Depraved Paradise: Perth’s $100m surf park and Western Australia’s gutted soul

That drop-in at Uluwatu, the punch and the aftermath

From a social media post, to surf news sites, to articles on major news outlets worldwide, that ugly incident of ...

Easter Treats with Crescent Swells – track list, tune in

“This is an Easter treat with heeps of sweet tunes, Bells, Chocolate, Movie of the Week is  ‘Getting Back to ...

Bill Davidson with the 10-foot Carabine he won a couple of issues back

Yes that red beauty really is 10-foot – it’s just that our 97th board winner Billy is 6’5”!  A bit late getting ...

The Gold Coast’s Flotsam Festival - full program – a fortnight with everything . . . everything!

The program has been announced, with the website and ticketing for the two-week film, photography and digital celebration of all things ...

The Wrecks & Relics 2023 – info & entry

From Darlene Gower & Peppie Simpson: Calling all Legends of the Sea. It's time to gather for the annual surf event, ...

The inaugural Oceans Film Festival – endless summers, big waves, marine life, music

The Dana Point Film Festival (DPFF) today announced the first-annual Oceans Film Festival dedicated to filmmaking featuring marine life, ocean health, ...

A particularly grisly mystery in the Pacific Nothwest – solved by science

You never know what might be floating around - a repost of our most-read piece from this week last year ...

Rick Griffin & George Greenough Exhibit at SHACC

From California’s Surfing Heritage & Culture Centre: You’re invited to a very special day at SHACC on Saturday, April 15, ...

The Yanks Down Under - original footage from the 1956 visit that changed Australian surfing forever.

The US and Hawaiians lifeguard teams bring their finned “Malibu" surfboards to Sydney and Torquay and start a revolution. This is ...

SOUL kicks its 2023 season off with a bang

Comp report and pics from way down the bottom of Oz in the fresh waters of Victoria: Southern Ocean Union of Longboarders (SOUL) ...

Best of Crescent Swells, Vol. 3 – track list, tune in

“Hope you enjoy the show” -  From DJ David Bell   STREAM IT HERE TRACK LIST 1. Here Comes The Sun - The Riptides 2. Aloha Steve ...

Sand Mining – a promo newsreel - sheesh

Australia’s beaches got heavily mined for minerals throughout the 1960s and ’70s across the length of our long East Coast. ...

West Australia: “Aloha” Cottesloe Longboard Club Wahines Day – wrap & photos

The CLBC held a Wahine’s (Women’s) event at Cottesloe’s Isolator surf break on March 18, and club membership has grown ...

“Haiku” – the full 17-minute film from Karina Rozunko & Jimmy Jazz James

Short stories, and abstract interludes from Mexico, Sumatra, Japan and Bali.  A Vans production of an experimental Surf Film by Karina ...

Wrap, results, photos - the Lennox Longboard One-Dayer

News from George & Boothy: Well the 2023 RIP CURL Lennox Longboard ‘One Dayer’ went off without a hitch, the ...

“Glide” – the full 10-minute travel piece with Josie Prendergast in West Java

Filmed & edited by Mike Calvino. Photographer: @lturiano – for Billabong Womens: “Josie had been wanting to do this trip ...