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Tales from the Chook Shed Episode 2

July 30, 2010 | Words By: Mick

Tales from the Chook Shed Nick Carrol talks about Maurice Cole, his surfboards and their design evolution, concaves and carving with small boards on some very big waves, plus… a little bit of Kelly.

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Localism & secret spots

December 29, 2009 | Words By: Mick

rodneyhyettI’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]

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Agave art|board

November 02, 2009 | Words By: Mick

agave_openerLast 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.

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Mundaka memories

October 21, 2009 | Words By: Mick

mundaka-80-tube-openWatching the Mundaka contest recently had me casting my mind back to my first sighting of that fabled sandbar way back in 1978.

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Heaven on a stick

October 13, 2009 | Words By: Mick

tom-underwater-smallSurfing 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.

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