Jim King

2013

Memories from 10 years ago – 2013 Shallows surf break

There was a time in the distant past when you could surf uncrowded waves at Shallows surf break Yallingup during the working week…

Southwest surfing pioneer Barry ‘Joe’ King was multi-skilled. His mates asked if he was ‘jo-king’ and the nickname stuck in the fifties Joe…

Jacko Surfboards John Jakovich started making his boards as a seventeen-year-old in the backyard shed of his parent’s house in South Perth. As…

City Beach board riders used the City Beach Tea Rooms (located at the south end of former coastal road) as their unofficial headquarters…

The small coastal town of Gracetown in Cowaramup Bay was surveyed in 1961 and gazetted in 1963 along with its first land sale.…