I heart WOTD

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Blowin started the topic in Wednesday, 30 Jul 2014 at 8:07am

The wave of the day does it for me big time. Nice work Steen Barnes , Shaun Anderson and Swellnet.
In one photo you've encompassed everything nice about surfing. If I was a wanker I'd say that it was perfect except for the fact he is in a wetsuit. Which it is , it's perfect .....except for the fact he's in a wetsuit.

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lostdoggy Wednesday, 6 Mar 2024 at 7:06pm

I was also joking, opti.

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Jelly Flater Wednesday, 6 Mar 2024 at 7:09pm

Haha oarthumbbbb ;)

- thing is tho, brutus looks pretty much alive

If he was ummm 'in the presence of Jesus' that might be a different story
- and we all love a good story ;);)

(haha just joking too)

- but still, v nice wotd

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southernraw Thursday, 7 Mar 2024 at 8:02am

Unreal shot from Fiji. Guessing this is over the last day or so from the big South you guys had over East?

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southernraw Thursday, 7 Mar 2024 at 8:02am

Unreal shot from Fiji. Guessing this is over the last day or so from the big South you guys had over East?

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shoredump Thursday, 7 Mar 2024 at 9:16am

Yeah SR. Tim arrived in Sydney from Portugal on Monday and was on the first flight out Tuesday. Today is the big day, so guessing that’d be from yesterday arvo’s session

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stunet Thursday, 7 Mar 2024 at 10:23am

Yep, spot on. Warm up sesh for today's onslaught.

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stunet Thursday, 7 Mar 2024 at 10:26am

This morning. Jai Glindeman on a double-barrel beast:

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southernraw Thursday, 7 Mar 2024 at 2:17pm

Ohhhhh man that was insane!! Hows the drone angle. Fark that looks more fun than what im doing right now.
Cheers Stu!

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southernraw Thursday, 7 Mar 2024 at 7:19pm

Hollleeeeyyyyy shiiiiit!!

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blackers Friday, 8 Mar 2024 at 6:53am

Committed..

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southernraw Friday, 8 Mar 2024 at 7:41am

Billy Kemper, insane airdrop to oblivion.
Wow!

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Patrick Friday, 8 Mar 2024 at 10:37am

Amazing is there any video footage of it?

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Jono Friday, 8 Mar 2024 at 11:18am
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Amazing is there any video footage of it?

Tim should have that exact angle in a coming video edit

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udo Friday, 8 Mar 2024 at 11:21am
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Patrick Friday, 8 Mar 2024 at 12:33pm

Wow, good thing the board didn't damage him. Scary.

Thanks udo. I don't have insta so not everything shows up for me in searches. Cheers.

Ok, thanks Jono.

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Supafreak Friday, 8 Mar 2024 at 5:52pm

Another angle of Soli Bailey’s wave

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simba Saturday, 9 Mar 2024 at 6:03am

Billy Kempers wotd shot has to be up there in the all time best photos ever imo......and he survived and kept surfing......wow

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blackers Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 7:33am

Beautiful shot today. A nice study of curves.

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Solitude Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 8:26am

OK that is a magical shot. Well done. Thanks for sharing

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Craig Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 8:37am

Pristine and so dreamy.

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Sprout Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 8:58am

Beautiful picture, terrible quality, looks like a blown out GoPro still. If that's a video cap I'd love to see it.

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Craig Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 9:00am

It was taken on a phone, we thought the story it told overwrote the quality. I bet he wish it was taken on a proper camera.

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GuySmiley Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 9:04am

Love it

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andy-mac Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 9:06am

That looks a lot nicer than the confused mess out front this morning!

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Sprout Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 9:32am

Thanks Craig, spewing thought there may be a drone flyover for me to drool at, I'll dream over the pic instead. Haven't seen conditions like that in far too long, beautiful!

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burleigh Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 9:37am

yeah the photo quality ain't great, but the entire image really is stunning. the dunes are pretty much untouched (no foot marks) & one guy out and a fun peak. That's what surf dreams are made of.

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goofyfoot Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 9:43am

Yeah it really makes you take a second look at it. Beautiful scenes

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harrycoopr Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 10:30am
burleigh wrote:

yeah the photo quality ain't great, but the entire image really is stunning. the dunes are pretty much untouched (no foot marks) & one guy out and a fun peak. That's what surf dreams are made of.

Get some glasses burley... no footprints lol

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burleigh Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 11:10am
harrycoopr wrote:
burleigh wrote:

yeah the photo quality ain't great, but the entire image really is stunning. the dunes are pretty much untouched (no foot marks) & one guy out and a fun peak. That's what surf dreams are made of.

Get some glasses burley... no footprints lol

Oh winny, there are none heading towards the ocean.

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AndyM Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 11:34am

I like how this shot really strikes a chord with so many of us, clearly it's a beautiful photo.
And it feels unusual these days to have mobile dunes like that around this part of the world, unless you go to Moreton or Fraser or somewhere that hasn't been mined and "rehabiltated".

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Slackjawedyokel Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 2:46pm

AndyM…..unless I’m mistaken those are the white granite sands of Southern Australia. I’d say somewhere West of the Bight, East of Esperance ? Maybe an offshore Southern island at a pinch ? Not chasing a location name in particular.

But the break looks like an East coast beachie?

Love a mystery. Particularly when it remains a mystery*.

*To everyone else

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AlfredWallace Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 7:06pm
Slackjawedyokel wrote:

AndyM…..unless I’m mistaken those are the white granite sands of Southern Australia. I’d say somewhere West of the Bight, East of Esperance ? Maybe an offshore Southern island at a pinch ? Not chasing a location name in particular.

But the break looks like an East coast beachie?

Love a mystery. Particularly when it remains a mystery*.

*To everyone else

You didn’t just Google Justin Edwards Surf Photos and see his shots from SW WA maybe?

You do realise SE Australia southern coastline has many areas with Devonian granite and beaches with fine white sand on the mainland and many of the Bass Strait islands.

Have you heard of the stepping stone type effect of granite islands joining Wilson’s Promontory to Tassie, just sayin. AW

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Slackjawedyokel Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 7:21pm

Just a guess there fella. No need to get your nana knickers in a twist. I didn’t google someone to get fake knowledge to impress the likes of yourself.

I’ve driven across the bottom of Oz return probably a dozen or more times. Surfed / fished/ camped all the way. Lived at Esperance , Denmark, Augusta. Suggested it might be one of those offshore southern islands.

I could still be very wrong. Just speculating. But that fine white powder sand looks telling.

Still looks like an East coast sunrise with an East coast shaped wave.

Looks fun enough.

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AlfredWallace Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 7:34pm
Slackjawedyokel wrote:

Just a guess there fella. No need to get your nana knickers in a twist. I didn’t google someone to get fake knowledge to impress the likes of yourself.

I’ve driven across the bottom of Oz return probably a dozen or more times. Surfed / fished/ camped all the way. Lived at Esperance , Denmark, Augusta. Suggested it might be one of those offshore southern islands.

I could still be very wrong. Just speculating. But that fine white powder sand looks telling.

I’ve never got me knickers in a knot, baggy white fronts for me.

They are the fine white sands of SW Oz derived from granite and gneiss and basically presented in current form as squeaky clean white quartz -silicon dioxide (SiO2)
One can only imagine the weathering process for this oxide to be removed from its original parent rock material.

Fitzgerald River National Park and around East Mt,Barren has Kwongan Flora growing purely in this sand.
Nutrients come from the invisible organic coating around the surface of every grain of sand,
Proteaceous plants ( Banksias, Hakeas etc) have over millions of years evolved specialised roots (Proteoid) to breakdown the organic matter into a useable form
Biological world always finds a way.

Hope ya keeping well hidden inside those barrels. AW

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Roadkill Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 7:45pm

just amazing. One of the best wotd shot’s I’ve seen…imo. It is very beautiful.

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frog Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 8:20pm

Surfing offers more beautiful moments than any other sport.

Some subtle, some sort of precious and jewel like, some moody, some powerful, some awe inspiring.

Today's is subtle and a multi faceted jewel to admire.

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freeride76 Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 8:30pm

It's just so inviting.

You can hear the squeak of that white quartz sand underfoot, feel that warm water and imagine backdooring that peak.

It's exactly where you want to be, a complete magic moment.

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basesix Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 9:22pm

perfect everything, plus the long shadows make you feel a relief, not blazing midday hot - well done finding undisturbed sand for the shot.

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AndyM Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 10:33pm

AW - “ You didn’t just Google Justin Edwards Surf Photos ”

Of course I thought about it, but I figured in this case, the dream was worth more than the fact.
I preferred the (most likely erroneous) fantasy of south-east Queensland offshore island winter perfection.

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AlfredWallace Tuesday, 12 Mar 2024 at 7:30am
frog wrote:

Surfing offers more beautiful moments than any other sport.

Some subtle, some sort of precious and jewel like, some moody, some powerful, some awe inspiring.

Today's is subtle and a multi faceted jewel to admire.

Frog. Very sage words, nice.AW

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GuySmiley Wednesday, 13 Mar 2024 at 10:25pm

Move over royal family photoshop scandal I think today’s features a disconnect between the wave and menacing background in tone/light!

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southernraw Wednesday, 13 Mar 2024 at 10:34pm

Nah checks out ok with me G.S. Late arvo Kirra light gets that brilliant reflection, late summer so sun fairly West by SW, probably straight above Kirra Hotel,(assuming this is just past big groyne) maybe 3-4pmish. Great pic.
Geez, Slabb by name, slab by nature.

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lostdoggy Thursday, 14 Mar 2024 at 10:27pm

Different foam ball same outcome.

I’d go with the caption -“departing platform 9 3/4 on the Kirra express”

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southernraw Thursday, 14 Mar 2024 at 10:41pm

Phwoar. Damn good effort to get down and into that thing....then....vaporized!!

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andy-mac Monday, 18 Mar 2024 at 9:19am

Love that pic!!
Want to hit the road...

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GuySmiley Monday, 18 Mar 2024 at 5:05pm
andy-mac wrote:

Love that pic!!
Want to hit the road...

The GOR Andy, god's own local!

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goofyfoot Tuesday, 19 Mar 2024 at 8:12am

Amazing wave

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southernraw Tuesday, 19 Mar 2024 at 5:22pm

That's insane. As good a Kirra water pic as i've seen.

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Sprout Wednesday, 20 Mar 2024 at 8:16am

Beautiful! Brings a tear to the eye. Hasn't looked like that here in years. RIP clean, offshore winters.

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GuySmiley Wednesday, 20 Mar 2024 at 8:51am

Today’s: The Catcher In The Rye