The surfer as a fighter? In the shadow of the Summer of Love, blindboy recalls a fight on the highway with boozed up sailors hell bent on brawling.

"I made my Dad film and from that one session he recorded ten minutes of stand up barrels."

On Wednesday, Mornington Peninsula surfers received news that a large swathe of National Park at Point Nepean had been leased to a developer. The land includes the old quarantine station inside Point Nepean that lends its name to the nearby wave, Quarantines, or simply Quarras.

Kalani Champan does a couple of laps 'round the point, GoPro running as is his want.

This clip was filmed near Hossegor a couple of days ago and is just about as good as beachbreaks get.