Great news for fishos, not so for Sunny Coast surfers.

The Wozzle pitch tent one ocean basin east, in the bath-warm waters of El Salvador at a rocky righthand point known as Punta Roca.

The injury-prone two-time champ will likely miss the next two CT events.

Some close, others not even, yet all of them ending the same way.

What is exciting is the scope, longevity, and persistence of a large Southern Ocean gyre, generating a prolonged large southerly episode.