Yeah, they're all crowded hours on the Gold Coast breaks but the locals get their share regardless of the numbers.

OK, after reading the title you don't have to be a gumshoe to know there'll be an air or two in these photos.

Derek Hynd has his Friction Free Fun but over in the west Mike Maxted and Mitch Taylor have their own version of FFF - flash filled fun.

Actually...put yourself in the pictures.

Lightning fast and quick as a whip, that's Oney Anwar. There's only one of him but you'd swear there's more. Triplets, perhaps.

Here's a tale to warm your inner Rastovich...

With an easterly swell brewing and a westerly wind blowing Luke Daniels, Dunstan Foss and Jeremy Shanahan follow the highway south.

Jack Dekort captures the essence of an early morning surf check on the Sunshine Coast: barefoot assessments while squinting into a briliant sunrise.

If John Barton didn't make an impression in this morning's Swell

One of the most well travelled surf photographers in the country, Joel Coleman from Saltmotion Photograp

A fine, upstanding member of the community is Justin 'Jughead' Allport. Even works in the most respected of occupations - a fireman. Cat stuck up the tree?

Autumn on the Goldy is good, but it ain't overhead pointbreak pits all the time.

Photorapher Chris Dixon isn't intimidated by shallow ledges.

Following on from this morning's Session...after shooting the fuller-

When Monday's south swell hit in Sydney crew with time on their hands bolted north or south.

Call yourself The Perfect Wave Travel Company and you've set yourself a lofty goal.

Late drop...

The anguish of being a surf photographer!

Lately we've been running a hell of a lot of sessions from the Gold Coast and other congested quarters of Australia's East Coast.

It's hard to get a fresh photographic angle on the wave at Snapper, just as it's hard to come up with a fresh title for the photographic gallery it sits in.