After a slow winter the East Coast finally comes alive with the Cape bearing its teeth.

"I think Burch is the modern day version of somebody like George Greenough."

From the crew who gave you Mirage - the surf history of Namibia's Skeleton Bay - comes a similar short doco.

Up until the weekend, the East Coast winter has been devoid of any major surf.

He's shaped for fifty years and taught almost as many people how to, making Murray Bourton the patriarch of a special clan.

This morning, a surfer was bitten while surfing Boat Ramp bommie.