"I am like a drummer in a rock band, keeping the rhythm, the beat on track."

Big surf, almost too big at times, provided a stunning backdrop to the day's competition.

A fantastic double-billing in Byron this weekend.

Back to pumping point surf after a Latin American leg that never fired.

Intrepid surfer Kepo Acero teams up with Naxto Gonzalez in search of perfect empty waves.

By default and design, I'm now almost purely a point-break surfer. It didn't start that way.

This morning, just as dawn broke in Manly, with a clean 3-5ft southeast swell running, Australia lost one of the icons of surfing and the surf industry.