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DIMENSIONS: All prints are supplied in matts and backed. Dimensions listed below are the overall size of the matt.

IMAGE SIZE: 40 x 60 cm except for prints cropped to a more panoramic format (see Ted Spencer at Ti Tree, A wave at Spooky, The point before dawn and several others) that vary in height.

PLEASE NOTE: All Giclée prints are done on demand, so there may be a delay of up to two weeks on delivery.

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<p>Situated on the Great Australian Bight, west of Ceduna, Cactus was the first of the remote locations to be surfed regularly and to have a community grow up around it.</p>
Chris was one of the shapers at Wilderness Surfboards that operated out of an old farmhouse a few kilometres inland at Palmers Channel.
<p>Given the right swell direction and wind conditions, Spooky can be a great wave. Grant was there in the early 1970s when it was.</p>
<p>Bob McTavish at Point Cartwright in Queensland. For a long time during the early 1960s, the dominant aesthetic of surfing had been to pose (arching being a bonus) like one of the ancient Hawaiians - having a setting sun in the background was another plus. Nat Young and McTavish threw this nostalgia aside with an aggressive attack...few other pictures summed up their approach to 'complete involvement' better than this one.</p>
<p>Delightful small waves breaking on sand that Noosa hasn’t experienced in decades.</p>
Mark Campbell was a local kid who surfed Spooky as well as many of the imports with far bigger reputations. His concentration wasn't lacking either.
<p>In 1976, on the North Shore of Oahu, Mark Richards was regarded by many as the stand-out surfer of the winter. He liked the break at Haleiwa - "it's big, always coming at you, but you can hot-dog it". He also liked it because it was predominantly a 'local' place, and unlike some of the Australians that year, he got along with the Hawaiians.</p>
<p>The image of waves breaking along points was something seen in magazines rather than a part of personal experience. Gradually as surfers began to explore the coastline they discovered quite a few home-grown examples. National Park was among the very best.</p>
Nat at Rights and Lefts just before the World Championships in San Diego. This picture was never published, but very similar shots were run in <em>Surfer</em> magazine with the article 'We're tops now' in 1967. What is interesting about the photograph are details that, at the time, were utterly unremarkable, but which define the time...someone knee-paddling; George Greenough with one of his Velo spoon-boards; Nat riding the board he called 'Sam'... it's a snapshot of a little piece of surfing history in-the-making.
Footage of this swell in  <em>The Hot Generation</em> ‘helped introduce the surfing world to the high-performance possibilities of the shortboard’ – Matt Warshaw, <em>The Encyclopedia of Surfing</em>.
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