Just general surfing stuff

[buddy]

Geger is the main wave I’ve ever surfed in Bali.
I like it.
Probably crowded these days, like everywhere else.
Early morning could be good though cos a lot of people transport there from elsewhere in wet season.

[Beanpole]

I’ve surfed Ulus, Canggu, Green Balls, Serengan, Medewi, Balian, Hyatt Reef, Kuta Reef, Kuta and Legian in the old days. Also get fun beach breaks down from Ku De Ta quite often when we stay down that end of Seminyak.

[steve shearer]

Pyzalien.

I would but I put a big split in the tail during one of those hollow days in winter and haven't fixed it.

[buddy]

Give us a multiple choice then.

[foamy]

A Dylan Graves short vid.
3 hours in the pool with Mick Fanning that decided his next business venture.

https://youtu.be/CGFi97OwOIQ

[steve shearer]

Might take 3 boards.

Was thinking a 6'1" Sabotaj as a shorty.

6'6" DS as a step-up.

6'8" middy as a crowd controller or groveller.

[steve shearer]

A Dylan Graves short vid.
3 hours in the pool with Mick Fanning that decided his next business venture.

https://youtu.be/CGFi97OwOIQ

Surfing's Real Estate phase.

[foamy]

Although real estate agent has been a popular career option for top surfers. Ted Spencer, Mark Warren, Kingsley Looker and Allen Sarlo immediately come to mind.

More broadly though, it is a career option open to retired sports stars.

[The Mighty Sunbird]

I'm 2nd from right without a shirt.

Looks like you’ve pissed yourself

[Beanpole]

Surfboat?

[Trev]

Surfboat?

A rowing “Four” outside the rowing club at South Tweed.

[The Mighty Sunbird]

Is that your boyfriend’s hand your holding?

[BA]

You’re.

[steve shearer]

[buddy]

I didn’t know you rowed with Alfred E. Neuman, Trevor.

[offshore1]

Surfboat?

A rowing “Four” outside the rowing club at South Tweed.

Very cool.

[steve shearer]

"We have watched many of our brothers and sisters make life out to be little more than a merry ride for status and an intense search for the holy dollar sign. The great peace potential lies ‘in state’ within us all. Without vision, we pay for everything; we pay with money, and with days and hours of our lives. Surfing is an art to the free man, the artist. The citizen of the world"

John Scott, deceased.

Lennox Head via Santa Cruz.

[Cranked]

Those were the days. Many of my friends moved there in the late 60s and 70s.

I was about going to ask how the Americans who moved to Byron in the 70s were getting on and googled it first... found this gem:

Neverland: American and Australian surfers in Byron Bay 1960s & 1970s
Author: Tricia Shantz

How Byron went from provincial abattoir town to hippie surfer underground enclave to a world-class culture and festival mecca with some of the priciest real estate in Australia. These are the stories of the young American and Australian surfers, who came to Byron in search of that different life. A surfing life (style) gave them a new outlook and another way of refreshing change. It offered the smell of a new way of freedom. They were the new pioneers of that era. One could still actually ride a horse into town. They built their own houses. The 'Yanks' started businesses because there were few alternatives to mining, the smelly, bloody abattoir and whaling or a nine to five lifestyle. Byron Bay was a small, working class town when they came. With few jobs to be had the Americans brought their business acumen and desire to stay and to make a living. They opened vegetarian café/restaurants, music venues, and surf shops. They created surf clothing, legropes music alternative newspapers and surf films. It became a hothouse of cultural activity. They were the catalyst for the change that came. They were the reason that Byron is what it is today.

ISBN : 9780987152237
Publisher : Hardie Grant Books