Surfing Rotto in the 50s.
Surfing at Rottnest Island has been a popular pastime since the mid-50s. Cottesloe surfers made the maiden voyage to Rotto by surfboard. Mark…
1950s Vintage Yallingup Beach – Can you identify the people on the beach?
Pioneer surfer/photographer John ‘Budgie’ Budge captured this image of surfers chatting on Yallingup Beach in the 50’s. Bernie Huddle is the tall fellow…
1958 Don Bancroft – Surfer/Jazz Musician
Pioneer surfers visiting the Yallingup region in the late 50s & early 60s were lucky to have talented jazz musician Don Bancroft in…
1957 Empty Yallingup Line-up
Pioneer surfer/photographer John ‘Budgie’ Budge took this photo of an empty line-up at Yallingup Main Break on a sunny weekend in 1957. There…
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