- saturdays leftovers / daily / June 3, 2013 / tom
I shot photos all day long on Saturday, but all the A-grade ones have to stay under wraps for now... they are part of an upcoming project that will hopefully see the light of day in a few ...
- clean overcast 30th may / daily / May 30, 2013 / tom
Well that rich morning light I predicted yesterday didn't come to pass, just more dull overcast conditions to shoot in. The surface conditions however were really nice with just a light offshore on it all morning long. Swell ...
- at its best 21st may / daily / May 21, 2013 / tom
This morning is pretty much the Coffs Coast at its finest. It started with a blazing sunrise.. one that would stop anyone in their tracks...and then there was the surf!.... pumping barrels with light offshore winds, a south-east ...
- last light 14th may / daily / May 15, 2013 / tom
Yesterdays overcast skies held tight right up until the last half hour of light. I put off picking up the camera for the whole day, but when that dusk light started to shimmer across the ocean I quickly ...
- weekend tunnels / daily / May 6, 2013 / tom
I don't normally shoot a whole lot of surfing over the weekends, but Saturday morning was just begging to be recorded. A crisp offshore breeze at first light was grooming a fun-sized south-east swell, the water was insanely ...
- dusk sessions / daily / May 2, 2013 / tom
I could see that southerly change and cloud starting to move in on the weather maps last night, so I did a quick bolt down the beach with my water housing last night to catch the last half ...
- junior expression session 26th april / daily / April 26, 2013 / tom
The Coffs boardriders put on a little "expression session" this morning for the juniors. They got Arnad Hajdic to do some filming so when they went back to Water Cafe for breakfast they could all watch themselves on ...
- the family guys 23rd april / daily / April 23, 2013 / tom
I spent a very enjoyable morning with Cameron Lindsay, Lee Winkler and their grommies Rino and Hunter. Both Lee and Camo are top notch Coffs surfers and they have now sprouted two champion little blokes who are well ...
- frothing grommets 21st april / daily / April 21, 2013 / tom
Dozens of frothing grommets converged at Woopi main beach today to compete in the Junior boardriders 2nd event of the season. This year Darryn from Solitary Islands Surf school has organised stand-alone events for Under 14,s, ...
- passionfish / daily / April 8, 2013 / tom
We spent the weekend just south of Port Macquarie with some old friends Eric and Monica Robinson who used to be Emerald Beach people (around 9 years ago) Eric grew up surfing all the waves north of Coffs ...
- sunshine logging 3rd april / daily / April 3, 2013 / tom
If you have a single fin log in your quiver, strap it on ya roof right now and head to the beach. Perfect clear water, sunny skies and clean peelers will greet you in the southern corners. If ...
- blue n gold 2nd april / daily / April 2, 2013 / tom
Back on the trigger early today after a very salty Easter break, hope your long weekend was just as good. Started my shoot at the crack of dawn (not that early at the moment.. bout 7am) when the ...
- 2 in a row 28th march / daily / March 28, 2013 / tom
Yeah yeah I know Johnny was on yesterdays homepage doing an air, but I couldn't pass up this one for todays "hero slot". He nailed this air reverse right infront of me, rode straight out and into a ...
- stunner day 22nd march / daily / March 22, 2013 / tom
Stunner morning on the Coffs coast today. Finally it looks like we will have a full blue-sky day ahead and with temps rising back up toward the 30 degree mark for the next week it will land us ...
- small range 20th march / daily / March 20, 2013 / tom
It's been a while since the waves have registered in the "small range" but it looking like heading into that territory from today onwards. Only waist to shoulder high waves at a beach that normally gathers a fair ...
- sunday mail / daily / February 17, 2013 / tom
Sunday mid morning and the sun is blaring, the winds are cross-offshore, there's a surprise kick in swell against all predictions and the water temperature is lush. Not bad considering there was supposed to be rain, onshore winds ...
- a few frames from January / daily featured / February 14, 2013 / tom
January 2013 was a famine or a feast on the Coffs coast. We either had tiny logging style waves on the beachies or there was an enormous east swells that maxed out everywhere except inside the harbour.... It ...
- monday joy 11th february / daily / February 11, 2013 / tom
What a perfect beach morning that was hey??? I couldn't drag myself away from the briny till after the lunch bell had rung today. Sublime sunshine and water that was as warm as a tropical oasis... give me ...
- standard coffs 5th february / daily / February 5, 2013 / tom
Back to regular type waves on the Coffs coast today. This is the sort of stuff we get most of the time... 2-3 foot waves, clean in the mornings, seabreeze afternoons, fun surf on the beachbreaks. It's not ...
- mini grinders 31st january / daily / January 31, 2013 / tom
The safest place to launch a boat in Coffs Harbour was last night spitting out some sand dredging barrels. This big east swell is useless for pretty much all the beaches in our area, but it does turn ...
- nov/dec re-cap / daily featured / January 24, 2013 / tom
Not much swell around today and I just realised I haven't done my monthly re-caps for a while... missed the November and December months, so while we are waiting for this east swell to turn up you can ...
- surprise gems 18th january / daily / January 18, 2013 / tom
A nice surprise pulse of north-east windswell muscled up for just a few hours around day-break today... not expected but well accepted by those that got up early and weren't caught off guard. It seemed to fade back ...
- hot n sticky 9th january / daily / January 9, 2013 / tom
It was hot n sticky by the time I got a chance to shoot today, so there was no way it was going to be from the land! I jumped into the briny around midday and floated around ...
- reef slab 24th december / daily / December 24, 2012 / tom
Good mate of ST surf images; Johnny Craig took us to a rarely surfed reef slab this morning. He hasn't surfed it for a few years, I've been wanting to photograph the spot for a few years and ...
- grom day 26th november / daily / November 26, 2012 / tom
Sunday was grom day for the Woolgoolga boardriders. After the 7am inspection from the headland it was decided that they would run the 14's, 16's and the super groms only... way too weak and small for the older ...
- birthday girl 7th november / daily / November 7, 2012 / tom
Went for a short drive up the coast to hang with some friends from Wooli this morning. The Shanahan's are a neat little surfing family living the beach lifestyle at a seaside town one hours drive from Coffs. ...
- Rino’s day 31st october / daily / October 31, 2012 / tom
You don't wanna be inside today folks... blazing sunshine, light winds and sooo warm. Try get yourself down to the beach today it is stunning!! There's a couple of small waves around the place too, yeah its only ...
- heat coming 19th october / daily / October 19, 2012 / tom
Really nice summery day out there at the moment, a warm north-wester was fanning some fun walls all morning on the back beaches and there were plenty of crew taking advantage. It's suppose to be a scorcher tomorrow.. ...
- back to its best 3rd october / daily / October 3, 2012 / tom
The Coffs coast is back to its brilliant best today, with the weather gods putting a stop to that wind and producing what can only be described as a perfect spring day. Three days without the north winds ...
- august frames / daily / September 18, 2012 / tom
Every 4 weeks we do a little wrap of the previous months pics, it gives me a morning off the lens, a chance to look back at what went down, a short journal (in this case the waves ...
- back in business 10th september / daily / September 10, 2012 / tom
We are back in business today with the return of some decent waves.. its been a while since we've had much over the head high mark, but yesterday and this morning has opened the door to a good ...
- back beach fun 5th september / daily / September 5, 2012 / tom
Low tide afternoons at one of our many back beaches will be a staple diet of any surfer wanting to get the most out of this Spring weather pattern that is currently happening. The long range predictions are ...
- yesterdays sunshine 30th august / daily / August 30, 2012 / tom
Well I'm glad I swam my camera out yesterday afternoon while the sun was still shinning, because this morning it's just a dull shade of grey. I saw the cloud mass sweeping over on the maps as I ...
- peak day 28th august / daily / August 28, 2012 / tom
Got a tad excited this morning! waves were actually a little bit above the waist high mark. It might be our "Peak day" for the week! Before ya race out the door don't get too excited, it's still ...
- off with the blankets 3rd july / daily / July 3, 2012 / tom
Another stunning winters morning on the Coffs coast again!! I know its a little hard to spring outta bed before 6.30, but the rewards are there for the ones that kick back the blankets and face that chilly ...
- snorkelling 23rd may / daily / May 23, 2012 / tom
If you were up and out there before sunrise today, you maybe would have got a little ride before the tide swallowed up what is left of this dying swell. The light was good the winds were perfect ...
- beach daze 21st may / daily / May 21, 2012 / tom
The weather gods were smiling on the east coast of Australia last weekend with some of the best beach conditions you could hope for. I know my entire weekend was based in the ocean or at the beach, ...
- more sunshine 3rd January / daily / January 3, 2012 / tom
The weathermen keeps telling us its going to be a wet summer, but looking back on days past and days ahead all I have seen are sunny days. For those still on holidays it was a cracking day ...
