There have been so many good swells over the past few weeks. I don't have many pictures but here are a few from two sessions today on my...

Vlatko has been shooting a photo story with me recently. He is in the process of moving to Northern Ireland and comes from the...

I recently did a shoot with Warner Bro's. I'll update this post with info in the next month or so.

Titus and Olivia visited recently and we did some photos together on film. The last time I saw so much film was in the fridge when I was...

Mark has been working on my boards for a few years now. I've known Mark for a long time and he's always been dismantling old surfboards,...

Speaking on Mental Health & Resilience to our National Fire and Rescue Service. I was invited to speak to Northern Ireland Fire and...

If you are looking form the Swim Through Darkness Blog you can find it on its own webpage here.... Thanks for checking it out and...

RISE is my 8th book. In this book the story is based on my childhood dream to become a Big Wave Surfer. Inspired by the surfers in...

A reminder that we are tiny in this world of power and energy. I've only seen the Northern Lights / Aurora happen a few times in my life,...

Ashley visited for a week and took some photographs of me in various walks of life. Ashely is from the world of TV and Movies and was...

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/video-news/watch-big-wave-surfer-al-mennie-releases-kids-book-about-keeping-the-ocean-and-beach-clean/...

It has been a crazy busy year but the website but we finally got round to getting the website freshened up. In fairness, it still needs a...

Thank you to everyone that ordered in the pre-order stage. I was not expecting such a far reaching interest in Billy so it is very...

This link to buy.... https://www.almennie.me/books . BILLY THE BASKING SHARK & THE SALTY SEA SWIMMERS This book is designed to educate...

Yesterday morning as I walked the beach with my dog Blyton, once again rubbish/trash left behind by visitors clogged the sand dunes and...

I am normally the one person you won’t find in the surf in anything less than a thin summer wetsuit. However, over the past six weeks I...

I've been adding Audio recordings to Spotify and Apple Books. There are a lot more to come. Here are links to a few of them....

I have been writing books since 2008. I have also written short stories and contributed to publications in books, magazines etc across...

It was a winter night in 1993, I was in Castlerock, on the end of my brothers bed watching a video about the infamous big waves at a spot...

It is that time of year again that the water is warming up and everyone is escaping to the water at the first chance. Paddle boarding has...