Murray d’Arcy, one of the founding members of the North End Board Club in Scarborough, was passionate about photography and captured these classic Yallingup camping photographs in 1963.
In the 60s, Yallingup pioneers the Hammond family built Surfside Tea Rooms on north side of the unsealed beach car park and Holiday shacks on Yallingup hill. Besides the Hammond shacks, there was little holiday accommodation available to visiting surfers or holiday makers. It was before Caravan Parks (Beach & Caves) and Hideaway Homes were developed in the 70s.
Visiting surfers slept in cars and hammocks strung up under the Melaleuca trees on the beach front.
Easter 1963 photographer/surfer Murray d’Arcy with camp gear and Malibu surfboards in Yallingup car park. Murray d’Arcy pic.
Murray Smith. “It is a task for old eyes and I would be guessing, but I do remember Hawke Bros were starting to make boards for a few of the boys, the board with the blue stripe reminds me of possible a Barry Bennett, I remember a few of the guys bringing them over from Sydney at different times, a lot of boards at the time had full white opaque finishes because the quality of the foam core was not good, holes etc and coloured white to disguised the blemishes in the foam.”
January 1963 Murray D’Arcy’s campsite set up under melaleuca trees at Yallingup Beach. Photo Murray d’Arcy.
Easter 1963 surfers with Morris Minor sedan loaded with Malibu surfboards at Yallingup car park. Murray d’Arcy pic. L-R Alex ‘Zac’ Kochanowitsch on the left with hands in pockets and John Bartle with arm in car window, others unidentified.
Special thanks to Jim Breadsell, a fellow North End Board Club member from the 1960s, for providing Murray d’Arcy’s collection of vintage surf images.
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