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Opening image: Cromwell Day launching his family wa'a, Hekili'o Kahana. Photo Chris Miyashiro

Editor’s intro from the Roaring Journals third print edition.

Opening image: It’s time to protect Australia’s ocean, for good. Photo Tāne Sinclair-Taylor

It’s time to protect Australia’s ocean, for good.

Opening image: Moona Whyte, Paige Alms and Kyle Thiermann ready to put in. British Columbia. Photo Christa Funk

Thick Wetsuits Aren’t So Bad When They Break Your Fall

Opening image: Heli at work, lifeguarding on Main Beach, Byron Bay. It's a colourful but challenging job. Photo Clem Bourke

Ageing radically: Heli Murray is just doing her thing

Opening image: Siska balances a traditional life at home with her family on Siberut with an emerging life in the waves. Photo Jack O'Grady

Siska will go - a modern Mentawaian surf fable

Opening image: The author, Tully White checking out a healthy Pacific oyster, fresh out of the Bhundoo River. Photo Matt Dunbar

The river keeper: A morning on the Bhundoo

Opening image: The ducks are the stars of episode one. “They’re manure machines,” says Heath. “And I love ‘em for it.” Photo Andrew Buckley

Sea to Soil: Heath Joske's Decade in the Dirt

Opening image: In recent times the great white has circled back into the consciousness of the Australian surfer. Photo Nick Green

A Primal Reboot: How the return of the white shark is rewilding humans.

Opening image: Tahlija Redgard lives out of her troopy, following the seasons for fish and surf. It’s a simple life that keeps her connected to her saltwater upbringing. Photo Charlotte Martin

Gifts from the blue: Tahlija's Journal: a day, a season, a childhood

Opening image: Ted had visited Patagonia twice before – once after a drunken night out on a surf trip in Peru, secondly on a motorbike trip south from LA. His third trip afforded him the time to truly appreciate the place. Photo Ted Grambeau

"Why not keep going?" Third time lucky for Ted Grambeau in Patagonia

Opening image: Victoria’s Surf Coast has a decade-long history of leading the fight against new offshore oil and gas. Photo Scott McClymont/Juc Media

The World's Worst Christmas Present: The Otway Basin handed to the gas industry

Opening image: ‘Polly’ has spent over three decades diving and surfing in Tasmanian waters. There are few people better placed to offer an assessment of what’s going on below the surface. Photo Nick Green

A barren prospect: In Tasmania, the deforestation isn’t just in the hills

Opening image: Mick Mackie has taken elements of skate and snow, merged them with some classic outlines, and brough them across into a unique range of designs he's refined over the past couples of decades. Photo Mick Sowry

Outliers: Part 1.618: the South Coast

Opening image: Dave Rastovich is very much part of the biological soil network in his North Coast garden. Photo Christa Funk

Place and position: Christa Funk has found her’s

Opening image: Albe has been on his North Coast property for over 50 years now, and has transformed it into a green riot, home to a menagerie of creatures including some resident king parrots. Photo Shorty

Dave and Uncle Buddha: “It was better to be invisible. But I didn't realise that at the time.”

Opening image: The Rivers Run scored a bluebird day for the 43km saltwater traverse of the Ballina to Brunswick coastline.

The rivers run: Dave Rastovich's backyard ultra

Opening image: Corey Graham is a second generation surfboard designer and one of shaping's contemporary free thinkers. Photo Katey Shearer

Fun rubbish: none of the rules apply

Opening image: The humble Australian salmon unites Australians as an iconic coastal species... but divides them on whether it's any good to eat. Photo Reed Plummer

The Australian everyfish: a humble tribute to the real salmon

Opening image: For Eala, this North Shore winter had a dream feel to it. Photo Brent Bielmann

Eala Stewart walks on air: some Hawaiian celestial alignment

Opening image: Fishery Bay on a glorious bluebird day. Photo by Matt Dodd

West coast surf chasers: The story of Fishery Bay

Opening image: Young Owen Richards and Doug, challenging gravity to come get him. Photo SA Rips

His name was Doug: “What we’re all about down here on earth”

Opening image: The world's largest body of water feels even bigger when you've got to row from one side of it to the other. Photo Stuart Ireland/Calypso Productions

AN OCEAN , BY HAND : JESS ROWE AND MIRIAM PAYNE ROW THE SOUTH PACIFIC

Opening image: Doug Richards, King of the Dunes. Photo SA Rips

Editor’s intro from the Roaring Journals second print edition.

Opening image: Paddler scores a bluebird day out on the water. Photo Liam O’Brien

Dave's Backyard Ultra: "We'll Have a totally different perspective of home"

Opening image: A blue groper cruises an urchin barren off the coast of Eden, on the NSW South Coast. Photo Stefan Andrew

A spiky problem: turning the tables on the reef eaters

Opening image: The lead runners head up Skennars Head, on their way north, running for clean rivers. Photo Liam O’Brien

The Rivers Run: First with blackwater, then with hope

Opening image: Thomas Campbell films have always looked at surfing in different ways. Photo Grant Ellis

“These are the people who were left": Thomas Campbell on Yi-Wo

Opening image: Southern sky doof, in full technicolour. Photo SA Rips

Southern Sky Doof: The Accidental Aurora Australis

Opening image: Arlene's Shangri-La — built with partner Jake and daughter MG — in foreground, booming north swell filling the frame. Photo Arlene Bax

Atoll Dreaming: “These Are The Sweet Rewards, A Fool’s Paradise”

Opening image: The first signs of the algal bloom were seen along vast areas of the South Australian coastline in early March, with ocean temps 2.5˚C above average. Photo courtesy Surfers For Climate

Sea-Sick: Inside the South Australian Algal Bloom

The Farm Boys van breaking down on the Far South Coast of NSW was a blessing in disguise, as the boys took the opportunity to catch up with old mate, Wayne Carberry who took them for a walk and a feed on Yuin Country.

Farm Boys Bonus Episode: A Walk On Country

'Paddle out to stop PEP11'. Detail from Ben Brown's poster art for Surfrider Foundation

The Zombies of Manly: The protest art of Ben Brown

Opening image: Humpbacks have been central to the story of Byron Bay for tens of thousands of years. Photo Craig Parry

Nguthungulli has watched all this: Know your place in our place

Opening image: Day one at Marthas was long lefts. Day two was long rights. Day three? Perfect peaks, just right. Dave Rastovich sampling a surfing treasure. Photo Ted Grambeau

Five Years On: Keeping King Island Fish Farm Free

Opening image: The magic of Martha Lavinia’s beachbreaks and their allure to surfers from around the world haven’t been enough to keep it safe from Tasmania’s salmon industry. Photo Stu Gibson

Five Years On: The Making of Saving Martha

Opening image: The reefs around Masig have supported the island community for thousands of years. Photo Nicole Gormley

Cups of Tea on Masig: A teardrop island in a rising sea

Opening image: Fletch at work in his shaping bay in the old Quonset hut out back of Patagonia’s Ventura campus. Photo Jeff Johnson

Just a fun puzzle: A chat with Fletcher Chouinard

Opening image: The ‘Dodgey Baywatch’ protest at Dodges Ferry saw 2000 Tasmanians voice their objection to the expansion of the salmon industry in nearby Storm Bay. Photo NOFF

Captives Going in Circles Part 3: “Their greed is great, but our love is stronger"

Opening image: In the space of just two years, the Tasmanian salmon industry went from locally owned to being almost exclusively owned by multinational corporations with chequered histories. Photo Nick Green

Captives Going in Circles Part 2: An ancient fish meets modern politics

Opening image: North Coast fin fizz. Photo Ryan "Chachi" Craig

The Extinction of Dave Rastovich: Or is there a Dave heir, somewhere?

Opening image: "It’s hard not to feel good as you wander around your patch in the golden evening light, picking and tasting things as you go," writes Paul West. Photo Harry Triglone

Save the World: Start a Garden

Opening image: Thomas and Jordie making the most of a blustery afternoon on Wadawurrung Country. Photo Ferne Millen

“Hope is Like Energy, Hope is Contagious": Thomas Mayo on Activism, the Ocean and What Happens Next

Opening image: For Wayne today, a drive back down the Great Ocean Road is a drive back into his past. Photo Jon Frank

“What's past is prologue": Wayne Lynch wakes up on a new coast

Opening image: Salmon pens hugging the coast just around the corner from the town of Coningham Beach. Photo Nick Green

Captives Going in Circles: How the salmon industry disenfranchises Tasmanians

Opening image: Pacha Light travelled to Iceland to find a community just discovering surf culture, and a wave on the brink of destruction. Photo Nick Green

Frozen Treasure: A wave being lost before it's been truly discovered

Opening image: Most surfers wear a stern, concentrated look in the tube. Moona Whyte prefers to smile. Photo Kirvan Baldassari

Chess Not Checkers: Moona's Mentawai Dream

The Swellians, Lauren Hill, Dave Rastovich and Derek Hynd getting live and loquacious at the Byron Community Centre. Photo Jarrah Lynch

Notes From the End of the World: Live from Byron

Opening image: Dune camp. Photo SA Rips

Out There: 10,000 years and one winter in the desert

Opening image: Laura, fishing boats and a slow stroll to the surf in Portugal. Photo Ben Herrgott

"Soaked to the Bone": Laura and Ben ride across Spain and Portugal

Opening image: Sometimes, once in a while, everything lines up — Oscar Wyatt in full flight way out west. Photo Dan Haley

"Countless gloomy skunkings": A Surfing Life at the End of the World

Opening image: Cromwell Day launching his family wa'a, Hekili'o Kahana. Photo Chris Miyashiro

Editor’s intro from the Roaring Journals third print edition.

Opening image: It’s time to protect Australia’s ocean, for good. Photo Tāne Sinclair-Taylor

It’s time to protect Australia’s ocean, for good.

Opening image: Moona Whyte, Paige Alms and Kyle Thiermann ready to put in. British Columbia. Photo Christa Funk

Thick Wetsuits Aren’t So Bad When They Break Your Fall

Opening image: Heli at work, lifeguarding on Main Beach, Byron Bay. It's a colourful but challenging job. Photo Clem Bourke

Ageing radically: Heli Murray is just doing her thing

Opening image: Siska balances a traditional life at home with her family on Siberut with an emerging life in the waves. Photo Jack O'Grady

Siska will go - a modern Mentawaian surf fable

Opening image: The author, Tully White checking out a healthy Pacific oyster, fresh out of the Bhundoo River. Photo Matt Dunbar

The river keeper: A morning on the Bhundoo

Opening image: The ducks are the stars of episode one. “They’re manure machines,” says Heath. “And I love ‘em for it.” Photo Andrew Buckley

Sea to Soil: Heath Joske's Decade in the Dirt

Opening image: In recent times the great white has circled back into the consciousness of the Australian surfer. Photo Nick Green

A Primal Reboot: How the return of the white shark is rewilding humans.

Opening image: Tahlija Redgard lives out of her troopy, following the seasons for fish and surf. It’s a simple life that keeps her connected to her saltwater upbringing. Photo Charlotte Martin

Gifts from the blue: Tahlija's Journal: a day, a season, a childhood

Opening image: Ted had visited Patagonia twice before – once after a drunken night out on a surf trip in Peru, secondly on a motorbike trip south from LA. His third trip afforded him the time to truly appreciate the place. Photo Ted Grambeau

"Why not keep going?" Third time lucky for Ted Grambeau in Patagonia

Opening image: Victoria’s Surf Coast has a decade-long history of leading the fight against new offshore oil and gas. Photo Scott McClymont/Juc Media

The World's Worst Christmas Present: The Otway Basin handed to the gas industry

Opening image: ‘Polly’ has spent over three decades diving and surfing in Tasmanian waters. There are few people better placed to offer an assessment of what’s going on below the surface. Photo Nick Green

A barren prospect: In Tasmania, the deforestation isn’t just in the hills

Opening image: Mick Mackie has taken elements of skate and snow, merged them with some classic outlines, and brough them across into a unique range of designs he's refined over the past couples of decades. Photo Mick Sowry

Outliers: Part 1.618: the South Coast

Opening image: Dave Rastovich is very much part of the biological soil network in his North Coast garden. Photo Christa Funk

Place and position: Christa Funk has found her’s

Opening image: Albe has been on his North Coast property for over 50 years now, and has transformed it into a green riot, home to a menagerie of creatures including some resident king parrots. Photo Shorty

Dave and Uncle Buddha: “It was better to be invisible. But I didn't realise that at the time.”

Opening image: The Rivers Run scored a bluebird day for the 43km saltwater traverse of the Ballina to Brunswick coastline.

The rivers run: Dave Rastovich's backyard ultra

Opening image: Corey Graham is a second generation surfboard designer and one of shaping's contemporary free thinkers. Photo Katey Shearer

Fun rubbish: none of the rules apply

Opening image: The humble Australian salmon unites Australians as an iconic coastal species... but divides them on whether it's any good to eat. Photo Reed Plummer

The Australian everyfish: a humble tribute to the real salmon

Opening image: For Eala, this North Shore winter had a dream feel to it. Photo Brent Bielmann

Eala Stewart walks on air: some Hawaiian celestial alignment

Opening image: Fishery Bay on a glorious bluebird day. Photo by Matt Dodd

West coast surf chasers: The story of Fishery Bay

Opening image: Young Owen Richards and Doug, challenging gravity to come get him. Photo SA Rips

His name was Doug: “What we’re all about down here on earth”

Opening image: The world's largest body of water feels even bigger when you've got to row from one side of it to the other. Photo Stuart Ireland/Calypso Productions

AN OCEAN , BY HAND : JESS ROWE AND MIRIAM PAYNE ROW THE SOUTH PACIFIC

Opening image: Doug Richards, King of the Dunes. Photo SA Rips

Editor’s intro from the Roaring Journals second print edition.

Opening image: Paddler scores a bluebird day out on the water. Photo Liam O’Brien

Dave's Backyard Ultra: "We'll Have a totally different perspective of home"

Opening image: A blue groper cruises an urchin barren off the coast of Eden, on the NSW South Coast. Photo Stefan Andrew

A spiky problem: turning the tables on the reef eaters

Opening image: The lead runners head up Skennars Head, on their way north, running for clean rivers. Photo Liam O’Brien

The Rivers Run: First with blackwater, then with hope

Opening image: Thomas Campbell films have always looked at surfing in different ways. Photo Grant Ellis

“These are the people who were left": Thomas Campbell on Yi-Wo

Opening image: Southern sky doof, in full technicolour. Photo SA Rips

Southern Sky Doof: The Accidental Aurora Australis

Opening image: Arlene's Shangri-La — built with partner Jake and daughter MG — in foreground, booming north swell filling the frame. Photo Arlene Bax

Atoll Dreaming: “These Are The Sweet Rewards, A Fool’s Paradise”

Opening image: The first signs of the algal bloom were seen along vast areas of the South Australian coastline in early March, with ocean temps 2.5˚C above average. Photo courtesy Surfers For Climate

Sea-Sick: Inside the South Australian Algal Bloom

The Farm Boys van breaking down on the Far South Coast of NSW was a blessing in disguise, as the boys took the opportunity to catch up with old mate, Wayne Carberry who took them for a walk and a feed on Yuin Country.

Farm Boys Bonus Episode: A Walk On Country

'Paddle out to stop PEP11'. Detail from Ben Brown's poster art for Surfrider Foundation

The Zombies of Manly: The protest art of Ben Brown

Opening image: Humpbacks have been central to the story of Byron Bay for tens of thousands of years. Photo Craig Parry

Nguthungulli has watched all this: Know your place in our place

Opening image: Day one at Marthas was long lefts. Day two was long rights. Day three? Perfect peaks, just right. Dave Rastovich sampling a surfing treasure. Photo Ted Grambeau

Five Years On: Keeping King Island Fish Farm Free

Opening image: The magic of Martha Lavinia’s beachbreaks and their allure to surfers from around the world haven’t been enough to keep it safe from Tasmania’s salmon industry. Photo Stu Gibson

Five Years On: The Making of Saving Martha

Opening image: The reefs around Masig have supported the island community for thousands of years. Photo Nicole Gormley

Cups of Tea on Masig: A teardrop island in a rising sea

Opening image: Fletch at work in his shaping bay in the old Quonset hut out back of Patagonia’s Ventura campus. Photo Jeff Johnson

Just a fun puzzle: A chat with Fletcher Chouinard

Opening image: The ‘Dodgey Baywatch’ protest at Dodges Ferry saw 2000 Tasmanians voice their objection to the expansion of the salmon industry in nearby Storm Bay. Photo NOFF

Captives Going in Circles Part 3: “Their greed is great, but our love is stronger"

Opening image: In the space of just two years, the Tasmanian salmon industry went from locally owned to being almost exclusively owned by multinational corporations with chequered histories. Photo Nick Green

Captives Going in Circles Part 2: An ancient fish meets modern politics

Opening image: North Coast fin fizz. Photo Ryan "Chachi" Craig

The Extinction of Dave Rastovich: Or is there a Dave heir, somewhere?

Opening image: "It’s hard not to feel good as you wander around your patch in the golden evening light, picking and tasting things as you go," writes Paul West. Photo Harry Triglone

Save the World: Start a Garden

Opening image: Thomas and Jordie making the most of a blustery afternoon on Wadawurrung Country. Photo Ferne Millen

“Hope is Like Energy, Hope is Contagious": Thomas Mayo on Activism, the Ocean and What Happens Next

Opening image: For Wayne today, a drive back down the Great Ocean Road is a drive back into his past. Photo Jon Frank

“What's past is prologue": Wayne Lynch wakes up on a new coast

Opening image: Salmon pens hugging the coast just around the corner from the town of Coningham Beach. Photo Nick Green

Captives Going in Circles: How the salmon industry disenfranchises Tasmanians

Opening image: Pacha Light travelled to Iceland to find a community just discovering surf culture, and a wave on the brink of destruction. Photo Nick Green

Frozen Treasure: A wave being lost before it's been truly discovered

Opening image: Most surfers wear a stern, concentrated look in the tube. Moona Whyte prefers to smile. Photo Kirvan Baldassari

Chess Not Checkers: Moona's Mentawai Dream

The Swellians, Lauren Hill, Dave Rastovich and Derek Hynd getting live and loquacious at the Byron Community Centre. Photo Jarrah Lynch

Notes From the End of the World: Live from Byron

Opening image: Dune camp. Photo SA Rips

Out There: 10,000 years and one winter in the desert

Opening image: Laura, fishing boats and a slow stroll to the surf in Portugal. Photo Ben Herrgott

"Soaked to the Bone": Laura and Ben ride across Spain and Portugal

Opening image: Sometimes, once in a while, everything lines up — Oscar Wyatt in full flight way out west. Photo Dan Haley

"Countless gloomy skunkings": A Surfing Life at the End of the World