There's been a lot of talk this past week about wavepools on the Gold Coast.

It's Day 9 of the Teahupoo waiting period and the surf is still grim.

Following their thumping big wave session at an open ocean reef

After a slow old winter the swell activity on Victoria's Surf Coast has perked up ever so slightly in the last few weeks.

Words and photos by John Barton of Pitstop Hill Resort, Mentawai.

Sam Jones is a young surfer from Sydney's Northern Beaches. 15-years young, to be exact.

On Tuesday the second event of the Big Wave World Tour - the Billabong Pico Alto - went off in 20-25 foot waves near Lima, Peru.

"July 2012 - Four days deep into our Maldives adventure and we have already surfed five sweet little lineups.

Usually you can forget chasing waves on the Sunshine Coast during winter, it's a time to hibernate not hunt.

The sixth of August marked twenty years since Mark 'Sanga' Sainsbury passed away while surfing at Avoca Beach.

Matt Griggs is a meditation practitioner, a clean living citizen in a short-back-and-sides kinda way.

For the past few months Kerry Down's contributions to Swellnet have come from behind the camera.

For the most part it's been a slow old winter on the Surf Coast, good swells having been sporadic at best.

After a full day of pumping barrels it came down to the last two minutes of the Rip Curl Cup at Padang Padang.

Words and photos by Joel Coleman of Saltmotion Gallery.

Clear blue skies, old school lines. 

Never mind the Harold Holt, I ain't got time for rhyming slang.

This session is dedicated to all those office workers trapped a long way from the ocean, breathing recycled air, making small talk around the drink station a

Eighty kilometres off the West Australian coastline and within sight of the continental shelf lies the mysterious Turtle Dove Reef.