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]
Last week I had a visit, as they passed through Melbourne on a board-delivery errand to the Victorian coast, from Paul and Sage Joske… Father and son, teacher and pupil, friends.
Watching the Mundaka contest recently had me casting my mind back to my first sighting of that fabled sandbar way back in 1978.
Surfing and parenthood, or in my case fatherhood, may seem an odd topic to choose to open my contributions to Drift. But sooner or later it will catch up with most of us, so to all of you out there who haven’t had the pleasure, this is how it is.
Mick Sowry
Mick Sowry dreams about surfing more than he does it. In fact he dreams about most things more than he does them - a bit like everyone else then, really. He made a film, 'Musica Surfica'... which has done ok. Now he dreams about the next one.
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