After all, Queensland and Northern NSW are usually the regions that get delivered the festive joy, while Vicco rests its weary head. Not this time however, Vicco - at least the stretch east of Melbourne - received a pumping post-Christmas swell while everywhere else languished (parts of WA and SA not withstanding...settle down tribesmen). Karl Bromelow took the shots of a summer that has been turned on its head.//STUART NETTLE

There's 200 guys in the water at Rocky Point today, and there's 300 photographers on the beach shooting them. Yet here's Karl Bromelow walking his local beaches alone, looking at empty line-ups and asking the question: where the bloody hell are you?! That question only works for dippy blondes, Karl.//STUART NETTLE

Karl Bromelow is the sole witness to a magnificent morning of wave