This morning it's two foot in Sydney, yet last Friday Cape Solander was off the hook as a fresh east swell unloaded triple-sucking compression chambers on the shallow sandstone shelf.  Charlie Straumeitis was there to film the carnage (and occasional moments of glory).

Darryl Menzies gets a different view as the waterborne photographers surround the Cape Solander pit. All photos by Darryl.

Part-time photographer, Glen 'Sully' Sullivan, dives headlong into the Cape Solander line up while Steve 'Jonesy' Jones keeps his ankles dry.

Following yesterdays Session featuring the Cronulla homeboys, here is a gallery with the Cape Solander 'away' team - all those crew from north of Botany Bay heads.

It may have been the Maroubra fellas that broke it to the mainstream but it was Cronulla surfers that were the first to ride Cape Solander. They surfed it for four or five years, joined by a few bodyboarders, among them Cronulla legend, Steve Doney. Later on, in the 1980's, a group of Cronulla bodyboarders began surfing it and gave it the name Cape Fear (or Deniro's).

Surfing's own Superhero threaded a few tricky pits during a fly-in fly-out session at the Botany Bay reefbreak during the recent run of swell in Sydney. Grant Trouvile was on hand to film three of his waves.//STUART NETTLE

Cape Fear, Cape Solander, Ours....Sydney's heaviest waves has had many monikers but its original name - first given to it in 1968 - is the one that I like best: Pikers Hole. Despite it's reputation as the thickest and shallowest wave around, Pikers Hole was overshadowed on the weekend by it's lesser siblings.

Those who choose the Middle Path seek moderation between different kinds of self-destruction

Autumn has got off to a slow start but good waves are just around the corner.