16 Jul 10
Gauranga

Wake up late. Walk into lounge. Alex in front of computer........facebooking. He looks up, "I checked it early very windy and overcast 2 foot slop." More...
02 Jul 10
Jack Frost

Wednesday (coldest day in Sydney for a million years.) morning: Jack Frost was definitely at the door last night and in full effect this morning. More...
18 Jun 10
Addiction

A week, geez that was a long trip. Winter, gotta love it. Swell after swell pounding the east coast in a southerly formation, banks are formed - banks are worn. More...
04 Jun 10
Relentless

Will this rain ever stop? Sometimes it's a good thing. The surf glasses off and people can't check it without getting out of their cars, which keeps the crowd numbers super low. More...
27 May 10
Bali Bintang

With relentless rains and temperatures dropping dramatically, there will never be a better time to book your trip to Bali. Do it. More...
18 May 10
Light Show

Well that was fun. Offshore winds and solid swell for a couple of days. You ripper! Last week was sweet. More...
29 Apr 10
Yesterday

"Should have been here yesterday." That old chestnut. People pull it out all the time, usually making you feel angry with them for saying it and your boss for making you go to work. More...
16 Apr 10
Yeeeeew

How fun have the waves been! Autumn shows up, the winds swing round to the west, the waves grow and summer slop is gone and forgotton. More...
30 Mar 10
Rise. Snap. Float.

Not the pumping start to Autumn that we got last year, but still nothing to complain about. More...
17 Mar 10
Boosta Rhymes

What a crazy couple of weeks it's been,
some of the best images my camera has seen. More...
10 Mar 10
Quikky Pro

Made a last minute decision to jump on a plane and head up to the Gold Coast for the Quikky Pro last Wednesday. More...
26 Feb 10
Blue Schralper

A week of waves for us Northern Beachians. Got to love it when that happens. Bit of onshore, that has to be expected More...
19 Feb 10
Swell, Storms and Surftag

A fun week just passed with a lot happening on the Northern Beaches. There were waves all over the place, solid crowds and heaps and heaps of rain. More...
11 Feb 10
Sharks. Blueys. Waves

This morning local Northern Beaches surfer Paul Welsh was bitten by a shark while teaching his grom to surf at Mona Vale. Paul was driven to the hospital for treatment and is all good. More...
03 Feb 10
Porridge

Well at last there are some waves around and with them a few words come to mind: slop, mush, onshore, lumpy and messy. More...
20 Jan 10
Surf drought over

At last the great summer wave drought is over for Sydney. About time. Hope you got out there over the past few days and got your fix people. More...
12 Jan 10
Summer Surf Sucks

How much more can we take? The surf situation on the Northern Beaches is dire. Everyone is over the slop Huey, please send us some love. More...
29 Dec 09
Bluesnapper's Sack

It's that hectic time of the year again. Christmas, family, presents, parties, flat surf, shopping and late bluesnapper email updates. More...
08 Dec 09
Vast contrast

It's amazing sometimes how much the surf and weather changes over the course of one day. We can spend a day on long 9 footers, catching clean 1 footers in the sun. More...
27 Nov 09
Another Jack

Another fun week of waves. Small ones as per usual, but with warm weather and girls on the beach, who's complaining. More...
20 Nov 09
Boats. Storms. Pies.

A group of us overloaded into a tiny boat and headed north last Monday when the big swell hit. More...
13 Nov 09
Retro loggin rides

Busy week with the Manly Festival of Surfing going down last weekend. Heaps of people, uncooperative weather and waves, rain, sun, then rain again. More...
05 Nov 09
Rise. Drift. Cup. Set

Busy week in and around the Northern Beaches. Heat waves, small waves and one day of good waves. More...
27 Oct 09
Sloppy Joes

When a surf photographer actually surfs every day it is not the best sign. The waves have not been epic. More...
16 Oct 09
Surf 'n' Sketch

We just had a week of stormy seas and sneaky swells resulting in super fun waves. More...
09 Oct 09
Grom invasion

Highlight of the week: the mini-groms charging 6 foot bombs in the finals of BL's Blast Off. Low point: the weather. More...
01 Oct 09
Summer is near

The past week on the Northern Beaches included hoax swells, more dust, heaps of dolphins, fun waves, sloppy waves, hot days and cold days. More...
24 Sep 09
What Dust?

Yesterday was a little different wasn't it. I woke up feeling a little dusty, wondering where the smell of smoke was? It was obvious the whole of the Northern Beaches was on fire. More...
18 Sep 09
Dripping Wet

East swell, offshore winds, clean barrels, frothy barrels, dry heat, punts, punters, pro's and pro juniors. A week in the life of the Northern Beaches. Another ripper, what an epic place to live. More...
09 Sep 09
Springwater

The first week of Spring was a cracker. Warm weather and good waves. I saw plenty of Dad's on the Northern Beaches getting amongst the clean 2-3 foot waves on Fathers' Day. More...
02 Sep 09
Northern Lakes

Mark today down, it is the first day there have been waves over 2 foot in the past three weeks. I couldn't resist and had to hit the water for a surf. More...
24 Aug 09
Bintang Barrels

What a Dream! Indonesia for two weeks with my girl, surfboard, cameras and quality cheap beer everywhere you look. My experiences on the islands of Bali and Lembongan were incredible. More...
19 Aug 09
Huey delivers

After a long wait between decent waves on the Northern Beaches, Huey delivered in style. More...
12 Aug 09
Bloody Bagus

Epic waves, scorching sun, warm water, friendly locals, crazy roads, corrupt police, ice cold bintang and thieving monkeys. This is Bali. More...
29 Jul 09
Bring it back

The joke is over Huey! Please send the waves back to the Northern Beaches. More...
22 Jul 09
Flat Stanley

That was a pretty flat week wasn't it! Not the greatest conditions for the past week for us surfers. Some great warm, spring-like sunny days though. More...
14 Jul 09
East Days

Guess what? The surf has been pumping again. Fairly slow start to the past week, but it was pulsing by late Sunday afternoon. We had great waves all day on Monday, although it was quite inconsistent More...
08 Jul 09
Squid town

A solid week of waves on the Northern Beaches with all the bodyboarders and some surfers out in force pulling into heavy pits wherever they could. More...
01 Jul 09
Dolphins. Brazil. Shapes

An epic swell ended and left us scratching our heads, wondering what to do with ourselves, back to work I guess. More...
23 Jun 09
North East Stoke

The past week had a pretty average beginning. Bad weather and messy surf was the only thing we were getting on the Northern Beaches. More...
16 Jun 09
Winter Light

The days are short. The air freezes your insides. The wind blows so hard, the drumming inside your ears in unbearable. Ice cold rain hits you in the face. More...
09 Jun 09
It must be snowing

How cold is that wind! I think I am going to step it up to three coffees a day now, to help deal with it. Heating is bad for the environment, coffee is where it's at. More...
02 Jun 09
Winter chills

How cold is it! Time to pull out the old beanies, trackies and ugg boots. Coffee and Hot Chocolate consumption goes up. More...
26 May 09
Novelty prize

In the colder months, when the surf gets crazy and out of control on Sydney's Northern Beaches, what do you do? More...
19 May 09
Wave intensity

This is one of the best Autumn's Sydney has seen in quite a while, the surf has been amazing. More...
12 May 09
Autumn is Offshore

Another fun week for surfers on Sydney's Northern Beaches. Most days are at this time of year, you have got to love Autumn. More...
05 May 09
Barrels a plenty

The hype from that Anzac Day swell took a while to calm down, with amazing waves still pushing through on Monday and Tuesday last week. More...
28 Apr 09
ANZAC DAY 09 was ALL TIME

Nothing brings stoke like the stories you hear in a beach carpark the day after a massive swell hits our Sydney shores. More...
14 Apr 09
Weed monsters

Well at last it's starting to clear, the seaweed was out of control all week, every beach from Palmy to Manly was taken over. More...
07 Apr 09
Swell from all directions

The past week had it all, wind and swell from every direction! More...
31 Mar 09
Surf and sun for everyone

What a week, great way to wrap up the first month of Autumn.
There was something rideable pretty much every day, good stuff. More...
15 Mar 09
Summer 08/09

It was a strange summer, relatively normal for Sydney's standards but a ridiculous lack of swell for the most of it. More...
20 Feb 09
Roadtripping

Who doesn't love getting away? Grab some mates and head off for a few days or even better a few weeks! More...
01 Oct 08
Mona Retrospective

Mona Vale beach is smack bang in the middle of the northern beaches. It is where I live and one of the greatest places I have been in this world so far! More...





