(In other words – in the desert – The sun comes up; The sun goes down.) Just a few more shots. I’ve got anything you have sent before today which is Tuesday March 27th. I’m 66 in four days. Please send money. PO Box 82, Dunwich, 4183. It’ll be forwarded to the secret desert hideaway. [...]
Jun 18, 2012 | Categories: The Noughties | Tags: archive, Aussie, Australia, beach, blog, Bob Ward, Cactus, Castles, Caves, Desert, Desert Diary, Diary, history, IOW, Isle of Wight, Ozzie, Ozzy, people, photo, photographs, portrait, Rob Ward, SA, South Australia, stoked, surf, Surf Trip, surfboard, Surfer, surfing, swell, The Noughties, waves, wetsuit, wightsurfhistory | Leave A Comment »
In a reflective mood This is a toilet – 2 trunkated telegraph poles support the roof structure, they and all the interior fitting are secured to a concrete floor and the cement and sandstone boulders lead in a spiral to a well ventilated flushing loo. Ron says the (?8) loos with their running water, piped [...]
Jun 18, 2012 | Categories: The Noughties | Tags: Ant, archive, Aussie, Australia, beach, blog, Bob Ward, Cactus, Castles, Caves, Desert, Desert Diary, Diary, Gun, history, IOW, Isle of Wight, Ozzie, Ozzy, people, photo, photographs, portrait, quad, Rob Ward, SA, Scorpion, South Australia, stoked, surf, Surf Trip, surfboard, Surfer, surfing, swell, The Noughties, waves, wetsuit, wightsurfhistory | Leave A Comment »
Rob has now made it down to Cactus but before he left I asked him how he was getting on with his preperations for the trip and about the early days of surfing cactus during the 1970′s and if he ever met Paul Witzig (Surf movie maker during the 70′s) who bought up alot of [...]
Mar 30, 2012 | Categories: Surfer Profiles, The Seventies | Tags: 1969, 1970's, 1972 Bells Beach, 70's, Amaerican, Angourie, archive, Aussie Pipe, Australia, Australian, beach, blog, Cactus, Caves, Dennis Conquist, Desert Diary, Evolution, Frank Pithers, Gerry Lopez, Hawaiin Pipe, history, Howard Owen, IOW, Isle of Wight, Jack O'Neill, John Witzig, leg rope, Magaret River, Mark Warren, Narrabeen, New Zealand, Orinoco Flo, Paul Witzig, Point Sinclair, Reno, Reno Abellira, Rob Ward, Rolling Home, Santa Cruz, shark, Simon Anderson, Smiths, South Afican, stoked, surf, surf magazine, Surf Trip, surfboard, Surfer, surfing, swell, Sydney, Terry Fitzgerald, The Noughties, Tom Hoye, Tracks, Tracks magazine, Waimea, waves, Wayne Lynch, wightsurfhistory | 1 Comment »