"I sometimes take off just at the back of Lennox Head and do my surf check from a thousand feet up in the sky. Then as I keep flying I check all the beaches and see where all the banks are."

For the last seven years Ray Collins has straddled two ends of the civic spectrum. Three days a week he was working down a coal mine, the rest of the time he'd spend shooting high end surf photography. Something had to give.

In this age of second and third gen surfers, it seems every beach has a resident teenage phenom. Russell Bierke, however, sits apart from his prodiguous peers. 

Long suspected as somewhere in the Gold Coast hinterland, the site for Webber's wavepool was today revealed as Glenview on the Sunshine Coast.

Kalani David loose in Southern Sumatra as filmed by Sam Norwood.