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Out The Other Side: It Just Kept Pumping, Again Just for the record, some extra gold from July 11 and 12. Jack Andersen, deeper than is humanly possible. Photo: Ian Bird. Nick Carroll Link copied to clipboard “We were saying we were secretly hoping it’d go onshore.” So said one of our hot shot correspondents from Sydney’s very own Puerto Escondido, South Narrabeen, yesterday. Apparently everyone had had enough. No more huge barrels! Please! Well we’re pretty sure they’ll have change...

A lot of people thought this was over. It soooo wasn’t.

Sequence of the Week: Matt Dunsmore, May 8, 2021 Cape Solander doesnt always do this. Nick Carroll Link copied to clipboard photography by Hayley Alderton Friday in Sydney was big and a little wayward from the east and south. Then the wind turned offshore, and Saturday’s sun rose over long, thick, clean lines. When this happens, small groups of people head to the area’s ledges and slabs. But very few of them get a wave like this one. Photographer Hayley Alderton almost wasn’t there for th...

The Late Call Kipp Caddy in the Cave. All photos: Ben Bagley @benbagleyphoto Nick Carroll Link copied to clipboard Last Sunday, while a lot of people in the Narrabeen area were semi psyching about the final days of their very own backyard CT, another bunch of people were freaking out. Dylan and Summa Longbottom, Ryan Hipwood, Joel Parkinson, Wayne Cleveland, Kipp Caddy and friends had something quite different in mind — a late call mission to Tasmania’s renowned super-slab. Thing was, the f...

Parko, Laura Enever, and Friends Relive One of Their Most Epic Surf Trip Strike Missions Thursday April 22, 2021 Staff Some of the best surf trips are the last minute ones. The surf trip that you didn’t know you were going on until you were going on them. The ones where you didn’t know where you were going until you got there. The ones where a question mark hovers constantly. Such was the case with Billabong’s Adventure Division trip that you see above, where Ryan Cal...

Swell Story: TC Lucas Pushes Kirras Button Early February — time for the Gold Coast to dance. Harry Martin, Coolangatta Beach. Photo: Andrew Shield Nick Carroll Link copied to clipboard Tropical cyclone season in a La Niña year can be a total tease. Anticipation builds for weeks, if not months. Old guys tell you crusty yet epic stories of that 28 day swell in 1975. The weather maps look good, and then they don’t. Then at some point, things start popping. That’s just what happened during ...

Five Rides (And a Wipeout) From New South Wales Super Session Pipeline comes to Australias East Coast, featuring Paul Morgan, Laurie Towner, Matt Dunsmore and more Surfline Link copied to clipboard Video by Spencer Frost As we reported over the weekend, Thursday January 21 was an exceptional day up and down the NSW coast — especially if you like your swells on the bigger, scarier, hairier side of things and knew exactly where to go. Big wave sessions were all over the place, but perhaps this ...

Australias East Coast Served a Heavy Dose of South/SSE Power Fickle reefs and distant bombies light up NSW Zen Joyce. Photo: Zach Bowden (@bigzphoto) Surfline Link copied to clipboard Aussie surfers have been enduring endless weeks of an Instagram feed flush with giant waves hitting Hawaii and California this North American winter, which is all well and good, but it’s nowhere near home. This week, however, the East Coast of Aus got its own serving of raw ocean power, peaking on Thursday Janua...