This time of year it rarely goes flat up here. Even when the space between swells gets measured in weeks there's enough languid energy pulsing up the Tasman to refract and keep the beaches topped up. And then when the swells do hit there's shelter to be found in the lee of protruding headlands bringing an order to services. 

Swell or no swell, Jack Dekort captures the early winter rhythms of the NSW North Coast.