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"North coast, south south-east swell" to be exact...

Harry Bryant, Jackson Baker, and Joe van Dijk endure sub zero temperatures and snow to the tide line while chasing a rare Bass Strait wave.

As a Swellnet commentator recently put it, "2015 has been the year of the weekend warrior."

So much surf, so few surfers. It's all empty stages and no actors as Louis Harris trains his lonely lens at some lovely Indian Ocean tunnels.

Frantic phone calls and hurried flights pay off for Hayden O'Neill.

"We started and ended June in the same fashion: surfing a pumping, barreling right. In between this we went left. I'll let the photos do the talking on how that went."

When the year's biggest swell is forecast to hit Indonesia and perfect waves are just three hours away it's time to fire up the Honda.

Here's a swell that ticked all the boxes: lines to the horizon; favourable winds; blue skies; and best of all, at least for the weekend warriors, it peaked on Sunday.

Going surfing by plane, especially a small propeller plane. How could you ever get blase about it? The deep thrum of the props vibrating through your body, headsets on, surfboards stacked down the aisle.

Chris White hit the highway during the recent WA swell. Heading north by northwest he stopped and scored at one of Australia's best lefts.

"It simply doesn't get any better." So went the summation from Saturday at Kandui. No point in me trying to describe the surf, these photos say more than anyone ever could.

Looking forward, looking back. As the Australian big wave community prepares for a thunderous swell to hit Indo and our west and south coasts, let's look back at the last big swell to hit our shores.

"After what has been one of the slowest starts to a Mentawai season in years, the Indian Ocean finally awoke from its slumber in early June."

Pumping beachbreaks with a crowd of none.

On Thursday Cape Solander broke for the first time within the waiting period of the Red Bull Cape Fear comp.

"The early season in the Maldives was one of the best runs we'd had in a while. From March right through till early May people got what they paid for."

Teahupoo's great run of swell continues with the biggest waves in twelve months hitting the End Of The Road.

'Twas a tidy end to autumn on the Surf Coast over the weekend. The seasonal shift was punctuated by two days of 4 - 6 foot waves with the wind, what little there was, blowing straight up the face.