Surfpolitik

So what's to be learnt from the dreadful overdevelopment of the Bukit Peninsula? Nothing! Welcome to the 'new Bali' in southern Lombok.

Next year there'll be five QS events in Indonesia. When's the CT gonna revisit the best surf nation on Earth?

In 2017 pro surfing is riding high on the goodwill of one man. It's not the first time we've got a leg up from a well-heeled stranger.

He's been kidnapped by the KGB, started Surfrider Foundation, National Surfing Reserves, and World Surfing Reserves too, but Brad Farmer's advocacy is based on more than mere love for the ocean.

I had been to Noosa once before, in the days when the milk bar on the main drag was the social centre of a rather isolated coastal village.