The worst kept secret in surfing is now official: Keramas will become the fifth stop on the 2013 World Championship Tour.

The 2013 Volcom Pipe Pro began with 124 warriors going to battle at the fabled Banzai Pipeline yet by late yesterday afternoon, only four men were left stan

I know there's been waves, you know there's been waves, everyone on the East Coast knows there's been waves so I won't bore you with scene setting or any wri

It was just after daybreak this morning when the 2013 Volcom Pipe Pro was called on for the second day in a row and soon the round of 96 was back underway wi

Noosa Heads - it's the first place to feel a new north-east swell and it's ridable under all but the most extreme and persistent northerly storms.

Today marked day five of the 2013 Volcom Pipe Pro waiting period and after four straight "lei days," mother nature finally cooperated.

It was never going to be a swell that lit up the whole coast.

"I think I was lucky to get under the lip of that one," said Darryl 'Boogs' Vandepolder of this Shark Island gaper.

The waves at Pipe yesterday were a raw 12 foot plus but the organisers of the Volcom Pipe Pro called another Lei Day.

The Hawaiian pro season has been and gone, Christmas has passed, and the calendar has rolled over to 2013, and yet still Pipe is breaking.

Two weeks ago a deep red smudge appeared on forecast charts of the Western Pacific.

You may recognise John Barton's name, he's the photographer whose credit appears under the Pitstop Hill Mentawai photos we run throughout the winter.

It's mid-January, which makes it the middle of summer and the time of year when surfers think of boardshorts and warm weather.

The Swellnet team recently took a trip west of Adelaide, in part to celebrate the new Daly Head National Surfing Reserve (keep an eye out for a coming articl

December was been a good month here in Pohnpei.

As his home state of Victoria bakes in a heatwave Skeeta Derham suits up in a 5/4 steamer to hit the Spanish winter.

While the crowds flocked to the Sunny Coast points Ziggy Alberts saw in the New Year with a solo session on a beachie not far from home. 

On the weekend the largest swell of the year hit Australia's coastline lighting up reefbreaks from WA to Vicco.

Despite all the wrath and destruction Tropical Cyclone Evan caused in the South Pacific it had only a minimal impact on Australia's East Coast.