Under storm clouds and between rain squalls Rob Woodward captured this session at an urban rock ledge close to Australia's largest city.

Flooding rains recently ended a decade-long drought in western NSW. The same rains also ended a wave drought at this rare novelty break.

He draws, he skates, he punts high and plenty...it's Creed McTaggart from Margaret River.

Here are six quick shots of the young West Australian.

Shipstern's might get all the limelight down Tassie way but when the big sou-west swells enter Storm Bay there are plenty of other waves to ride.

Most of the time it sits there dormant. Invisible. You wouldn't even know a reef lay down there.

Yesterday a surfer was attacked by a shark while surfing Back Beach at Streaky Bay on South Australia's West Coast.

God I cringe when I see surf stories on the news that lead out with phrases like 'Hang Ten dude' or that make references to Gidget.

When the conditions align in WA's south-west - light easterly wind, mid-size south-west swell - then surfers have an abundance of breaks to choose from.

Nothing to do with getting scraped over a reef Death by a Thousand Cuts is a form of slow torture practiced by the Chinese up until the beginning of last cen

Chris 'Swiv' Jones and Mitch Taylor make gluttons of themself in a veritable barrel fest near Perth.

You've only gotta see todays Wave of the Day to know Josiah Schmucker doesn't mind having a dig.

Joel Coleman from Saltmotion Gallery just spent a couple of weeks in the Maldives scoring great waves along the way. He timed his return home well.

Think this is the third time we've run shots of ol' Tom Swaddling on Swellnet.

Last Thursday the organisers of the Rip Curl Cup passed up an opportunity to run the comp because the waves didn't make the grade at Padang Padang.

Start counting: Four surfers out - Cam Lamperd, Ben Collier and two other lads - five waves to a set, each wave splitting two ways, for four straight hours.

Here's cheers to Dave Otto for going bush and capturing these images of Shippies earlier this week.

It started off slow down at Shippies on Monday: undersized, inconsistent, the swell appeared too west.

How quickly the tides of fortune change.