You may be unfamiliar with his name but Santa Barbara's Andrew Bennett recently had the trip everyone wants - six days in the Mentawais, six days of perfect waves.

The timing is bad. The Indonesian swell season has just begun with surfers filtering into the archipelago, while on Bali an outbreak of Dengue fever has struck. Dr Joel Menzies provides sound advice to all surfers intending to make the trip.

Of all the ASP's recent acquisitions the Big Wave World Tour has the most potential for mainstream appeal. Yet for it to succeed the organisers must pursue conflicting objectives: put the sport's largest names in spotlights while also including unknown local soldiers.

Otis Carey has been crowned Australian Indigenous Surfing Champion at Bells Beach taking down former Australian Champion Russell Molony in small but clean waves.

I don't want to click. I really don't. But what if this story is the one? What if this story is as exciting as the headline promises? What if..?

And on the clickbait express we go....

Artist, musician, surfer, and skater, Ben Brown slides easily from role to role. Yet it's his art that's taken him beyond the tabernacle of Sydney's Northern Beaches. Ben recently spoke to blindboy.