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.
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…
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]
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.
This sweet piece of film of Burleigh came courtesy of Geoff Charters by way of Grant Newby. Cheers guys…
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.
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.
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…
Killing the cool?
Russ Pierre checks out the competition cool at the British Longboard Championships in Jersey.
First there was paradise
Sri Lanka’s Arugam Bay is rebuilding itself after the devastation of the tsunami.
Taking it slow
Costa Rica is firmly on the tourist map, but it’s still possible to find solitude in the surf.
Three's the magic number
Championed by surfers in the know for over 30 years, has the time finally come for the Bonzer to shine?
Design for life
Bob McTavish’s opinions on the surfboard industry remain as controversial as ever.
Magical secret
Take a trip back in time with Jeff Divine to the early days of surf's counterculture.
