If you need something to look forward too while suffering through the cold winter months then this may interest you.

The Perfect Wave travel company have teed up a combined photo/surf trip to Papua New Guinea this December. Joel Coleman of Saltmotion will be dog-paddling in the tepid seas whilst photographing the waves, the surfers, and the tropical scenery. The trip is on the PNG Explorer, a boat captained by Victorian surfer Andrew Rigby and his wife Jude.

Here are a selection of shots from one of Andrew's PNG trips last season, showing warm water waves and not a strip of neoprene to be seen.

Places are still available on The Perfect Wave's PNG photographic trip. To find out more click here.