13 Year old Lennox surfer Nyxie Ryan puts surfer Sean Doherty in the hot seat for Byron Writers Festival. Sean Doherty is the author of MP Untold: The Lost Stories of an Australian Surfing Legend. He was editor of Tracks magazine from 2000–2008.… Read More »Nxyie Ryan and Sean Doherty
‘Double Barrel’ is one chapter of a global story. In places like Bali, Fiji, South Africa, even around our own coast, we are seeing the destructive force of development and greed. But, in just the same way, the project and the sustainable redevelopment of Lobitos… Read More »Double Barrel
All too often we inherit our life choices, sometimes they are thrust upon us or prescribed to us by society and family, sometimes we follow the dogma of education. To pursue those choices and passions of our own volition is a rare gift, but when… Read More »WARWICK GOW: THREE WISHES
It’s no coincidence that Cleethorpes is right down the road from a town called Grimsby. Half way up England’s East Coast, on the shores of the icy, foreboding North Sea, it’s not exactly a tropical ocean paradise. So it’s little wonder that surf-bug-bitten photographer, Tom… Read More »EXTERNAL PERSPECTIVES: TOM MARTIN
It’s no coincidence that Cleethorpes is right down the road from a town called Grimsby. Half way up England’s East Coast, on the shores of the icy, foreboding North Sea, it’s not exactly a tropical ocean paradise. So it’s little wonder that surf-bug-bitten photographer, Tom… Read More »EXTERNAL PERSPECTIVES: TOM MARTIN
I, like so many others in this area, even in this country, got bitten by the surfing bug, and that little sucker has left teeth marks that will scar for life. I’ve surfed up and down the Coast, on shortboards and longboards, in winter and… Read More »PLANE TO SEA
Spring has arrived and the Byron Bay Surf Festival, beginning October 24th, is budding with exciting new announcements. With a traditional opening ceremony by the Arakwal Bundjalung people followed by a free outdoor screening/Australian premiere of the Beyond the Surface film and raging launch party by NZ blues rock band Bonjah at the Beach… Read More »Getting Close – Byron Bay Surf Festival
Back in 1971, Rusty Miller and Steve Cooney came to Uluwatu. Not a single surfer had seen the break before them and barely a westerner had gazed upon that majestic, if foreboding, stretch of craggy coastline. Within a year, surfers across Australia were adding the… Read More »HIDDEN VALLEY: FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE LUXURIOUS
When we think of the Gold Coast, the first things that spring to mind are the über-commercialism, meter maids in their gaudy gold bikinis, casinos, strip clubs and a superficial world that is hard to connect with. But that was then – this is now.… Read More »BLEACH: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GOLD COAST
Three weeks have now passed since I left my home. My destination was a place largely unknown, but not for me, as the island of the Sleeping Lady has always been a big part of me. This is my third trip to Kosrae, but it… Read More »UNDER HER GAZE: MATT SHEPHERD
