Coming to you from the state where the waves are big, water's cold, and beards are bushy.

Wasn't just the pros scoring down south in WA last week. With succesive long period swells striking headlong into easterly offshores the Cape to Cape coast was wide open. 

'Twas another incredible day at The Box. Each heat was well balanced with an equal number of barrels and beatings which made for great viewing.

Russell Bierke had a brand new 10 foot dark orange gun ready to take out. The swell was thick, hard, and growing.

Round 1 commenced in unruly waves at The Box where a "twos or tens" performance unfolded. Surfers either scored real high or real low - they got a barrel or a beating - there was no middle ground.

Strengthening onshore winds built an impressive short range swell across the Torquay coast on Thursday.

AC/DC's Hell's Bells rang out over a mild morning with clean 3 foot sets running down Rincon reef for the first day of the Rip Curl Pro. 

If you're like me the first thought that ran through your head after looking at the first shot of Gabriel Medina is 'did he land it?'

It was a slow old day at Shippies yesterday but when the sets hit Shippies did what Shippies does - throw as wide as it is tall.

A mid-range swell, all day offshores, and scalloped banks: all the ingredients for beachbreak bliss.