25/11/11 Pacific Dreams opened their new Darby Street Newcastle surf shop.
The shop is full of new boards, some second hand ones and a lot of surf gear.
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One of the features in the shop is a huge skylight highlighting 4 large surf photos. This one I took around 1975 of Roy lee and Martin Littlewood working together in a lantana covered chook shed at Redhead.
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PD owners Roy and Jan join the boys Ronnie and Bidsar in celebrating some hard work getting it all together.
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Roy enjoys a beer with Ronnie Rudder and board maker Peter McCabe.
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The girls in front of the huge amount of surf gear on offer.
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The PD boys enjoying a few beers.
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Chris and Megan Totterman with Roy in front of the wall of photos Chris worked hard in creating.
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Shane and Ronnie maybe trying to tell me there is something up on the roof.
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A rare trip in front of the camera Roy and Crow. We went to school together and started surfing together around 1964.
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Roy has a couple of beers literally, just remember Roy you got to get up early and get this shop up and running.
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A cloudy Saturday morning, but the clouds were a little bit fancy. Redhead Saturday 12/11/2011.
Redhead Beach Clouds 30-10-11
Early Sunday Morning 30/10/11 Redhead surf check showed an overcast day coming, but within seconds the sun seared a hole in the clouds and it came out sunny.
Redhead Beach sunrise 12-11-11
Redhead Surf 6/11/2011
Redhead surf 6-11-11
Redhead boardriders comp 5/11/2011
Redhead Boardriders comp 5-11-11
Nobbys Beach 12/11/2011 a fully loaded ship exits the harbour while kite surfers have a ball in the stiff North Easter and clear water.
Nobbys Ship & Kiteboards 12-11-11
Newcastle Harbour 12/11/11. 3 tugs make their way back home after pushing another loaded ship out to sea.
Newcastle Tugs 12-11-11
Nobbys Beach 12/11/11. A very idyllic Beach Volleyball competition venue.
Nobbys Beach Volleyball 12-11-11
Sandy’s Chooks. 3 Broody chooks, on strike having a sit in November 2011.
3 broody chooks 30-10-11
Saturday 5/11/11 a heavy 2 metre swell hitting Newcastle and a poor guy gets swept out of the Bogey Hole by a large set and is in rough water with no way back in. The situation was filmed by a visitor to Newcastle and here are some stills of the situation unfolding.
An unlucky swimmer gets washed into some rough water at the Bogey Hole.
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Lucky he keeps a cool head and Newcastle Lifesaver Mick Body comes up on the Quad and makes his way down to the rock ledge. Mick signals to the guy to go further out.
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Mick dives in with the torpedo tube just in time to cop a set coming.
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Mick makes his way out through some heavy going.
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Mick gets close when the heaviest wave comes.
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No more images available. Mick got to the swimmer, the Jet Ski launched out from Nobby’s arrived soon after and takes them back to Newcastle Beach. A well coordinated rescue which showed some strength and courage and lucky the guy was a strong swimmer and kept his cool.