In looking to refurb and update the museum one of the themes we will be exploring is People and Place. There is certainly a LOT locally to celebrate, a pretty epic place, steeped in surfing history, with a raft of interesting characters . . . I love this photo taken by Peter Ginnane a Bells in 1971. Check out the range of craft on the roof of the Holden, and all that neoprene stacked in the boot. Not sure who was piloting the EH but it’s got South Australian plates. That is Ian Walding’s Kombi with the bug beside it, all parked in the lower car park (before all the amazing organic rehabilitati ..read more

Bonus nedir, canlı bahis sitelerinde 2024 bonus kampanyaları nelerdir öğrenin. Bahis severler için en cazip bonuslar ve ipuçları burada.Canlı bahis oynamak, dünya genelinde milyonlarca kişi için son yıllarda bir tutkuya dönüşmüş durumda. Bu büyüleyici dünyanın, oyuncuları kendine çeken pek çok özelliği var. Ancak en ilgi çeken unsurlardan biri, şüphesiz, bahis siteleri tarafından sunulan bonuslar. Peki, ama bonus tam olarak nedir ve canlı bahis siteleri tarafından nasıl kullanılır? 2024 yılı itibariyle, canlı bahis tutkunlarını hangi bonus kampanyaları bekliyor? İşte bu soruların yanıtlarını a ..read more

Simon Anderson’s Thruster is The Most Significant Design Innovation of the past 100 years, ushering in a new era of wave shredding performance and eventually becoming the most copied board design in history. Over the past 50 years, the majority of surfboard design improvements have been fairly subtle; refinements on a steady design continuum. But very rarely, original and inspired designs are so radical that they change what surfing is. In our minds surfboards are beautiful aesthetic objects – three-dimensional art and functional sculpture at the same time. When assessing boards here at the mu ..read more

An old saying goes: “Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see.” It’s not bad advice these days considering some of what goes on with the internet. This though is a story of one of the most iconic images from Australian surfing history, and how despite being published repeatedly and widely for almost 60 years, it is not exactly what many people believe it is. Jack Eden’s shot (above) of Midget Farrelly in the first “official” World Championship at Manly in 1964 was titled “Final Wave”. This was a seriously big moment in our surfing history – something of a coming of age for ..read more

ISABEL LETHAM   History can be a slippery beast, to a large degree we only know what we know, in time historical focus can become quite tight ignoring a broader, more detailed past. As time inserts distance between events and recollections, things can get lost, other elements may be added, and stories can change.   For a long time Isabel Letham was celebrated as Australia’s first surfer. The story of a 14 year old Isabel being plucked from the crowd and invited out to surf tandem with Duke Kahanamoku has been romanticized and repeated for a very long time. This particular tale has be ..read more

Harry Wicke was Australian surfboard champion in 1939, he loved the beach, surfing, and was actively involved in the local Surf Life Saving club. But darker days were looming on the world stage, troubled times that would unfairly impact Harry, his idyllic coastal life was about to get turned on its head. Harry‘s father was German and his mother an Aussie, he was born in Germany in 1914. The family moved to Manly in 1927 where young Harry was soon drawn to the sparkling waters of the Pacific. Harry joined the Manly Surf Life Saving Club but didn’t consider himself a strong swimmer, of all the ..read more

Arthur Parkyn may not be a name familiar to Australian surfers, but it should be. He facilitated one of the greatest shifts in Australian surfing history. A member of the Mooloolaba SLSA Arthur was chosen by the national surf life saving body to coach a Hawaiian team in anticipation of their participation in the International Surf Carnival at Torquay in 1956. This turned out to be one of the most pivotal points in Australian surfing history, the birth of modern surfing in Australia. Arthur had been to Hawaii three years earlier and was warmly welcomed back by the islands life saving crew. Park ..read more

FROM THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE   As the 1960s came to a close, the times were a changing, there was revolution in the air. It was a period of dramatic social change, everything was being questioned, and social norms were being turned on their heads. The summer of love had come and gone, and surfers were squarely part of a counter culture movement. Country soul was the feeling many surfers wanted to embrace, a return to more simple living, being self-reliant and surfing wilderness locations. Eastern religions were being explored and Timothy Leary’s advice to “turn on, tune in, and drop ..read more

THE BOARD THAT CHANGED THE SURFING WORLD Simon Anderson’s Thruster is surfboard is pretty much the most significant surfboard of the past one hundred years. This board ushered in a new era of performance and is the most copied and referenced design in history, let me explain. Surfboards are beautiful aesthetic objects, three dimensional art, and functional sculpture. Most surfboard design changes have been subtle, the refinement of a design continuum, but sometimes original inspired designs are so radical that they change what we imagine surfing can be. When assessing surfboards at the museum ..read more

MIGHTY MIGHTY KONG! In the mid seventies as pro surfing became more established, there was one surfer who definitely stood out from the crowd. Wearing hyper-coloured superhero inspired wetsuits and riding fully decorated surfboards, Newcastle’s Mark Richards was making quite an impression in the surf and creating headlines with his performances and equipment. Even as a teenager, Mark had been making regular trips to Hawaii and had established relationships with many of the best surfboard shapers there, including Ben Aipa, who was one of the most progressive shapers at the time. Ben’s hydropla ..read more