We're heading down-under for Xmas. Decided the 'vacation' shirt needs an airing, so we're off to Sydney for the rest of Dec...

Boom! If you like; the sounds of UNKLE, the visuals of Spike Jonze & Ty Evans, the simple beauty of a phat ollie and pyromania in genera...

Surf check anyone? The Pole House in Fairhaven by architect and engineer Frank Dixon is an iconic landmark on the Victorian coast and is now...

Until the colour of a man's skin Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes Me say war Lyrics from the song War by Bob Marle...

The song remains the same - R in a timeless moment It's easy to believe that everything about surfing has changed beyond all recognition...

Touch me I'm sick Actually I feel a lot better today, but this tune came to mind in my delirious state yesterday. The first single from ...

It takes every kind of people, to make what life's about. Every kind of people, to make the world go 'round... Reminds me of the loc...

Decided to spend a night on the tiles

Going for a surf in the summer is a lot simpler...

Be lucky Hope you have a good weekend.

I just can't stop myself from using this font – BLACKOUT – at the moment. Here's a nifty little bin we bought for our kitchen compo...

Looking up, down and all around NSW It's with great pleasure that I welcome a fellow blogger from downunder lookingupdownallaround (he...

I would really, really love to go to Hawaii, surely it's every surfers default duty to at least think about making the pilgrimage. I...

Our friend Jenny enjoying one of the recent clean days we had down here. Until this guy decided he wanted the same wave. Than...

céad míle fáilte

I wish... ... I could fly. Then I could see more views of the big blue like this

8.6 Diamond Tail, wide, low rockered glider. The first law of new-board-stokage states that the surf will be shite for the first weekend aft...

Hi G oo d to m ee t yo u, th an k s fo r d ro pp i ng b y. H op e to s ee y ou ag ai n s oo n.

One of the most stylish surfers ever, produced a simple yet profound book. Gerry Lopez is a genuine legend, yet with this book he also reve...

Fort Point under the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco The first in an occasional series of fantasy surf destinations around the globe where...

Cealan, aged 9

It's the last Friday before the clocks go back - one more chance for an end-of-the-working-week tipple at my favourite venue with a suns...

Three blockheads I never use smileys or do winks etc with brackets and semi-colons in email, but maybe I'll start doing these little por...

Just a dream I had last night...

Porthtowan, 17th October Last Saturday delivered a small, sweet swell. Hardly a breath of wind, long lulls and occasional 2ft sets under sun...

I really like surfing and I really like reading - and you can't start doing either too early...

"going in?" "yeah, see you out there..." "getting out?" "yeah, I'll catch one in..." I love ambi...

Rodga Harvey, tailblock edger in 1978 Had a brief but fun sk8 sesh with Rodga Harvey on Saturday, he's been ripping for three decades, t...

"This one starts a bit quietly" John Peel will be celebrated in various ways at various places at various times this weekend - sur...

"Great view from up here" We don't have a cat on a hot tin roof in this part of the world - we have a couple of collies near t...

Bring back stickers! When I used to spend all my time skateboarding, stickers were a small but fun part of the whole scene. Everybody had ...

The shape of things to come Something's cooking in Jolly Roger's shack…

Kool Kar My bro-in-law stopped by for a visit this weekend on his way back to Ireland with his new wheels, a 1965 Volvo Amazon. What a...

Looking south from Porthtowan to St Ives with Godrevy lighthouse on the horizon. Clicky piccy to go large…

The Generation gap In 1991 Douglas Coupland wrote Generation X and captured the zeitgeist perfectly, and now 18 years later he delivers Ge...

Killer! Went for a run this evening - it nearly killed me. ps: note to self - don't run with mouth open. I inhaled a small cloud of midg...

Now that's what I call a Roundhouse Cutback Sequence of Mick Fanning clearly demonstrating a full-bore frontside roundhouse cutback, I r...

Get your line ups sorted... As the September swells start to roll through and Autumn brings more motion to the ocean remember to triangulate...

Never heard of 'em, but I think I'd like this album Old record covers are great - there's a wealth of visual gold out there. 195...