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Australia's Top Ten Surf Beaches | Cameron Wilson | Australia, New South Wales, Sydney

As the home of iconic surf labels Quicksilver, Rip Curl and Billabong and birthplace of a long line of world surfing champions, Australia could probably be forgiven for taking itself a bit too seriously when it comes to surf culture

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Crowded House? | Alf Alderson

The world's a pretty big place, and two-thirds of it is made up of sea water, so it might seem a little strange that some people regard the oceans as being too crowded for their liking

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Ground Shaker | Alf Alderson | United States, Hawaii, Oahu

You can feel the ground shake when a big wave breaks at Pipeline, the classic wave of Old Spice ads - in fact it was the location for the original ad

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Joining the Bahamian Crazy Gang | Alf Alderson | Bahamas, North Islands, Eleuthera

In theory it's very easy to spend time doing nothing in The Bahamas - after all this is where the hammock was invented - so it should have been no problem for us to enjoy a day working hard at relaxing

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North of the Border | Alf Alderson | Canada, Nova Scotia, Halifax

You know you’re not in normal surf territory when the road sign beside the surf shop warns of ‘Blowing Snow’

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Real Surfers, Real Surfing | Alf Alderson | United Kingdom, Devon and Cornwall, Newquay

If your idea of surfing involves sitting in front of a cathode ray tube, you could do your body and soul a few favours by flicking the ‘off’ button, getting up off the sofa and heading to the coast to try the real thing instead

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Snowdonia and the Lakes: Surfing and Hiking | Alf Alderson

Needless to say, having postponed my ascent of the hills to go surfing in the sunshine, I awoke next day to find low cloud and showers scattering themselves across the mountains

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Surfing in Barbados | Granville Greene

If you thought cricket was the only Bajan obsession, guess again. Surfers come from all over the world to join locals carving the Soup Bowl waves at Bathsheba, on the island's east coast

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Surfing in South West Ireland | Tom Kay

Surfing in Ireland is definitely how the surfing scene the world over must have been twenty or thirty years back. The waves are unreal and uncrowded

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The Demon Slayer of Kuta | John Borthwick | Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands, Bali

Three weeks full of nothing but Kuta Reef and Ulu Watu point surf lay ahead of me. And so it was. Black rice porridge at Mades Restaurant. Hibiscus heat and dragonfly mornings. Massages on the beach

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