Frantic phone calls and hurried flights pay off for Hayden O'Neill.

"We started and ended June in the same fashion: surfing a pumping, barreling right. In between this we went left. I'll let the photos do the talking on how that went."

"It was like hot knife through butter on a canvas," said Parko of the conditions at J'Bay, and who could dispute him? Fella scored 18.84 in his Round 2 heat at J'Bay.

When the year's biggest swell is forecast to hit Indonesia and perfect waves are just three hours away it's time to fire up the Honda.

Going surfing by plane, especially a small propeller plane. How could you ever get blase about it? The deep thrum of the props vibrating through your body, headsets on, surfboards stacked down the aisle.

Here's a swell that ticked all the boxes: lines to the horizon; favourable winds; blue skies; and best of all, at least for the weekend warriors, it peaked on Sunday.

Chris White hit the highway during the recent WA swell. Heading north by northwest he stopped and scored at one of Australia's best lefts.

"It simply doesn't get any better." So went the summation from Saturday at Kandui. No point in me trying to describe the surf, these photos say more than anyone ever could.

Looking forward, looking back. As the Australian big wave community prepares for a thunderous swell to hit Indo and our west and south coasts, let's look back at the last big swell to hit our shores.

"After what has been one of the slowest starts to a Mentawai season in years, the Indian Ocean finally awoke from its slumber in early June."