http://crowsgarage.com Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:51:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en August 13th 2010 - the swell jacked up with a low pressure system with a stiff wind. Some hell men were out at Dudley. The next 3 photos courtesy of Geoff Connors. [caption id="attachment_615" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Big Dudley - surfer unknown 13th August 2010 photo by Geoff Connors"][/caption]   [caption id="attachment_616" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Dudley 13th ... http://crowsgarage.com/it-gets-big-at-dudley/ You gotta make it look good, no good doing the moves without your own style. Surfing has always had stylists to steal a bit off and add your own too. Some of my favourites are Phil Edwards Miki Dora Midget Farelly and Gerry Lopez, more recently Tom Curran and Joel ... http://crowsgarage.com/surfers-with-style-in-the-70s/ Col Smith 1978 Surfing Redhead's Lefts. No one surfed them better. [caption id="attachment_587" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Col Smith in 1978 surfing at Redhead"][/caption]   Lennox Head 1978.  This place is one of the narliest place to paddle out. [caption id="attachment_588" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Lennox Head 1978"][/caption]   Little Kreen Frock 2008. This little fellow was in full Ribet ... http://crowsgarage.com/surfing-at-redhead-in-the-70s-and-other-things/ Redhead Beach May 2007. Not a bad right and no one out. A film company making the movie "Newcastle" were set up in the beach car park, so other surfers were surfing a bank further down the beach. I paddle out here 5 minutes after taking this photo, when from the ... http://crowsgarage.com/redhead-beach-may-2007/ Cold Chisel played the Mawson Hotel at Caves Beach lots of times in the late 70's. Well the hotel just got lunched, to make way for more stuff. Some good shows and good nights were had there. This is one of my favourite shots of Ian Moss. In silhouette. I only used the ... http://crowsgarage.com/cold-chisel-mawson-hotel-1978/ A close inspection of Redhead Bluff (not too close, there's rocks falling off - like in Billy the Mountain) shows a Tubular Section in it, recent rain has done some corrosive damage and has hollowed out a literally tubular gnarly slab. [caption id="attachment_527" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Redhead Cliff with wave June 2010"][/caption]   A ... http://crowsgarage.com/redhead-bluff/ Angourie 1978 4 guys out. [caption id="attachment_491" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Angourie 1977 4 guys out"][/caption]   HOW TO GET MORE CHIPS. In 1968, on a weekend surfari  up the north coast, a small group of starving surfers head into town for a feed after a long day of surfing at Green Knob. They stop at their favorite ... http://crowsgarage.com/up-the-coast/ Dweezil Zappa, son of Frank, brought his dad's music to life again in Newcastle at the great Civic Theatre in April 2009. Dweezil played amazing guitar. I saw Frank Zappa play back in 1972 and 1974, awsome. He had guest Norman Gunston (actor Gary MacDonald) play a harmonica solo. Here Dweezil rips out ... http://crowsgarage.com/photos-from-around-newcastle/ On Surfari around southern NSW near Bega 1977 getting close to susnset,  we went through this water way and then went back and did it again for the camera. [caption id="attachment_451" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="On surfari near Bega 1977"][/caption]   Redhead Beach from the Bluff 1977 [caption id="attachment_452" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Redhead beach 1978 "][/caption]   Ray Lunn stalls ... http://crowsgarage.com/old-photos-around-1977/ The Redhead Shark Tower Rocks have always meant a lot to most Redhead locals, it has the best ring side seat to an awsome view of the bluff and the surf. My daughter Lia in 1976 playing in the storm blown foam in front of the Redhead Shark Tower. This photo also appears ... http://crowsgarage.com/redhead-shark-tower-rocks-and-other-stuff/