"I'm done bro, I'm done."

Some days are diamonds, as the saying goes, and yesterday a shining example for Kauaiian, Sebastian Zietz.

Empty peaks, wooden homesteads, and pineapple fields, Jack Dekort and Kelly Norris have been roaming the NSW North Coast with no fixed agenda.

Swimming in the Noosa line-up Swellnet photographer, Jack Dekort, captures the graceful prance of lonboarders while freezing the hyper speed of shortboarders

Day 1 of the Swatch Girls Pro China went off in, to use the commentators venacular, 'contestable waves'.

When I asked photographer Peter Blackshaw where these shots were taken he replied somewhat cagily, "South of Melbourne."

Aside from a brief one-and-a-half day burst the Sunshine Coast has been getting the raw end of the deal this Spring.

The waiting period for the Swatch Girls Pro China begins tomorrow and the competitors have begun milling on Hainan Island, site of the contest.

Not much to say about the Day 3 of the Reef Hawaiian Pro, I wasn't there and I didn't watch the webcast.

Day 2 of the Taiwan Open went off under overcast skies and between torrential downpours.

Comparisons between Lagundri Bay, Nias, and Cronulla Point are unfair, the southern Sydney pointbreak being an infinitely better wave than its northern Indon

They said the waves were coming so the organisers kept pushing the heats out, yet the anticipated swell came too late.

On Sunday night 60 Minutes ran a feature titled 'The GoPro Re

"The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words."- Elliott Erwitt

It's November, the time of year when competitive surfing gets back on solids.

"To realise one's destiny is a person's only obligation." - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist.

"This time of the year all the sunny coast surfers begin to question their sanity!

QF Results: Taj beat Gabs Bloody Travis Logie beat Parko JFlo beat The Spartan Wilko beat Adriano

Even away from the marquee breaks like Restaurants and Cloudbreak Fiji is a worthwhile trip.