Jim McFarlane – Surfing Down South

70s

1977 Big Boxing Day surf rescue at Yallingup

Jim McFarlane (retired) lives at Yallingup with his wife Margaret. They live in the house they built on the hill 1973-75. Jim is…

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Three Bears surf break & track in the 80s

In August 1971 surfers George Simpson, Mick Pearce & Mark Rudenberg discovered Three Bears surf break at Kabbijgup Beach. The boys had seen…

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Jim McFarlane’s 1960s SW surfing recollections

Jim McFarlane lives at Yallingup and is a veteran South West surfer. These are Jim’s recollections of surfing in the SW in the…

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Early days on Yallingup Hill

Author Sue-Lyn Aldrian-Moyle made the following observation in her Surfing Down South book (2014). Sue-Lyn: “Yallingup has changed a lot since the 1950s,…

70s photographs

1972 Old dirt track to Bears

1972 Gregory ‘Egory’ McDonald, Bruce Elliot & Tom Blaxell with Blaxell Surfboards panel van on the dirt track between Yallingup & Bears. CALM…

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1977 Big Boxing Day surf rescue at Yallingup

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Three Bears surf break & track in the 80s

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Jim McFarlane’s 1960s SW surfing recollections

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Early days on Yallingup Hill

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1972 Old dirt track to Bears

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