The winter solstice, the darkest and shortest day of the year passed yesterday, but the light continued to shine across Manly with pumping backlit barrels firing off for three days straight.

Less words. More eye candy.

Not only has Tom Wegener been called a sell out, Derek Hynd also accused him of "killing Bambi". Suitably chastened, Wegener did a PhD on an age old gripe and then turned it into a book.

Kerby Brown and co. rocking to a Swellnet soundtrack.

The first real winter storm is about to develop in the Southern Ocean, providing large surf to Australia, Fiji and New Zealand.

The factory making Europe's largest and most prestiguous board label burns.

Feel that unrelenting down the line rush.

Photos from the front line of Indo's recent swell barrage.