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
The days are getting warmer and its starting to look like summer already. Late afternoon Redhead 25/8/11. A few different peaks showing up.
Redhead surfer surfing the right across the back of the Shark Tower.
Redhead surfer 25-08-11 1
Redhead Surfer on the right on the big Beach.
Redhead surfer 25-08-11 2
Redhead surfer on the left just past the Shark Tower
Redhead surfer 25-08-11 3
Redhead surf Club 25/8/11
Redhead Surf Club 25-08-11
The statue overlooking Newcastle Beach. James Fletcher 1834-1891. A Newcastle man worthy of the view, a mine manager that valued his workers, a politician that fought for workers rights and owner of the Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners Advocate.
James Fletcher Statue Newcastle 22-08-11
Belmont 16 Footers Sailing Race Sunday 21/8/11. The wind was strong from the east, doing someone at least some good.
Belmont 16s Race 21-08-11
Redhead Shark Tower Rocks 22/08/11
Redhead Shark Tower Rocks 22-08-11
Pigs grazing in the front garden NZ 1977.
Pigs in the garden NZ 1977
Steve Butterworth showing his tube riding skill with smooth style at Redhead 1980.
Steve Butterworth Redhead 1980
The top end of Newcastle. Looking down Watt Street, over the Hunter River to Stockton Beach – 2 water views.
Watt St Newcastle 22-08-11
Redhead Lovely arvo 18/8/11 and a few good waves and some good surfers out.
Redhead Surfer 18/8/11
Redhead surfer 18-08-11 1
Redhead surfer 18/8/11
Redhead surfer 18-08-11 8
Redhead surfers 18/8/11
Redhead surfers 18-08-11 5
Redhead Bluff with the late arvo sun showing out its colour.
Redhead Bluff 18-08-11
But it went pearshaped Friday arvo 19/8/11 a strong front hit wiping the surf out for the weekend.
Storm coming 19/8/11
Redhead beach storm 19-08-11
Bad moon rising 19/8/11 Storm clouds on the way
Redhead stormy sky 19-09-11
Boys at the Barby for TR’s 21st Crows Garage 1980
Crows Garage party 1977
Sidewinder cranking at the Mawson 1978 – Great Band!!
Sidewinder Mawson 1978
Chambers of Horror Newcastle Show 1979
Newcastle Show Chambers of Horror 1979
Peaceful Byron Bay early morning 1979
Bryon Bay 1980
The swell jacked up for Saturday morning and there were some gnarly waves at Redhead and some hot surfing. Blackies was going off too.
Redhead 4-6-11
Redhead shark tower left 4-6-11
The paddle out was a bit hairy.
Redhead paddle out 4-6-11
There were some great surfers out.
Redhead surfer1 4-6-11
Redhead surfer2 4-6-11
Redhead surfer3 4-6-11
Redhead surfer4 4-6-11
Redhead surfer5 4-6-11
Redhead surfer6 4-6-11
Blacksmiths was pumping off the Breakwater too.
Blacksmiths 4-6-11
Blacksmiths Surfer 4-6-11
I met young photographer Sam Glohe at Blacksmiths last Sunday when I was going out for a paddle. Sam took some water shots in the solid closing out but sunny conditions and his photos are awsome.
Check his site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/samglohe/
Here is some of his stuff -
Blacksmiths by Sam Glohe
Closed Curtain by Sam Glohe
Pulled Back by Sam Glohe
Stringy by Sam Glohe
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Redhead local Bodyboarder John early April 2011 morning Redhead Little Beach.
Redhead bodyboarder John 2-4-11
Blacksmiths SUP Surfer Rick 14th May 2011
Rick Blacksmiths Beach May 2011
Newcastle Beach mid week May 2011
Newcastle Beach May 2011
Overlooking Newcastle May 2011
Overlooking Newcastle 1st May 2011
Surfer at Redhead Easter Friday April 2011
Redhead surfer 22-4-11
Surfer Newcastle 3rd June 2011
Newcastle surfer 3-6-11
Another Newcastle surfer 3-6-11
Newcastle surfer 3-6-11
- Redhead Beach by Moonlight 1984
Another photo from the same night as above – The rocks in front of the Redhead Shark Tower. The movement of the water over time has made it appear like clouds.
Redhead Beach in the 1940’s – Details of photo unknown.
Time exposure overlooking Redhead beach with a full moon rising in 1976.
Redhead Beach by Moonlight 1976
Redhead 2nd Creek – June 2007 Storm.
The Pascha Bulker grounded at Nobbys and Redhead’s Second Creek finally got enough water to break its banks and flow again. A rare thing since the 3rd Creek was created and diverted the water flow.
Redhead Beach 2nd Creek June 2007 Storm
Mark Richards, 4 times world surfing champion taking time out to surf a local break.
Martin Littlewood and Roy Lee making boards in the old Chicken Shed down along the Redhead Road around 1976. Both are now established respected board makers. Martin as Delta Designs in Margaret River and Roy as Pacific Dreams in Newcastle.
Windsurfing was big in the 70’s and Jim Wiley was one of the best shown here at Blacksmiths.
This was a big day at Redhead in 2001, the waves were huge and some of the local guys were ripping. Unknown surfer.
Unknown surfer Redhead Beach July 2001
A classic line up at Byron Bay in the late 70’s
Bells Beach Surfing Competion in 1977. The surf was good and big for the finals. Sorry I can’t remember who it was.
Another good line up – Newcastle Cowrie Hole in 1978.
Out of control storm in June 2007 making a mess of Redhead beach. The storm grounded the Pascha Bulker at Nobby’s the day before.
Surfing at Redhead
I started surfing at Redhead in 1963. Redhead was always a great place to surf with good surfers. Somehow I found time to take some photos along the way.
Col Smith was Redhead’s best surfer and in the 70’s and 80’s became respected for his surfing world wide.
- Col Smith surfing next to the Shark Tower at Redhead about 1976.
Martin Littlewood was another good Redhead surfer in the 70’s shown here at Redhead Beach. Martin has been making surfboards since then and is now over at Margaret River WA making all kinds of surf boards under the name Delta Designs.
Martin Littlewood Redhead Beach 1976
Peter Kuba was another good surfer from Redhead shown here in a nice tube same day as the photo above.
Col Smith Redhead Beach 1976
Redhead Boardriders Club was very competetive and finished 2nd to Merewether in the Newcastle area teams comps, having a great surfer like Col Smith helped. This team photo after a club competition was held at Col’s place and all members were having a good time as usual.
