I'm gonna let y'all in on a little secret about Tim Bonython...

This year the Perth beachies have outdone themselves. They've regularly served up solid sessions and Mike Maxted has been Johnny-on-the-spot to document it.

Like a reaper on the rocks, Benny Serrano stood atop the Deadmans cliff this morning. Hooded and grim with violin pressed to his neck he played a soft lament.

Spud Salazar gets cannonballed out of a Cape Solander beast.

"First stop was a classy right hander known as Joysticks which is located in The Bay of Plenty. The name says it all, when you are surrounded by four breaks...well, that's plenty."

While a classic winter south swell hit Tahiti, a rare unseasonal east swell has been gracing the Queensland and northern NSW points.

Square and shallow, this wave bears an uncanny resemblance to the Box at Margaret River, except it ain't that Box, it's the other Box.

'Twas a spectacular light show at Manly last night, however the observers weren't looking skyward but across at the waves.

Over the last couple of years Steve Arklay has escaped the slow Victorian summer by spending time in Papua New Guinea.