Why do coral reefs make the perfect backdrop to perfect waves? This week, Chris Buykx dives below the surface to explain - amongst other things - why the water is so clear and the colours so vivid.
A thunderstorm rolls in while the surf is pumping, what should you do?
With the storm season approaching Swellnet went in search of answers.
Chris Lovell captures a recent swell at Desert Point from almost every possible angle, each view revealing its improbable perfection.
Chris Lovell captures a recent swell at Desert Point from almost every possible angle, each view revealing its improbable perfection.
Bill Finnegan - the celebrated author of Barbarian Days - swaps keyboard for surfboard as Padang Padang pumps and Phil Jarratt tries to keep up.
...and where the Grower meets the reef.
Two years after failing to find "surfer's gold" in Indonesia's outer islands, Chris Goodnow, along with Tony Fitzpatrick and Scott Wakefield, lands in the Mentawai Islands. It's May 1980 and the trio are arguably the first surfers to set foot there....Read the full feature 16
