moai Tee

This is our first new PLB T-shirt in years . . . so why a happy Rapa Nui Moai? Our illustrator ...

Places Filling Fast for 2019 Noosa Festival of Surfing

It would seem as if Christmas has come early for several hundred longboarders around the world, with many of the ...

THE WILKERSON SURFCRAFT “MOJO” WINNER!

Phil Pratt was struck speechless when we phoned to say he was now the owner of the Wilkerson Surfcraft Mojo. “This ...

Update from the Noosa Fest – joint news from the Noosa Malibu Club and World Surfaris

Newly-crowned WSL world champions, South Africa’s Steven Sawyer and Californian (and festival regular) Soleil Errico, are sure to be prime ...

South African "Steezy" Steven Sawyer takes the 2018 Men’s WSL World Longboard Championship – photos & wrap

Sawyer came up against longboarding legend Kai Sallas (HAW) in an incredible 25 minute Final at the Taiwan Open of Surfing in ...

17-year-old Soleil Errico crowned 2018 WSL Women’s World Longboard Champion - wrap & photos

In a thrilling final at Jinzun Harbour, young Californian pair Soliel Errico and Rachael Tilly went toe-to-toe in clean 2-to-3 foot ...

Day 5 – World Titles, whittled to the final 12 men – photos, wrap, results

The stage is set for an epic weekend finale after yet another great day of surfing from some of the ...

World Championship opportunity for amateur surfers at the Noosa Festival of Surfing

Announcing just a few days ago that the 2019 tour will kick off at the Noosa Festival of Surfing in ...