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Although the winds have been less than ideal, the Gold Coast's conveyor belt of swell is slowly shifting into action. 

Mark Healey freefalls into an Off The Wall beast before collapsing into a layback.

Yesterday the first two rounds of the Backdoor Shootout went down in what many surfers called the best Pipeline day of the season so far.

Part 2 of Craig Brokensha's look back at the year that was 2014.

Part 1 of the best of 2014 through the eyes of Swellnet Forecaster Craig Brokensha.

"I really didn’t want to focus on the contentious political issues surrounding the Australian Government's Immigration Processing Facility. Of course I could not ignore the politics, it was discussed a lot on the boat."

Straight outta the Cenny Coast glitter strip, living high on the huff of volatile organic compounds, comes this stellar collaboration: Levi Jones and Martyn Worthington.

It'd been a slow old season for Victorian surfers. Spring is never usually kind anyway but this year had been particularly grim. 

Two lucky people will walk away with a trip for two to Aloita Surf Resort and Spa in the Mentawai.

So we all know Kelly broke a few toes while surfing Cloudbreak on Monday. 

It was an epic winter for waves over Perth, and that's not just going on local standards.

With the Maldives season winding down September and early October were a mixed bag of swells.

Last Thursday the Sydney coast was on the backside of a major swell event yet the Cape was just beginning to roar.

Doesn't matter what the friendly man on the ABC says: "Cyclonic winds", "ten metre waves", "once-in-a-century storm", you can be assured someone is gonna attempt to surf it.

Amongst the carnage, the banks shaped up a fair few lengthy tube rides.

We finished out September with a few more days right off the beach here, with our own left point barrels reminding us why we stay right in front of one of the best waves in the world, to be on it whenever the conditions align.

We're in the midst of springtime transition and the North Pacific's been particularly active of late. 

While the Tassie boys partied it up in the boats, Tyler and James Hollmer-Cross along with Rudi Schwartz, Mikey Brennan and Jarrah Orphin threaded green-lipped pits into the late afternoon.

Shipsterns Bluff pumped yesterday so you get another photo gallery with 'Ship' in the title.