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Always a great time for surfing, but this year may be a little different.

Good-Epic, Kandui, July 25, From Above Warning: goofyfoots may lose their collective minds on this one Marcus Sanders Link copied to clipboard Vid: Manu Miguelez The Indian Ocean has been very alive over the past few weeks. Especially in Indonesia. And this trend shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon — stay tuned, as we’ll be bringing realtime coverage from surfing’s favorite island chain as the swell(s) hit. Yeah, plural. Kevin Wallis breaks it down: “Similar to the storm that set up the Good to Epic waves at Lance’s Right in late May, the storm that set up this swell wasn’...

Good-Epic: Bali, July 31st More solid Indian Ocean swell pulsed into the Island of the Gods -- and then things got serious Marcus Sanders Link copied to clipboard Photo: Hamish Humphries It’s embarrassing, frankly. The Indonesian archipelago has been so good for so long that anyone who’s lucky enough to have been there over these past few weeks is almost suffering from some weird surf version of survivor’s guilt. The islands have seen three+ back-to-back-to-back swells just in the past week — which culminated in the biggest of the season so far, which hit August 1st. (We’re currentl...

Good-Epic: Southern NSW, July 5 Just one moment from an Australian winter on fire. Nick Carroll Link copied to clipboard Photo: Steen Barnes/16images To be perfectly honest, this could have been almost anywhere along the NSW coastline on this particular day. A weekend of beautiful, clean, soft if still well overhead surf was tracked in by something just a bit more muscular and long-interval. Right on cue, the coldest offshore winds of the year so far came gusting over the coastal escarpment above this splendid surf zone, brushing back dozens — nay, possibly hundreds — of wedged-up beachbr...

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