The Fiji Pro got underway today and the world’s best surfers took to the water in three-to-five foot surf. The event ran through Round 1 at Cloudbreak with 12 surfers earning a fast track through to Round 3 while several top seeds were relegated to surf again in elimination Round 2.

The first swell of the season hit on the weekend with wild reports filtering in. "It's the biggest and heaviest I've ever seen it," said Sean Holmes, while South Africa's Zigzag Magazine is reporting one set "feathered and closed out right across."

Stu Gibson wiggles his digits and brings us an overarching view of Cloudbreak. From 50 feet high the various sections of the wave become visible as the swell lines bend and focus.

Just a month after the controversial Western Australian shark cull ended a local company has unveiled a product that may make future culls redundant.

A video in which everyone's favourite Basque hermit - because we all know heaps of Basque hermits, right? - travels north of Namibia, deep into the Angolan desert, to experience his best surf session ever.