Just general surfing stuff

[alakaboo]

Last time I took the Bali-Lombok ferry it took more than 5 hours.

When I went to Sumbawa I took the fast passenger ferry.

[Cranked]

Yeah, I can't find anything quicker with a bike or car.

[offshore1]

Wouldn't have these problems on Mars.

[Yuke Hunt]

Wouldn't have these problems on Mars.

At 888kJ, it might get problematic.

[foamy]

A little bit blurry, but a pretty good photo of the man-made waterfall that used to run down beside Greenmount Beach. It was lovely. The even better bit was the created forest creek above the first of the 3 waterfalls. A little fantasy, rocky, very natural looking, multi-stage burbling watercourse that ran about 30 metres thru trees before feeding the three waterfalls.

Sadly removed due to a water conservation drive during a drought.

[Trev]

A little bit blurry, but a pretty good photo of the man-made waterfall that used to run down beside Greenmount Beach. It was lovely. The even better bit was the created forest creek above the first of the 3 waterfalls. A little fantasy, rocky, very natural looking, multi-stage burbling watercourse that ran about 30 metres thru trees before feeding the three waterfalls.

Sadly removed due to a water conservation drive during a drought.

Great memory there.
You can see the stairs up beside the waterfall. My Dad made and installed the handrails for them. They were still there about 15 years ago. But gone now.
Just to clarify, the stairs were there long before the waterfall. They were installed in 1965. Dad died at the end of that year.

[steve shearer]

I remember both of those features.

Fond memories of drinking cider on the headland before going into the Patch for dollar nights.

[The Mighty Sunbird]

You can’t get a blowie for a dollar nowadays

[Beanpole]

1969….we used to go for Sunday drives up to the Gold Coast to look at the new canal developments and stuff. Early September my parents had taken me to Kirra Zoo and then hit the Twin Towns Services Club. As per usual kids were left in the car to entertain themselves. Might get a packet of Smiths Crisps if you were lucky.
I walked over to Greenmount Point and watched the guys catching waves in through Rainbow. It looked unreal.Thats when I decided that’s what I wanted to do.

[alakaboo]

Leave the kids in the car and get drunk?

[Trev]

That’s the way it was, boo.
Spent a bit of time in my parents car outside the Tugun pub. On a Sunday mostly. Pubs were only open for a short while.

[alakaboo]

Was a joke, Trev.

He said it was when he decided to surf, but it sounded like he decided to do as his parents did

[BA]

I thought it was quite clever.

[Beanpole]

That’s the way it was, boo.
Spent a bit of time in my parents car outside the Tugun pub. On a Sunday mostly. Pubs were only open for a short while.

Yep, I remember telling a few young work colleagues that.
Totally did their head in.
Friday arvo I’d get chucked in the Murwillumbah Municipal Pool rain, hail or shine.
Moved to Cudgen when I was in Yr 10.
Then it was afternoon surfs and a ride home from the Bowlo.

[Trev]

Was a joke, Trev.

He said it was when he decided to surf, but it sounded like he decided to do as his parents did

I get it.

But it brought back memories.
Dad used to get seriously pissed and stagger home up Tugun hill after work but maybe only once every couple of months.
The Sunday sessions happened more often. He wouldn’t get pissed and Mum would have a shandy.

[Beanpole]

Plus you had to be a bonafide traveller to get a drink on a Sunday. So everyone would get in their car and drive somewhere.
How crazy was that. Caba Pub was really popular.

[Over55yrs]

600th issue of Tracks out now

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/ ... more-cover

[Yuke Hunt]

Plus you had to be a bonafide traveller to get a drink on a Sunday. So everyone would get in their car and drive somewhere.
How crazy was that. Caba Pub was really popular.

I'm good friends with the daughter of one of the Foyster brothers, who ran the sand mining down at Kings (hence the reef offshore being named Foysters Reef). The brothers were pretty wild and one of the anecdotes is of them hiring a car from a company in Sufferers Parasite, driving it to Cabba to party on, and then driving it all the way back in reverse to wind back the odometer ... because the hiring fee was calculated on distance travelled. Not that they didn't have the coin to pay.