The March long weekend in Tassie is when the state's premier surfing event takes place. With around 140 competitors taking part it's our biggest event on the surfing calender and now in its 34th year.

Under glorious blue skies bathers frolicked on the rocks, sailboats bobbed about in the bay and surfers took turns on the waves. What better way to spend a summers day then launching off a ten foot, triple-sucking death ledge? All photos Nicholas Green.//STUART NETTLE

Better than any tourist brochure, these photos of Tassie will leave all surfers salivating. That leaves, oh...about 1500 k's of jagged coast to find these waves. Good luck... All photos by Nigel Eberhardt.//STUART NETTLE

The weekend delivered a beautiful late season swell across southern Australia, with Shipsterns lighting up under a smooth offshore breeze and bright blue skies.

Nigel Eberhardt has had a rough trot of late.