This post is based on a SDS blog titled Prive’s Happy Snaps posted 2 January 2016. It is back by popular demand, bigger and better, Prive’s World contains additional stories and photos.
Dunsborough retiree Ian ‘Prive’ Morris first moved to the South West in 1972. He now spends his days surfing & fishing in Southwest and Northwest waters.
Origin of Nickname
Ian ‘Prive’ Morris.In 1970 I was conscripted into the army to go and fight the war in Vietnam. Luckily, I had a motor bike accident and burnt two holes in my right leg just above the ankle, before they could send me to the Puckapunyal base training camp. I couldn’t wear boots or gaiters because of the burns and spent two months in South Perth Community Hospital nursing my leg and then six months at Karrakatta Army headquarters convalescing. During that time, I was going surfing on weekends to Yalls with my army haircut and jungle greens, hence the nickname ‘Prive’. I rode my Harley motor bike until my 2nd accident in 2000.
2000s Prive in body harness with his Harley motor bike in Dunsborough after his #2 bike accident. Photo Loz SmithRIP.
SCARBOROUGH
1969 Scarborough social function. Prive with Pam Bedford (far right) and Bobby Burns, Darryl Henry and older brother John, girls unknown. Photo Prive.1971 Scarborough Party goers include John Paterson, Boona, Pup, Mark Waller & others. Photo Prive.
In 1973 I was living in Ewen St Scarborough with Cordingley shaper Steve ‘Blue’ Nicholson. I purchased a Fiat 125 sedan thinking I would make a killing on the resale, but I didn’t 😊. Im not sure why Micko & Rex were with Blue & I that day in Scarborough (see photo below). We were all involved in building Micko’s ferro cement yacht in Maylands in 1974, I had shares in the yacht at that time.
1973 Prive’s dark blue Fiat 125 sedan in Scarborough Beach Rd, Scarborough. Photo Peter Mac. L-R Steve ‘Blue’ Nicholson, Prive, ‘Micko’ Gracie & Rex Biddle looking resplendent in corduroy flares & thongs. 1980 Bob Monkman & Jim King enjoying a cleansing ale at Bruce’s King’s wedding reception held at White Sands Hotel Scarborough.Prive was there somewhere! Photographer unknown.
SOUTH WEST
I moved down south in 1972 and lived with Blue, Sue and Didee in a house named Wildcroft on Caves Rd and worked as a bricklayer.
1972 Weekends at Yallingup. Sharon Day and Blue Nicholson leaning on Prive’s blue HR panel van after another weekend trip to Yalls.Photo Prive.1972 Weekends at Yallingup. Mark Rudeberg, Sharon Day, Blue Nicholson, Bruce King and Peter McDonald crouching behind car door.Photo Prive. 1975 New Years eve party at Hideaway Homes Yallingup. Prive (centre) with Coral and Tony Harbison Photo Prive1975 Yallingup Hill Lance Bevan, ‘Prive’ & Ross ‘Madhu’ Anderson at Peter Dyson’s place. Photo Andy Jones1970s Prive and Blue Nicholson in Dunsborough with two large skippy caught at the Gallows surf break. Photo Helen Scenery.
We were building John ‘Dandaragan’ Robinson’s house on Wardenup Crescent Yalls and a stray dog found our brick laying team. We called him Blackie cos’ he was black.
We used to throw bricks into trees and Blackie would climb the tree – amazing like – it’s a rare dog that climbs trees – and bring the brick back down. Blackie entertained us during smokos…and brickies need entertainment!
1970s Prive’s dog Blackie chasing a brick up a tree at Yalls. Photo Prive.1975 Northcliffe Peter Dyson’s property. Hans Kopp, ‘Prive’ & Peter McDonald. Photo Peter Mac1976 Fancy dress party on Yallingup hill. Robbo (Marilyn?), Peter Dyson (Tiger) & Prive (Phantom). Photo Prive.1978 Prive at Bunbury party. Photo Peter Mac.2009 Prive test riding Hoffa ‘Coke Bottle’ surfboard at Yalls. Photo Jim King.2011 Unveiling of Pioneer Surfer statue at Yalls. Prive, Mark ‘Hillsy’ Hills & Arns Smith. Photo Bruce King2012 Prive SUPing with migrating whaleat Meelup. Photo Bruce King2014 Yallingup Malibu Classic (Yal Mal). Tony Smith, Prive, Peter Mac & Bruce King outside the former Shaana Café at Yallingup Beach. Photo Loz SmithRIP.
In 1986 Ian ‘Prive’ Morris’s house on Yallingup hill won an Award in Homes & Living Magazine.
I hand cleaned 50,000 bricks obtained from the original Busselton Hospital to build the house. The Oregan framed windows came from the Perpetual Trustees Building in Perth Centro and Ron ‘Gremmo’ Ellis made the window sashes to fit. The ceiling was made from Tuart wood from the old Tuart Forrest yard at Ludlow. Peter Mac and I bought 10 kilometres of tuart boards for 3 cents per metre when the Government closed the timber mill. I purchased the block on Hammond Road for $10,000 in the late 70s.
2015 Prive at Yalls with a framed print of his Award-Winning home article in Homes & Living Mag. Photo Bruce King.2019 Prive being short sheeted by Claire Edwards at Yallingup. Photo Bruce King.2019 Motley crew Yallingup. L-R. Prive with Winnie RIP, Jim King, Loz Smith RIP, Barry Day & Stewart Bettenay.Photo Bruce King.
SURF TRAVEL
In 1975 I went on a surf trip with the late Graham ‘Guru’ Leslie to Bali, we stayed in losmen Kamala Inda in Kuta and then travelled overland to Thailand. In Thailand Guru got really, really sick with gastro. He was a big bloke, but became so,so skinny. To make things worse, thieves stole everything he owned…bar the undies he was wearing. His father got him back to Oz.
I then went to Sri Lanka, surfing again and caught up with Mark Moody, Bob and Alan Mckay and Steve Ingliss in Hikkadua on the west coast, then when the season changed went to Arugum Bay on the east coast for about 5 months..great holiday 😊
Bali – Kuta
1975 Guru in Bali with original family that ran Komala Indah Losmens. “I was behind the camera of course!” Photo Prive.
Sri Lanka – Hikkadua & Arugum Bay
1976 Skinny Prive in Sri Lanka sitting in Raja’s Tea shop (local black magic doctor) at Arugum Bay between surfs. That was the only palm shack at the point, our hang spot drinking Chi and eating sweet pumpkin and coconut curry, because there was nothing else but bananas!
1976 Prive dining in Raja’s Tea shop at Arugum Bay. Privepic.
This picture of a board quiver in Sri Lanka is history, as the 3rd board from left is my 7’6” Cordingley. I left it there for kids to learn on and possibly return to Sri Lanka. It didn’t happen, but Tony Hinde (who started Pasta Point surf camp in Maldives) took the board and it became his favourite. When I saw Tony in the Maldives in 2010, he said “look at the board sitting on the roof rafters in the restaurant, that yours.”…by then it was a relic, being 35 years old.
1976 surfboard quiver in Sri Lanka. Prive’s 7’6” Cordingley board is 3rd from the left. Prive pic.
Queensland – Gold Coast
1980s Gold Coast Mal Function Midget Farrelly RIP, Peter Dunn, Jack Eden, Tim Bahen & Prive. Photographer unknown.
North West – Exmouth
Prive with Golden Trevelly in Exmouth.Prive with a Dart fish in Exmouth.Shark attack on Spangled Emperor in Exmouth…check the size of munched up body, it’s still over legal size!Prive weaves old cray ropes into beautiful mats in Exmouth😊.Prive’s travel buddyWinnie RIP sharing holiday accommodation in Exmouth.
This post is based on a SDS blog titled Prive’s Happy Snaps posted 2 January 2016. It is back by popular demand, bigger and better, Prive’s World contains additional stories and photos.
Dunsborough retiree Ian ‘Prive’ Morris first moved to the South West in 1972. He now spends his days surfing & fishing in Southwest and Northwest waters.
Origin of Nickname
Ian ‘Prive’ Morris. In 1970 I was conscripted into the army to go and fight the war in Vietnam. Luckily, I had a motor bike accident and burnt two holes in my right leg just above the ankle, before they could send me to the Puckapunyal base training camp. I couldn’t wear boots or gaiters because of the burns and spent two months in South Perth Community Hospital nursing my leg and then six months at Karrakatta Army headquarters convalescing. During that time, I was going surfing on weekends to Yalls with my army haircut and jungle greens, hence the nickname ‘Prive’. I rode my Harley motor bike until my 2nd accident in 2000.
SCARBOROUGH
In 1973 I was living in Ewen St Scarborough with Cordingley shaper Steve ‘Blue’ Nicholson. I purchased a Fiat 125 sedan thinking I would make a killing on the resale, but I didn’t 😊. Im not sure why Micko & Rex were with Blue & I that day in Scarborough (see photo below). We were all involved in building Micko’s ferro cement yacht in Maylands in 1974, I had shares in the yacht at that time.
L-R Steve ‘Blue’ Nicholson, Prive, ‘Micko’ Gracie & Rex Biddle looking resplendent in corduroy flares & thongs.
SOUTH WEST
I moved down south in 1972 and lived with Blue, Sue and Didee in a house named Wildcroft on Caves Rd and worked as a bricklayer.
We were building John ‘Dandaragan’ Robinson’s house on Wardenup Crescent Yalls and a stray dog found our brick laying team. We called him Blackie cos’ he was black.
We used to throw bricks into trees and Blackie would climb the tree – amazing like – it’s a rare dog that climbs trees – and bring the brick back down. Blackie entertained us during smokos…and brickies need entertainment!
In 1986 Ian ‘Prive’ Morris’s house on Yallingup hill won an Award in Homes & Living Magazine.
I hand cleaned 50,000 bricks obtained from the original Busselton Hospital to build the house. The Oregan framed windows came from the Perpetual Trustees Building in Perth Centro and Ron ‘Gremmo’ Ellis made the window sashes to fit. The ceiling was made from Tuart wood from the old Tuart Forrest yard at Ludlow. Peter Mac and I bought 10 kilometres of tuart boards for 3 cents per metre when the Government closed the timber mill. I purchased the block on Hammond Road for $10,000 in the late 70s.
SURF TRAVEL
In 1975 I went on a surf trip with the late Graham ‘Guru’ Leslie to Bali, we stayed in losmen Kamala Inda in Kuta and then travelled overland to Thailand. In Thailand Guru got really, really sick with gastro. He was a big bloke, but became so,so skinny. To make things worse, thieves stole everything he owned…bar the undies he was wearing. His father got him back to Oz.
I then went to Sri Lanka, surfing again and caught up with Mark Moody, Bob and Alan Mckay and Steve Ingliss in Hikkadua on the west coast, then when the season changed went to Arugum Bay on the east coast for about 5 months..great holiday 😊
Bali – Kuta
Sri Lanka – Hikkadua & Arugum Bay
1976 Skinny Prive in Sri Lanka sitting in Raja’s Tea shop (local black magic doctor) at Arugum Bay between surfs. That was the only palm shack at the point, our hang spot drinking Chi and eating sweet pumpkin and coconut curry, because there was nothing else but bananas!
This picture of a board quiver in Sri Lanka is history, as the 3rd board from left is my 7’6” Cordingley. I left it there for kids to learn on and possibly return to Sri Lanka. It didn’t happen, but Tony Hinde (who started Pasta Point surf camp in Maldives) took the board and it became his favourite. When I saw Tony in the Maldives in 2010, he said “look at the board sitting on the roof rafters in the restaurant, that yours.”…by then it was a relic, being 35 years old.
Queensland – Gold Coast
North West – Exmouth
Thanks Prive for sharing your stories and photos.
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