Peter ‘Doc’ Docherty surfing innovator
Peter ‘Doc’ Docherty (age 13) started riding plywood ‘Toothpick’ surfboards at City Beach in 1958. Doc surfed metro, Lancelin & Southwest beaches and…
1960s Paddle Thru Perth revisited
This blog was originally posted 2 Dec 2020. This version has been reformatted and contains video footage of the 1968 event. In the…
A cut-throat wave by the late Dave Williams
Guillotines is a popular surf break north of Gracetown in the Southwest. The surf break was discovered and named by the late Dave…
Surfing pioneer Barry ‘Joe’ King
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…
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