For as long as there have been surf spots, there have been people trying to turn them into marinas, breakwalls, jetties, boat ramps, pulp mills, etc etc. Here are a few sites devoted to threatened surf spots such as Kirra, Bastion point in Victoria, Ollies at Pt Kembla and New Zealand’s Whangamata.
Over the last 12 [...]

If there’s one category of editor’s choice links I’m highly likely to revisit, it’ll be surfing photographers. So let’s kick off with a round up that includes David Pu’u, wozthatyou, aquabumps, waveriders gallery, Sean Davey, Hugh Davis and Andrew Shield.
We surfers have an insatiable appetite for pictures of waves, and more than that, for picture [...]

I decided my latest editor’s picks should be on a theme… and that theme is design. (sites checked out include: swaylocks.com, Phoresia.org (sustainable design); How to build a surfboard; shaping; collection of board building links)

We’ll kick off with Swaylocks.com’s General discussion Forum which the blub describes thusly: ‘Questions & answers, thoughts & theories on all [...]

Had a quick troll around the swellnet and coastalwatch cams just now. Swellnet’s Manly cam
offers a much clearer view than CW’s raindrop besmirched but beach level angles, and they need to send out the lens wiper to their Palmy cam as well. On the other hand, CW’s Maroubra cam is drop free, even if [...]

Avalon looks small and fairly junky but okay considering on the Coastalwatch cam.

But CW’s Mona Vale cam shows conditions looking a bit nicer (at around 0720 anyway.
Looked small, but pretty smooth and fun down at Wanda on Coastalwatch.
Swellnet’s highlight cam is up at Newcastle this morning. I see why they’ve picked it, but it’s not [...]