Mis or dis information?
By Sandy Bolton Noosa MP
As with so many topics that create havoc in the inbox, it’s sometimes hard to discern whether it is ‘Chinese...
Lifeguards pushed to their limits
By Ron Lane
On Sunday afternoon at Noosas Main Beach patrol members were kept busy when big seas turned nasty following the change of tide....
Hamie’s first surfboard
By Phil Jarratt
So you’re turning six, right? What would be on a six-year-old’s wish list?
Harry Potter themed party in the park. Check. The biggest...
Highway One revisited
By Phil Jarratt
Despite its endless stretches of roadworks and inexplicable 80km/h zones where roadworks may have taken place in times since past, I do...
Easter birthday boys
By Phil Jarratt
Two of my favourite “old blokes” share a birthday in April, both of them huge influences in my life back in the...
Tearing up as Owen tears it up
By Phil Jarratt
Well, there are surf contests, and then there are surf contests that reach out and take you to a whole new emotional...
From ‘prank call’ to day of pride
By Ron Lane
It was one of those days that every life saver who works at surf carnivals, be it Nippers or seniors dreads -...
Facing the monsters
By Phil Jarratt
I’m a bit too young (no laughing please) to have caught the fabulous tent show surf movies of the late 1950s and...
Power versus flow in China
By Phil Jarratt
THE World Surf League’s Jeep World Longboard Championships, which concluded on the long-lining lefts of Riyue Bay, Hainan Island, China, last weekend,...
A swell at last
By Phil Jarratt
Everything comes to those who wait ... even those who wait for a swell in Noosa in springtime.
And so it came to...
In the hill country
By Phil Jarratt
SITTING in a tea plantation mess hall on a ridge above the high hill station of Ella, Sri Lanka, last week, sipping...
A week at Carnage Cove
By Phil Jarratt
WHEN you’re travelling, sometimes wonderful first impressions should be left at that.
Closer examination often reveals there is no gloss beneath the...