Gold Coast – ban the bikini?

Latest updates from the Rip Curl Lennox Longboarders One Dayer 2024

From the Lennox Longboard Club: Entries for this years Rip Curl Lennox Longboard ‘One Dayer’ being held on Saturday March ...

Surf Radio! Crescent Swells show 82 - track list, tune in

“We are back into the swing of things on Crescent Swells here is the latest show. A bit of old, ...

Does being the furthest out to sea increase your risk of a shark attack?

Do you too get a little freaked out when you see those lone distance swimmers well out to sea chugging ...

A bootleg of the maestro Phil Edwards

From Miki to Midget and, well, everybody who surfed through the ’50s and ’60s, to the loggers of today, every ...

ISA World Longboard Championships on again at Surf City El Salvador for 2024

Not a lot of news on the format of the 2024 WSL World Longboard Tour as yet, but the ISA ...

Tati tests her Takayama at Freshie

Over the years we’ve phoned 101 Aussies to tell them they’ve won a top-end board just for being a PLB ...

Australia’s Surf Lakes moves to America

Yeppoon’s big steam-packet plunger is totally unlike any other wave pool technology out there, and as reported this week by ...

Melanoma skin cancer is 120 times higher in surfers than in the general population

Guess we kinda knew that already, but now via a new study by the Southern Cross University the prevalence has a ...

Woman attacked by a bull shark in Sydney Harbour – saved by a local vet

As reported by ABC News: Woman suffers serious leg injury in bull shark attack in Sydney Harbour A local vet has been ...

So just how good was Kevin “The Head” Brennan? Check out this bootleg vid!

From a time when loose and expressive styles came natural.  When just 15, “The Head” famously won both the juniors and seniors ...

How a sugarcane cutter and his mates created a world-first DIY surf break at Burkitts Reef, Bargara

From The ABC, Bundaberg Coast, Queensland: It took Greg Redgard more than a decade to convince his local council to ...

Did you know? The term “goofyfoot” sprung from Walt Disney’s character Goofy!

In 1937 Walt Disney made the first-ever animated surf movie Hawaiian Holiday. It starred Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Donald Duck, ...

The full 70-minute doco – “Makai Side - a History of Hawaiian Surfing”

Presented by Maui Salt and Sage Magazine, and subtitled “How Did We Get Here?”, this hour-ten movie is an engrossing ...

BARZ OPTICS – LATEST SUNNIES WINNERS: NZ, Netherlands, and California

Every issue of the mag we pull four random international subscribers out of the hat for pairs of Barz sunglasses ...

“Queensland Playground” – a leisurely 8 minutes of joy from the Gold Coast in 1957

No highrise,  no groynes, and just a smattering of shiny happy people . . . oh for a time machine. Dug up ...

Millions of plastic pellets wash up on the Atlantic beaches of Northern Spain

So grim. As reported by The Guardian (the reader-supported news source that cuts through misinformation) Northern Spain on alert as plastic ...