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The Long Wave Trough has a lot to answer for. Just as Victoria had an incredible run of swell a few weeks back, so is Tahiti currently enjoying a similar deluge.

A week of great waves finally came to an end.

Tim Bonython shoots the first significant swell of the Teahupoo season.

Mexican photographer Ave Centellas Gamboa took to the skies as Playa Zicatela was getting blasted by the biggest swell in years.

Been a fine start to the surf season down south coast way. NSW south coast, that is.

Coming to you from the state where the waves are big, water's cold, and beards are bushy.

Wasn't just the pros scoring down south in WA last week. With succesive long period swells striking headlong into easterly offshores the Cape to Cape coast was wide open. 

'Twas another incredible day at The Box. Each heat was well balanced with an equal number of barrels and beatings which made for great viewing.

Russell Bierke had a brand new 10 foot dark orange gun ready to take out. The swell was thick, hard, and growing.

Round 1 commenced in unruly waves at The Box where a "twos or tens" performance unfolded. Surfers either scored real high or real low - they got a barrel or a beating - there was no middle ground.

Strengthening onshore winds built an impressive short range swell across the Torquay coast on Thursday.

AC/DC's Hell's Bells rang out over a mild morning with clean 3 foot sets running down Rincon reef for the first day of the Rip Curl Pro. 

It was a slow old day at Shippies yesterday but when the sets hit Shippies did what Shippies does - throw as wide as it is tall.

If you're like me the first thought that ran through your head after looking at the first shot of Gabriel Medina is 'did he land it?'

A mid-range swell, all day offshores, and scalloped banks: all the ingredients for beachbreak bliss. 

With a season like the Maldives had in 2014 the 'best of' photos had to be shown in instalments.

"I'd be happy if 2015 delivered half the waves we had in 2014."

Matt Dunbar tinkers with shutter speed injecting movement - or at least the illusion of movement - into standard still life photos.

Mikey Wright makes deft use of a headwind to boost a low orbit air reverse.

A midsummer knight's dream.