Just general surfing stuff

[Cranked]

The Drifter surf shop in Ulus has a fantastic collection of surf oriented books for sale. They have a quiet area where you can sit and read them... I spent many happy hours there.

[Yuke Hunt]

"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.

Speaking Of Lennox Head ... any news on the wife murderer ?

[Beanpole]

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

100%. Mexican Micks was a great example. It prompted a growth in Mexican Restaurants where ever there was surf up and down the East Coast. Used to be a good one in Murwillumbah run by hippies. Then there was Montezuma’s up on the Gold Coast. One at Kingscliff too. Billy Grant used to work there.

[buddy]

"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.

Speaking Of Lennox Head ... any news on the wife murderer ?

I see him all the time now as he surfs the quieter spots I do instead of boulders and flatty since the poddy started.

[BA]

"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.

Speaking Of Lennox Head ... any news on the wife murderer ?

I see him all the time now as he surfs the quieter spots I do instead of boulders and flatty since the poddy started.

Have you asked him if he knows Chris Dawson?

[steve shearer]

Went to Cheyne Horans single fin exhibition and now at Cooly airport.

Board checked in no probs.

Might get a Hungry Jacks burger.

Kirra looked beautiful.

[ajohnsen]

That’s a poem.

[Cranked]

[PeepeelaPew]

Might get a Hungry Jacks burger.

Tard comp is over for this year

[BA]

Went to Cheyne Horans single fin exhibition and now at Cooly airport.

Board checked in no probs.

Might get a Hungry Jacks burger.

Kirra looked beautiful.

Get some warm water tubes for your brine brothers.

[steve shearer]

Cheers BA I will.

I did have a Hungry Jacks burger. It was pretty gross.

[Yuke Hunt]

Cheers BA I will.

I did have a Hungry Jacks burger. It was pretty gross.

There's far better options there.

[BA]

Cheers BA I will.

I did have a Hungry Jacks burger. It was pretty gross.

There's far better options there.

Nah, it’s what you have to do at the airport.

[steve shearer]

Lots of tattooed bogans.

[PeepeelaPew]

Cheers BA I will.

I did have a Hungry Jacks burger. It was pretty gross.

There's far better options there.

Nah, it’s what you have to do at the airport.

If I needed a burger I would have tried Betty's. But there seems to be plenty of other options as Womble says.

[BA]

But that’s the point, it’s the airport, you don’t want better options. It’s the one time you eat that crap. Then you go to the bathroom and have a cry wank because you’re disgusted in yourself.

Well that’s what I’ve heard.

[Yuke Hunt]

Cheers BA I will.

I did have a Hungry Jacks burger. It was pretty gross.

There's far better options there.

Nah, it’s what you have to do at the airport.

If I needed a burger I would have tried Betty's. But there seems to be plenty of other options as Womble says.

The Virgin lounge for starters.

[PeepeelaPew]

I'm a Qantas lounge member and only fly them or partners if possible (for the points). Their lounges that I've been to are pretty average though.