This one is for the Sunny Coast proletariat. All the workers who headed off to the salt mines while the best swell in ages hit their local beaches.

Kelly Slater delivered the performance of the day opening up with an excellent 9.77 before dropping a perfect 10.00 for a 19.77 heat score.

"How strange it was to see men do something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant."

- Tim Winton, Breath.

Observations and anecdotes from the best East Coast swell in recent memory.

Three days on the NSW South Coast scoring nuggets unearthed by the recent east swell.

Required viewing from Spencer Frost.

Taj Burrow surfed his final CT heat today against John John Florence and the bout proved to be the premiere battle of the season thus far.

In the latest instalment of 'License to Chill' Mason Ho plays chicken with that rock outcrop down past Rockpiles. Not really sure who won.