Beautiful Waves

[dtc]

and the traditional bushfire (or burning off) in the background!

[saltydog]

Rincon Point firing...with the ant farm.

That's a familiar spot when I drive on 101, off shore oil derricks and all. Someday I'd like to go there when it's not so pumping!

[Big H]

A friend posted this is how he spent his birthday yesterday.....

[dtc]

Remind him he is now really old and you hate old people

[BoMan]

Surf Alaska....BRRRRRR!

[jaffa1949]

Remind him he is now really old and you hate old people

Now don't you go and get all ageist, on Uncle Jaffa just because he was born in the first half of the last century!

[dtc]

Remind him he is now really old and you hate old people

Now don't you go and get all ageist, on Uncle Jaffa just because he was born in the first half of the last century!

Only dislike old people who surf waves like that on their birthday and then tell everyone about it

[waikikikichan]

Surf Alaska....BRRRRRR!

Surf Waikiki ........ So HOT, you need some shade.

[BoMan]

Now don't you go and get all ageist, on Uncle Jaffa just because he was born in the first half of the last century!

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I'm with you, brother!

[jaffa1949]

Now don't you go and get all ageist, on Uncle Jaffa just because he was born in the first half of the last century!

OldGuysRule.jpg

I'm with you, brother!

So wrong, looks like the Byron Bay hipsters minus the man bun!
Buddhist monk head on me!

[jaffa1949]

Now don't you go and get all ageist, on Uncle Jaffa just because he was born in the first half of the last century!

OldGuysRule.jpg

I'm with you, brother!

So wrong, looks like the Byron Bay hipsters minus the man bun!
Buddhist monk head on me!

[BoMan]

Body surfing in Perth

[dtc]

Now don't you go and get all ageist, on Uncle Jaffa just because he was born in the first half of the last century!

OldGuysRule.jpg

I'm with you, brother!

So wrong, looks like the Byron Bay hipsters minus the man bun!
Buddhist monk head on me!

can you spot yourself in this jaffa

[jaffa1949]

can you spot yourself in this jaffa


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odahtyCJFI4

NO somebody stuck a world war and Pearl Harbour between that and my conception.
However a return trip to Waikiki with a board ride beside my wife who doesn't surf in an outrigger canoe would be suitable .
Hope I can do it during the Duke Kananamoku Festival.
With thanks for the gift he bought to Australia

[BoMan]

Greg Noll, Waimea Bay, Oahu 1957

[oldmansurfer]

That picture of Greg Noll is at Pipeline not Waimea Bay

[waikikikichan]

I guess this could be posted here and Surfer babe of the day pics. Photo credit to Surfilms Taiwan Photography

[jaffa1949]

Let's get a few dates and breaks right. The Greg Noll picture is contemplating outside pipeline in 1966 only five years after Phil Edwards first rode it in 1961, Waimea Bay had been ridden since 1957 , there was a session and some dispute about who rode it first.

It is worthwhile viewing the Bruce Brown and the Bud Brown movies of this time go and understand where it came from!

It is an interesting side note that " modern " Balsa Malibu chip surfboards produced shock and awe amongst the Australian lifesavers read lifeguards) when they out performed the old 16 foot surfing paddle skis.
The American lifeguards were here as part of the cultural program around the Melbourne Olympic Games of 1956
Two of the lifeguards were Greg Noll and Tommy Zahn ( also known for dating Norma Jean who became known as Marilyn Monroe) .

It rocked the core of Aussie surfing and then the Gidget movies hit.
The Bruce Brown , Bud Browne movies sort of treated Aussie surfers as yokels but gave some of our film makers a big start.
There is a long history , great stories many hidden in the woodwork in each country.

[dtc]

The film 'Riding Giants' has, at least for its first half, a lot of the Greg Noll, Waimea, Gidget stuff (then the second half is how great Laird Hamilton is, but its still interesting)

[dtc]

This was in my local paper today; a shot from a guy called luke shadbolt, who is a professional surf photographer