The Bells Beach Community Visioning Taskforce is halfway through an extensive online consultation forum and anyone interested in the reserve’s future is encouraged to get involved. 

Before the internet, surf forecasting was a rudimentary art consisting of equal parts science, intuition, and sheer pot luck. Swells would often appear from no apparent source,

Now we can predict those 'mysto' swells, and there's one coming later this weekend.

Last Sunday Max Zappas perched himself on the rocks as a small crew threw themselves over one of the most formidable ledges on the NSW South Coast. Surfers include Dean Bowen, Karl Attkins, Russell Bierke and Kipp Caddy.

Conditions were almost perfect at Cape Solander during last Sunday's cyclone swell. Almost. The swell had a touch too much north and the low tide didn't arrive until later in the day. Dom Wills had one of the more acrobatic dismounts getting pommelhorsed out of a gaping barrel onto the face.

A bout of surf culture overload leads to a conversation with someone who's giving up surfing for the year. Are such drastic measures needed when it's time to hit the refresh button?

At the same time our East Coast was copping beautiful long-lined cyclone swell, the US West Coast was hit by a large, unruly north-west swell. A small group of locals paddled Mavericks under grey skies and north winds.