***Update 29 May 2018*** WA Surf Industry pioneers Len Dibben and Tom Blaxell have advised that the caption on Image #14 is incorrect. It should read 1975 Bruce Hocking surfing Seconds at the Cove Cottesloe and not Lindsay Thompson surfing Rocky Point in the SW.
Over the years the owner and operator of the caravan park at Smiths Beach, acquired a diverse collection of surfing memorabilia with a WA Surf Museum in mind.
However, the proposed Surf Museum venture didn’t eventuate, and the collection has since been sold off. The surfboard collection was sold at auction and the framed surf images and other collectables were sold with the Canal Rocks Beachfront apartments in late 2017.
In Sept 2017, the owner kindly allowed Dunsborough photographer Ian Wiese and I to photograph and record some of the surf memorabilia in the Canal Rocks Beachfront apartments before they were sold. The photos had to be taken in place as the posters and photographs were fastened to the walls, and although care was taken to minimize reflections this was not always possible.
This is a collection of framed SW images from Canal Rocks Beachfront apartments.
Image #1. Late 50s Surfer’s wave sharing at Yallingup.
Image #2. 1960 Beachniks jogging on the beach at Yallingup for media article.
Image #3. Early 1960s Rick Skelton with Morris Minor and Glen Smith & Kim ‘Dish’ Standish with Ford Zephyr loaded with surfboards in front of Caves House Hotel Yallingup.
Image #4. 1966 Terry James from Yallingup Board Club surfing Yallingup.
Image #5. 1965/66 Brian Boyne’s single spinner Customline outside Yallingup Board Club shack.
Image #6. 1960s John Jakovich surfing Windmills surf break near Cape Naturaliste.
Image #7. 1960s Mick Simms surfing Windmills surf break near Cape Naturaliste.
Image #8. 1960s Gracetown townsite under development.
Image #9. Late 1960s Ian Cairns surfing Margaret River.
Image #10. 1970s Craig Bettenay surfing Margaret River Main Break.
Image #11. 1970s Tom Hoye surfing Margaret River Main Break – sequence.
Image #12. 1970s George Simpson surfing Margaret River Main Break
Image #13. 1974 Ian Cairns surfing Margaret River. Ric Chan pic.
**Image #14 caption incorrect** see update 29 May 2018 top of article.
Image #14. 1975 Lindsay Thompson surfing Rocky Point.
Image #15. 1975 Jim Banks (NSW) competing in Australian Surf Titles at Lefthanders near Gracetown.
Coming soon Vintage WA surf images
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