Redhead 20/11/11 Early morning sea fog during Redhead SLSC Proficiency.
Redhead sea mist 20-11-11
Saturday 26/11/11 The wind started as onshore then swung offshore and cleaned up the surf. Redhead lineup.
Redhead surf 26-11-11
Redhead surfer dogging thru behind the tower.
Redhead surfer 1 26-11-11
Redhead Surfer inside a nice left
Redhead surfer 26-11-11
Redhead body boarder on a nice clean one.
Redhead Bodyboarder 26-11-11
Redhead surfer on one starting to wall up.
Redhead surfer 3 26-11-11
Monday 5/12/11
A week of rain pushed lots of fresh water out to sea, then a raging southerly whipped it up to make some serious froth. Redhead shark tower.
Redhead foam 1 5-12-11
The foam was pushed into the Redhead Bluff painting it white.
Redhead foam 2 5-12-11
A close up of the thick goo whipped up by wind on fresh water, maybe with some additives the compliments of 20th century living.
Redhead foam 3 5-12-11
Blacksmiths same day the other end of the beach, clean as.
Blacksmiths 5-12-11
Blacksmiths, minutes later than the sunny shot above, a rain cloud parts and sun shines through onto the water.
Blacksmiths sun through clouds 5-12-11
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.
Pacific Dreams 1
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.
Pacific Dreams 2
PD owners Roy and Jan join the boys Ronnie and Bidsar in celebrating some hard work getting it all together.
Pacific Dreams 3
Roy enjoys a beer with Ronnie Rudder and board maker Peter McCabe.
Check out Grubby’s boards on web site www.petermccabesurfboards.com.au
Pacific Dreams 4
The girls in front of the huge amount of surf gear on offer.
Pacific Dreams 5
The PD boys enjoying a few beers.
Pacific Dreams 6
Chris and Megan Totterman with Roy in front of the wall of photos Chris worked hard in creating.
Pacific Dreams 7
Shane and Ronnie maybe trying to tell me there is something up on the roof.
Pacific Dreams 8
A rare trip in front of the camera Roy and Crow. We went to school together and started surfing together around 1964.
Pacific Dreams 9
Roy has a couple of beers literally, just remember Roy you got to get up early and get this shop up and running.
Pacific Dreams 10
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.
surf rescue1
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.
surf rescue2
Mick dives in with the torpedo tube just in time to cop a set coming.
surf rescue3
Mick makes his way out through some heavy going.
surf rescue4
Mick gets close when the heaviest wave comes.
Surf Rescue5
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.
Redhead Beach early morning 25/10/11
Redhead bluff 25-10-11
Redhead surfer Mark Hancock 24/10/11
Redhead Mark Hancock 24-10-11
Redhead Boardriders Club Contest 8/10/11
Redhead Boardriders Club Comp 08-10-11
Galahs in the dunes Redhead 16/10/11 Real ones for a change.
Redhead Galahs 16-10-11
Redhead 24/10/11 Early next morning the Beach Cleaner smoothes away the traces of a busy Sunday.
Redhead Beach cleaner 24-10-11
Redhead Bluff 25/10/11 Early morning.
Redhead Bluff 25-10-11
Redhead Bodyboarder on the wave of the day 8/10/11
Redhead body boarder 08-10-11
Redhead surfer 24/10/11
Redhead surfer 24-10-11
Redhead 26/10/11 The usually clean surf was “muddied” up by quick upwelling southerly swell, the water was brown and grody to the max.
Redhead dirty surf 26-10-11
Redhead dirty surf 26-10-11
Redhead dirty surf 2 26-10-11
Dudley Beach 25/6/11
Dudley Beach 25-6-11
Newcastle Big winter swell 13/7/11
Newcastle Beach Big and cold 13-7-11
Newcastle Harbour Tug 14/6/11
Newcastle Harbour Tug 14-6-11
Blacksmiths Surfer 4/6/11
Blacksmiths Surfer 4-6-11
Redhead surfer 4/6/11
Redhead Surfer 4-6-11
Redhead Surfer 2 4/6/11
Redhead Surfer 2 4-6-11
Newcastle Beach Big surf close up 14/7/11
Newcastle Beach big surf close up 14-7-11
Redhead Bluff up close 10/6/11
Redhead Bluff 10-6-11
Redhead Beach early morning right hander 14/10/11
Redhead Beach early morning right hander 14-10-11
Saturday morning 22/10/11 around 7:30 am.
The surf was very ordinary at 2 foot with a light onshore starting up, but it was the best place to be to watch the local dolphins throw a party. Dozens of dolphins gathered just outside the break in what appeared to be an introduction of the new young calves to the extended dolphin clan. The young ones were accompanied by adults as they cruised around and around, meanwhile the young adults cavorted further out getting some serious air. They threw some awsome stale fish moves but without grabbing a rail. They stayed for almost an hour in the same area while the few surfers out watched in awe a few metres away.
Another weekend of torential rain, at least the footy finals are on.
2/10/11 Another Sunday surf check you don’t get out of the car for.
Redhead Beach bad weather 2-10-11
Saturday early Redhead surfer 1/10/11
Redhead surfer 1-10-11
Redhead Surf 1/10/11 A left from behind the shark tower.
Redhead surf 2 1-10-11
Redhead Surf 1/10/11 A right down the beach a bit.
Redhead surf 1-10-11
The swell jumped up quick and this one had the guys scrambling for cover.
Redhead surf 3 1-10-11
Jimmy Lewis HP98
Jimmy Lewis HP98
Behind the scences at the beach girl contest Rehead 1985
Redhead Beach Beauty contest 1985
Arial view from out of a Cessna Redhead Beach around 1978
Arial view Redhead Beach 1988
A 2 headed choock? No just a fluke photo – 2 of Sandy’s chooks 1/10/11
2 headed chook 1-10-11
Sunday morning cold wet and windy. Didn’t get out of the car. Redhead Beach wet and windy Sunday 25/9/11.
Redhead Rainy day 25-09-11
The wind was gale force from the West/South West Redhead Beach 20/9/11
Redhead windy day 20-09-11
Redhead Little Beach surfer 27/9/11
Redhead surfer 27-09-11
Redhead Little Beach Body Boarder 27/9/11
Redhead Body Boarder 27-09-11
Blacksmiths Surfer 27/9/11
Blacksmiths Surfer 27-09-11
Marks Point 2011 Boxing Day drew a large crowd of picnicers, boaters and fishermen on a day made for it.
Pelican Boating Jan2 2011
Fishing at Pelican Boxing Day 2011
Pelican Fishing Jan 2 2011
Moth Sailing Championships at Belmont 16 Footers club January 2011. The Moth sailing boats have a winged keel that lifts it out of the water as it gathers speed, so they just glide though the water with no drag.
Moth sailing Lake Macquarie 3 Jan 2011
Moth Racing Lake Macquarie Jan 2011
Mayfield Pool 1988 at 6AM Arnold’s swim squad early morning training. If you want to be a champion swimmer you have to do the hard yards. A young Justin Norris was in amongst this squad of young swimmers.
Mayfield Pool 1998 Arnold's swim team
Redhead early Saturday morning 17/9/11 looking nice and clean. The crowd were sitting too far in for this one and it escaped unridden.
Redhead empty wave 17-09-11
Redhead surfer early saturday morning 17/9/12 on a clean long wall.
Redhead surfer 17-09-11
Then the wind came up and the crowd came out later and this scene resembles a Michael Bell Dogbeach painting.
Redhead crowded surf 17-09-11
Redhead surfer bashing a lip Saturday 17/9/11
Redhead surfer lip bash 17-09-11
John Purnell Redhead-Dudley surfer now up Nambucca way sent down some pics of his latest creations. Hand made Paulownia wood hollow chambered no glass just bees wax/oil finishes. A labour of love as they take weeks to make.
Chambered Paulownia wood surfboard Kiri 6’5″
John Purnell Paulownia Board Kiri
John in a smooth arc on the Paulownia Kiri
John Purnell on Paulownia Board 26.07.11
John’s son Ryan with Paulownia Mado Keel Fish
Ryan with Paulownia Mado Fish
My Hollow Ply 1950′s Kook Box with marine varnish finish. The term kookbox came from when in 1956 Popular Mechanics magazine published plans and instructions on how to make your own hollow plywood surfboard and then the surf craze boomed.
9ft 6 Ply Kookbox
Redhead Saturday cold change and the swell and the wind came up quick.
Redhead Beach rough surf 10-09-11
Redhead Beach looking nice Friday arvo 9/9/11
Redhead Beach 09-09-11 9
Redhead surfer Saturday 27/9/11
Redhead Surfer 27-09-11
Redhead Boardriders Comp Saturday 3/9/11
Redhead Boardriders Comp 03-09-11
Redhead lineup Saturday 3/9/11
Redhead Surf 03-09-11
Redhead 1st Creek
Redhead First Creek 09-09-11
Redhead Surfer 4/9/11 Fathers day
Redhead Surfer 04-09-11
Close up Redhead cliff 9/9/11
Redhead Bluff 09-09-11
My son Sam got back from Europe and managed to take in some of the scenery. Greek Isles August 2011
Greek Isles August 2011
Running with the Bulls Barcelona August 2011
Running with the Bulls Barcelona 2011
Bull Fighting in the Stadium at Barcelona – yep some Newi boys jumped in.
Bull Fighting Barcelona 2011
Spray Can Artist at work in the shop front of Mystery Ink Newcastle.
Newcastle Spray Paint Artist at work 26-08-11