Tag: surfing down south

70s photographs

Surfing in the 70s

In the early 70s my brother Bruce King lived in Scarborough and was a regular ‘Weekend Warrior’ Down South (same as Bill Gibson,…

1900s photographs

Bodysurfing Down South

Keen metro bodysurfers surfed Down South in the 60-80s. They used homemade marine ply hand boards, paddles and body/belly boards to enhance their…

2011 photographs

Cape Naturaliste

In 1801, the French navigator Nicolas Baudin stopped at Cape Naturaliste on 30 May during his exploration of Australia. The French were mapping…

60s photographs

1967 Weekend Down South

Scarborough surfer Colleen Burke surfed Metro and Down South beaches in the 1960s and luckily took snaps of her adventures. These 1967 holiday…