The Pacific comes alight
Just as our pleasant if hectic Christmas/New Year run of easterly swell started to wane, the northern hemisphere suddenly went nuts.
There are many legendary...
Old age shall not weary us!
Motoring through his 72nd year on the planet, for your columnist surfing has become both a pleasure and a pain.
Every surf hurts, but as...
Old Phil’s 2023 Almanac
JANUARY
Record crowds swarm the Hastings Street Precinct for the first “Covid Free” summer holiday since 2019-20, creating havoc on the roads, rage in the...
Keep our Film Archive alive
Jolyon Hoff’s ambitious and immensely worthy Surf Film Archive project is entering its third year of finding, scanning and restoring Australia and New Zealand's...
Big year coming up for Coco
Right now you could be forgiven for thinking that Noosa’s fastest rising surf star, just finishing a stellar year in which she became the...
Meet Sade Ferguson, champion water skier
The Noosa community has plenty of sports stars to look out for, and world champion waterskier Sade Fergusson, 19, is certainly one of them....
A messy Masters at the Pipe
To be honest I didn’t take a whole lot of notice of the Vans Pipe Masters, what with eight straight lay days, weird weather...
Golf and whisky mix at Springs
What began more than 20 years ago with a few golfers playing 18 holes for a bottle of Scotch whisky has turned into one...
Noosa locals run sold-out Brazilian Jujitsu event
The Tough Roll GP 2022 Brazilian Jujitsu event was held at Noosa Peppers Resort last weekend in a sold out event organised by Noosa...
Warm times at chilly Pismo
There were tears of joy and probably a few of disappointment as the ISA World Para Surfing Championships went through a changing of the...
Easy as ABC for former star footballer
RODNEY Robran, a member of one of Adelaide’s most famous AFL families, never quite brought the talent he displayed on the football field to...
Dream comes true for Sophie
In surfing it doesn’t get much closer than the margin by which Sunny Coaster Sophie McCulloch qualified for the 2023 World Championship Tour last...
Twins on tour in the Middle East
Twin brothers posted to opposite ends of Australia were reunited at the opposite end of the world on deployment in the Middle East.
The beaches...
