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<i>Bob McTavish and the '48 Holden, Noosa<i> 1966  Unframed price - $650 Kodak Endura print The romance of travelling the major surf breaks of the east coast of Australia in a beaten-up old Holden was a real one. There were few surfers outside the capital cities as not everyone had a car. Places lik <i>Nat Young, bottom turn, Honolua Bay<i> 1967  Unframed price - $475 Kodak Endura print At Honolua Bay in late 1967, Nat and Bob McTavish  turned easily and repeatedly from trough to crest in a high-performance style that set a precedent for virtually all surfing that followed . (Matt Warshaw - <i> <i>Bob McTavish at Hololua Bay<i> 1967  Unframed price - $475 Kodak Endura print Bob on his nine-foot V-bottom board at Honolua, in a session that became the finale of Paul Witzig's film <i>The Hot Generation<i> and which  helped introduce the surfing world to the high-performance possibilities of t <i>Fresh mullet<i> <i>c<i>. 1972  Unframed price - $475 Kodak Endura print At Angourie in the early 70s the sandy track down to the point ran straight ahead from the car park, and wound though the banksia trees to the rocks north of the beach. There was an older man called Alex who was some sort of <i>A wave at Matakana Island, NZ<i> 1975  Unframed price - $475 Kodak Endura print On a not-especially-wonderful day at Matakana there was this one, beautiful, just-about-perfect wave.

Bob McTavish and the '48 Holden, Noosa - 1966
Edition of 450 - 62 x 80 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price - $650

Nat Young, bottom turn, Honolua Bay - 1967
Edition of 100 - 62 x 80 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price - $475

Bob McTavish at Hololua Bay - 1967
Edition of 100 - 62 x 80 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price - $475

Fresh mullet - c. 1972
Edition of 100 - 62 x 80 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price - $475

A wave at Matakana Island, NZ - 1975
Edition of 100 - 62 x 80 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price - $475

<i>Freckles at Spooky<i> 1973  Unframed price - $475 Kodak Endura print A picture that made the cover of <i>Tracks<i> in July 1973.

It's an image that has always reminded me of the Japanese artist Hokosai's wave...mostly by the way the white water seems suspended in air...and helped no doubt by t

<i>Arcadia<i> 1969  Unframed price - $475 Kodak Endura print The hills behind Byron Bay are some of the most lovely coastal country you find anywhere. It's lush because of the rainfall and there is the beautiful backdrop of the coastal range. Within a few kilometres are the breaks of Byron itself, B

<i>Ted Spencer at Ti Tree<i> mid-1960s  Unframed price - $475 Kodak Endura print Ted was in the group of surfers who benefited immediately from the drop in length of surfboards and, with Wayne Lynch, set new standards in performance small-wave surfing.

<i>Bells Beach<i> 1977  Unframed price - $475 Kodak Endura print The attraction of a line of waves wrapping onto the coast reaches beyond surfers. It's akin to staring into an open fire - mesmerising, infinitely variable and often very beautiful.

<i>Bob McTavish at National Park<i> 1966  Unframed price - $475 Kodak Endura print A picture that was never published in the 1960s became a cover for <i>Australian Longboarding<i> 40 years later. It shows a confident McTavish in complete control - his body and board unified on a windy Noosa wave.

Freckles at Spooky - 1973
Edition of 100 - 82 x 60.5 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price - $475

Arcadia - 1969
Edition of 100 - 62 x 80 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price - $475

Ted Spencer at Ti Tree - mid-1960s
Edition of 100 - 62 x 80 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price - $475

Bells Beach - 1977
Edition of 100 - 62 x 80 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price - $475

Bob McTavish at National Park - 1966
Edition of 100 - 82 x 60.5 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price - $475

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

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