Karate kids kick the year off with vitamin SEA
You get more than just your average martial arts class with Karate Community.
The new year started off with a healthy dose of vitamin...
Finally the Eddie did go
Everyone in Hawaii knows that Eddie would go.
It’s not just that it’s been the most popular bumper sticker in the Islands for more than...
Noosa girls bend it like Beckham
After returning home from the trip of a lifetime, Noosa athletes Chloe Murray and Rosalie Harris are set to continue kicking goals until they...
Kareena joins Noosa coaching team
Kareena Clark (formerly Lee) has joined the Noosa Aquatic Centre coaching team after recently retiring from competitive swimming.
Kareena’s swimming career is extensive...
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...


















