Swell Story: TC Lucas Pushes Kirra's Button Early February — time for the Gold Coast to dance. Harry Martin, Coolangatta Beach. Photo: Andrew Shield Nick Carroll Link copied to clipboard Tropical cyclone season in a La Niña year can be a total tease. Anticipation builds for weeks, if not months. Old guys tell you crusty yet epic stories of that 28 day swell in 1975. The weather maps look good, and then they don’t. Then at some point, things start popping. That’s just what happened during the first week of February, when two tropical cyclones popped in quick succession, and loaded up several days of magic along Australia’s best known super-points.