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Phil Read, Mitch Loan, and Mitch Taylor get nocturnal in Perth. 

Avalon's Karl Attkins and Ulladulla's Paul Morgan in sequence during Monday's bombing Cloudbreak swell.

Rasta and Paul Morgan are the standouts during yesterday's epic Cloudbreak session. Check the gallery by Tim Bonython.

"I know he’s happy for me just like I would be happy for him if he was the winner.”

The Mentawai Islands continued its impressive run of swell through August, as this season has been one of the most incredible ones ever.

Well, late morning actually. But in any case it's been a sterling season of waves for metropolitan surfers in the Golden State.

Today was the zig that followed yesterday's zag. After a day at Telescopes we hit the boats and headed south to HTs.

Today we took Miki Dora's sage advice and "zigged when the others zagged."

August was another amazing month to be scouring the Maldivian reef passes for perfect empty line ups.

Despite the conditions Occ had his best day surfing so I've devoted most of these shots to him.

How quickly you swing into island life. It's only the second day of the Surf with Occy trip and already the sessions are blurring into one another.

So this was the first day at Aloita Resort. Grinding pipes at Suicides, the closest wave of consequence, six foot high and two foot deep.

Victorian photographer Kristian Laemmle-Ruff recently hitchhiked his way from Perth to Carnarvon, before continuing his trek further north to Red B

More gold from the best season in years.

The waves are coming out of the sky in Tahiti today, but before the swell reached French Polynesia it sideswiped New Zealand's East Coast.

I'm gonna let y'all in on a little secret about Tim Bonython...

This year the Perth beachies have outdone themselves. They've regularly served up solid sessions and Mike Maxted has been Johnny-on-the-spot to document it.

Like a reaper on the rocks, Benny Serrano stood atop the Deadmans cliff this morning. Hooded and grim with violin pressed to his neck he played a soft lament.

Spud Salazar gets cannonballed out of a Cape Solander beast.