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Out Of Nowhere, The Goldie Lights Up And Kirra turns on a half day of real gold. Kirra, 11am -- just a few in the water. What a day. Photo: Andrew Shield. Nick Carroll Link copied to clipboard Nobody expected this. After three days of wonky onshores and a half-formed east swell, perfect Kirra just didn’t seem like it was on the radar. When photographer Andrew Shield drove by just before sunrise, he says, “Kirra wasn’t even breaking. It was high tide and super fat.” Mr Style, Asher Pacey, was one of the earlier arrivals. Photo: Shield. Shieldsy kept driving, up to Snapper, and found it...

So Day One Is Done - What Lies Ahead? Round one of the Rip Curl Newcastle Cup gives us an idea of how this thing’s going to run. You just know airs will feature here. Yago Dora, elevating to a second place in his first heat. Photo: Dunbar/WSL Nick Carroll Link copied to clipboard Yeah, the surf wasn’t too flash, and yeah, it was a Thursday, and yeah, it was April 1. (Not bothering with a joke here, it’s too tedious.) But for professional surfing, it was the opening day that so easily might not have happened.

Australia's Epic Long Weekend February 20-22 pumped, coast to coast. North Narra, Monday morning. Photo: Matt Dunbar Nick Carroll Link copied to clipboard There’s a dream day out there somewhere. A day when all of Australia’s 15,000-ks-plus of surfable coastline cranks as one. Imagine how fried we’d all be! Imagine how many barrels would be ridden, how many broken boards would be sworn at, how many dings would have to be fixed. Imagine the half-empty classrooms and the hit to national Gross Domestic Product. Imagine the overall stoke. He’s always barrelled! Taj Burrow, North Point Sun...

Swell Story: TC Lucas Pushes Kirra's 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 the first week of February, when two tropical cyclones popped in quick succession, and loaded up se...

And So It Begins... Could February be The Month? Early signs of a magical swell event are landing on the Queensland points right now. Photo: Ted Grambeau Link copied to clipboard Great months of surf rarely start with a bang. Instead they kinda grow on you, swell after swell, till at some point everyone wakes up to another perfect morning and thinks, “Whoa! How long’s this been going on!” That’s how February seems to be shaping up for surf communities around Australia — but particularly on the east coast, where the first pulses of a classic swell event are beginning to arrive.