It's the news all fans of pro surfing have been waiting for: Owen Wright will make his return to competitive surfing next month.

It's Australia Day and what could be more Aussie than listening to a Scottish-born singer on the shores of a Maldivian island?

A series of photographs show a 10-year-old in a close call with a great white shark north of Newcastle, with the boy unknowingly surfing over the top of it.

Zeke Lau mixes cool menace with airborne flair and he's packing his bags for the big time.

John John stars in Walsh's signature film. Does the support act beat the headliner?

Erm...yeah.

Never mind Van Gogh or Shakespeare, a pristine Wilderness - high art from surfing's Romantic period - has been uncovered in Yamba.

Part highlight reel, part bloodbath, Tom Lowe joins forces with Mickey Smith for some block rocking beatdowns.

For two days late last week Pipe was at its season best with a young cadre of surfers showing how it should be ridden

Immigration scam? Drug mule? What was old mate doing when he was rescued six kilometres off Wollongong last weekend.

It's mid range Nazare filmed from a sky high vantage.