Today was the zig that followed yesterday's zag. After a day at Telescopes we hit the boats and headed south to HTs.

Today we took Miki Dora's sage advice and "zigged when the others zagged."

Despite the conditions Occ had his best day surfing so I've devoted most of these shots to him.

August was another amazing month to be scouring the Maldivian reef passes for perfect empty line ups.

How quickly you swing into island life. It's only the second day of the Surf with Occy trip and already the sessions are blurring into one another.

So this was the first day at Aloita Resort. Grinding pipes at Suicides, the closest wave of consequence, six foot high and two foot deep.

The waves are coming out of the sky in Tahiti today, but before the swell reached French Polynesia it sideswiped New Zealand's East Coast.

More gold from the best season in years.