Surfboard riders began surfing Injidup Bay in 1957 and ventured out to the Point in the early 1960s.
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 bogged on the dirt track to Injidup Bay. Photo courtesy of Jim Keenan
L-R. Robert ‘Puppy Dog’ Paton, Bernie Huddle, Jim Keenan & Ian ‘Billy Bunter’ Todman.
A gravel road leading to the Injidup car park was constructed in the 1960s and subsequently sealed with bitumen in the mid-1970s.
Bill Gibson – In the 1960s 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.
Injidup Point
1964 Arty Sherburn and friends in Bruce Brown’s FC Holden, checking the surf from the dirt track to Injidup Point. Photo Arthur Sherburn RIP.
1966 Injidup Point line-up. Photo Greg Woodward.
Mick Layzell. “This is my favourite pic of the West Coast Surf Shop crew. The Indijup Point track was boggy, so we loaded all the boards on my Holden wagon and everybody ran along behind to push in case we got bogged. This was in the early days when Bob Gairdner was working from his parent’s shed. The boards are heavy V tails with very flexi-fins.”
1967 West Coast crew with Mick’s Holden wagon on Injidup Point track. Photo Mick Layzell.
Top L-R. is Jerry Smith, Dave Anderson, John Rousall and Mal Jones on the tailgate.
Bottom L-R. Bob Gairdner, Ian Cairns, Eddy Warner, Boz Cummins and Cookie.
Late 60s Mick Layzell bottom turn on West Coast mini-mal at Indijup Point. Photo Mick Layzell
1970 The late Rick Lobe surfing Injidup Point. Image courtesy Country Surf Mag #1.
1972 Len Dibben (in Hawaiian shirt) modelling Dibben Surfboards surf wear with others at Injidup Point. Photo Ric Chan.
1970s Leaving Injidup Point at dusk. Ric Chan pic.
1979 Bogged 4WD van Injidup bay. Photo Ric Chan.
1980 windy line-up Injidup Point. Photo Peter Matulich RIP.
1981 Bogged Holden sedan Injidup Point. Photo Ric Chan.
Thank you to the photo contributors.
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