70s – Page 57 – Surfing Down South

1971 Cactus surf trip by Mal Leckie

Update: Added Mal Leckie’s thongs on a star picket tale 11 March 2017. Late in 1971 I drove across from WA to Phillip…

Chuck Morton-Stewart started out as a grommet on Scarborough Beach in the mid-1960s and later in his national TV persona as ‘Charles Stewart’…

Geoff Culmsee recorded his SW memoirs for the Surfing Down South book published by Margaret River Press in 2014. Excerpts from these memoirs…

**Update 13 January 2021** Added 1981 Bali Who pro contest results Oceans Surf Shop Oceans Surf Shop in Perth City sponsored the Bali…

Queensland surfer Mark Favell made his first trip to WA with Jeff Carroll and his brother Steve in the early 70s. The lads…