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…
Looking back
Tom Wegener heralds a surfing renaissance as he explores his experiences with alaias.
The joys of forward trim
Chris Preston chats to the best shaper you've never heard of, Tim Mason, about hulls and flex.
Analogic thinking...
...in the age of the programmable hand. In conversation with Josh Hall.
Sentenced to surf
Carly Lorente reports on France’s radical move to use surfing to improve the minds of young offenders.
First there was paradise
Sri Lanka’s Arugam Bay is rebuilding itself after the devastation of the tsunami.
Magical secret
Take a trip back in time with Jeff Divine to the early days of surf's counterculture.
