Dato!
The Datsun 120y.
It’s funny how something so insignificant can make a trip or period of time so memorable.
Re-losing my surf virginity
Few people would imagine that I’ve spent the last three months in envy of my brother. He is currently in his second year at Swansea University – in the freezing Welsh valleys, completing assignments and attending lectures. I’m currently in my fifth month of travelling, enjoying the baking heat of the Australian summer, sleeping in late and partying away the night.
Alley Fish Fry 2010
Those of you with a fish fetish take note: on Sunday 14 March, Currumbin Alley is THE place be as this year’s Alley Fish Fry will be in full swing. Come along and admire, covet, and generally find out more about some of the most fabulous incarnations of this fun little board…
Localism & secret spots
I’m a St Kilda local.
St Kilda is, apart from an isolated archipelago in the Outer Hebrides, an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is famous for coffee, the arts, as a backpacker Mecca and the setting of the onetime very popular television series ‘The Secret Life of Us’.
[photo by Rodney Hyett]
Hells Bells… SHARK!!!
Still striving to improve my surfing I jumped on a plane from Indo to Australia touching down in Melbourne. Buzzing from the Indo experience, I was on a mission to get straight back in the water.
Burleigh Heads on display
This sweet piece of film of Burleigh came courtesy of Geoff Charters by way of Grant Newby. Cheers guys…
Angourie working
Grant Newby, instigator of the original Alley Fish Fry, sent me these shots of Angourie from his good friend Sean Scott, an incredibly talented ocean photographer who runs two galleries out of Burleigh Heads and Coolangatta.
Dancing with Mother Nature
Australian Xavier Rudd is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has a strong connection with environmentalism and the rights of Aborigines. His inspiration comes as much from the ocean as the land.
A pocketful of pencils
Andrew Crockett and Californian artist Harry Daily collaborated on Crockett’s sumptuous ‘Switch-Foot’ book back in 2006. They caught up last year during a chance meeting back in the UK…
