len dibben – Page 5 – Surfing Down South

Surfing Rotto in the 60s **update

Surfing at Rottnest Island has been a popular pastime since the mid-50s. By the mid-60s Cottesloe surfers were making regular surf trips to…

In the 1950s Cottesloe Beach and the reefs south of Cottesloe with long rolling waves were popular surfing venues for metro surfers riding…

By the mid 1960s competitive surfing and surfboard manufacturer’s Surf Teams were a feature of the WA surf scene. Surf Teams consisted of…

Updated 20 Oct 2017 to include images of Trevor’s 1970 surf column in Sunday Times and his 2006 Memoriam. In the late 60s…

In the early 1970s Mandurah surfer Chris ‘Feggsey’ Fullston was a team rider for Len Dibben (rode a wide Bonzer) and Cordingleys before…