In the 1950s the only vehicle access to waves in Injidup Bay was via a rough old fishermen’s track which ran off Wyadup Road, Yallingup.
Following tip-offs from local fishermen Injidup Bay with its car park peaks and long left-hand Point breaks were among the first surf spots to make their way into the new discoveries surfing map circa 1957.
Tony Harbison – The fisherman and surfers were getting on famously in the front bar at Caves House pub. The fisherman reckoned surfers were mad going out in the big surf as there were sharks everywhere, especially when the salmon were running. Anyhow, the reckoned they knew of a wave we wouldn’t surf.So the next morning we met the fisherman at the end of Wyadup Road, piled into American Willy’s jeep, boards and all, and went down to Injidup car park.
Kevin Merifield – In the 1950s we surfed Yallingup for the first eighteen months before we ventured out to look for new surfing locations. The next one we found in 1957 we called Injidup Bay. There was no road into it just an old worn out fishermen’s track with plenty of limestone outcrops. There were no four-wheel drives, so we used to take our cars down these beaten up tracks and almost every time you’d get bogged., taking three or four guys to push you out of the bog and more often than not also taking out a muffler or staking a tyre. About the only car that could handle the track trouble free was the old reliable Volkswagen Beetle, they would go anywhere and looked a sight with six 9 or 10-foot mals strapped to the roof.
1960 Surfers pushing their ute full of Malibu surfboards along the old track to Injidup Bay. Image courtesy of Jim Keenan L-R. Robert ‘Puppy Dog’ Paton, Bernie Huddle, Jim Keenan & Ian ‘Billy Bunter’ Todman.
An unsealed road was
constructed to Injidup Bay in the early 1960s.
Bill Gibson – In the 60s I think the road surface and car park was gravel as I remember corrugations on the drive in and out. When the Rangers kicked us out of Yallingup beach car park, we camped under the melaleuca trees near Injidup car park. A rough dirt track to Injidup Point started up the hill from where we camped.
1964 Surf check from rocky dirt track to Injidup Point. Arthur Sherburn pic Arty Sherburn and his mates in Bruce Brown’s FC Holden.
The Injidup Bay car park was still unsealed in 1971.
1971 Surf check unsealed car park Injidup Bay. Ric Chan pic. Jeff ‘Re’ Marshall’s Holden panel van is on the left and George Simpson’s Valiant ute is on the right.
The Injidup Bay car park was sealed by 1975.
1975 Surf check in sealed Injidup car park. Ross Utting & Joe Fimmano. Jim King pic 1976 Pro surfer Ian Cairn’s City Motors sponsor car parked in sealed Injidup car park. Ric Chan pic 1980 Ocean view from bitumen car park Injidup. Ric Chan pic.
Tony Harbison’s & Kevin Merifield’s comments were sourced from the Surfing Down South book published 2014.
In the 1950s the only vehicle access to waves in Injidup Bay was via a rough old fishermen’s track which ran off Wyadup Road, Yallingup.
Following tip-offs from local fishermen Injidup Bay with its car park peaks and long left-hand Point breaks were among the first surf spots to make their way into the new discoveries surfing map circa 1957.
Tony Harbison – The fisherman and surfers were getting on famously in the front bar at Caves House pub. The fisherman reckoned surfers were mad going out in the big surf as there were sharks everywhere, especially when the salmon were running. Anyhow, the reckoned they knew of a wave we wouldn’t surf. So the next morning we met the fisherman at the end of Wyadup Road, piled into American Willy’s jeep, boards and all, and went down to Injidup car park.
Kevin Merifield – In the 1950s we surfed Yallingup for the first eighteen months before we ventured out to look for new surfing locations. The next one we found in 1957 we called Injidup Bay. There was no road into it just an old worn out fishermen’s track with plenty of limestone outcrops. There were no four-wheel drives, so we used to take our cars down these beaten up tracks and almost every time you’d get bogged., taking three or four guys to push you out of the bog and more often than not also taking out a muffler or staking a tyre. About the only car that could handle the track trouble free was the old reliable Volkswagen Beetle, they would go anywhere and looked a sight with six 9 or 10-foot mals strapped to the roof.
L-R. Robert ‘Puppy Dog’ Paton, Bernie Huddle, Jim Keenan & Ian ‘Billy Bunter’ Todman.
An unsealed road was constructed to Injidup Bay in the early 1960s.
Bill Gibson – In the 60s I think the road surface and car park was gravel as I remember corrugations on the drive in and out. When the Rangers kicked us out of Yallingup beach car park, we camped under the melaleuca trees near Injidup car park. A rough dirt track to Injidup Point started up the hill from where we camped.
Arty Sherburn and his mates in Bruce Brown’s FC Holden.
The Injidup Bay car park was still unsealed in 1971.
Jeff ‘Re’ Marshall’s Holden panel van is on the left and George Simpson’s Valiant ute is on the right.
The Injidup Bay car park was sealed by 1975.
Tony Harbison’s & Kevin Merifield’s comments were sourced from the Surfing Down South book published 2014.
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