He may not have won the Hurley Pro but in coming second Joel Parkinson assured pro surf fans that the 2012 title race will be one for the ages.

Yesterday Robert Kelly Slater racked up his 50th WCT win when he clinched the Hurley Pro at Trestles over Joel Parkinson.

Spring has been slow going on most of Australia's East Coast, particularly so from Byron Bay north.

And here we have Sydney's Tristan McCaffery exercising his dexterity by linking sections while remaining pitted in the Mentawai Islands.

Chris Lovell looks back on a bountiful trip to the NSW South Coast taken in August.

Yesterday Tai Graham won the Put Up or Shut Up tournament at Grajagan, Indonesia.

Jordy Lawler is a young surfer from Sydney's Northern Beaches who's starting to gather attention.

Just five quick snapshots from a whole session, it's not much to represent a greater tract of time.

Ziggy Alberts first appeared on our radar as a favoured subject of photographer Jack Dekort.

Here's another clean collection of photos from Rylan Blair of Perth.

Sunshine Coast photographer, Jack Dekort, left last week for his annual pilgrimage to Indonesia and he appears to have timed this trip well.

As was covered in an earlier Swellnet Session Victoria'

OK, so these photos are a week or two old which makes them near redundant in internet terms.

There's a classic, timeless quality about the Bells and Winki line ups.

The final of the Billabong Pro Tahiti was another classic showdown between the two ageing Cooly kids.