Bluebottles washed up on Redhead Beach 24/3/2020
Bluebottles Redhead Beach 24-03-20
Pelican in the rain Black Ned’s Bay 5/3/2020
Pelican Black Neds Bay 05-03-20
Clouds over sunrise Redhead 9/3/2020
Clouds Redhead 09-03-20
Redhead First Creek last gasp 30/1/2020
Redhead 1st Creek last gasp 30-01-20
22/12/2019 Redhead Second Creek has dried up to just a small water hole, never seen it that dry before. Come on … rain!
Dry Redhead 2nd Creek 22-12-19
Sand Snowman and Merry Christmas Redhead Beach 12/12/2019
Sand snowman Redhead Beach 12-12-19
Redhead Beach Tide art 12/12/2019
Tide art Redhead Beach 12-12-19
Razor clams from Black Ned’s Bay 11/12/2019
Razor clams Black Neds Bay 11-12-19
Bush fire ash patterns on the tide line Redhead Beach 6/12/2019
Ash patterns tide line Redhead Beach 06-12-19
Smoke Haze Redhead Beach 05/12/2019
Smoke Haze Redhead Beach 05-12-19
Optimistic tube rider Redhead Beach 14/11/2019.
Optimistic tube ride Redhead 14-11-19
Ian Moss Cold Chisel 1978 Belmont North Community Hall. A good night for a small crowd.
Ian Moss 1978 Belmont North Hall
Crow surfing at Boomerang 1977
Crow 1977 Boomerang
Big black rain cloud hanging over Redhead Beach early morning 1/10/2019
Dark Clouds Redhead Beach 01-10-19
At first glance this cloud bank looks like a giant wave about to monster Redhead Beach, at a second glance it still does. Head for the hills.
Giant wave like cloud Redhead Beach 11-09-19
More sand sculpture by mother nature Redhead Beach 1/9/2019
Sand sculpture Redhead Beach 01-09-19
Natures sand sculpture and a bush fire Redhead beach 23/8/2019
Sand sculpture and a bush fire Redhead 23-08-19
Wild flowers Redhead Bluff bush track
Redhead Bluff Bush Walk
Redhead Beach surfers in a punchy early session 20/7/2019
Redhead Surfers 20-07-19
Redhead Beach streaky sunrise 2/7/2019
Redhead beach streaky sunrise 02-06-19
Red sunrise Redhead beach 30/6/2019
Red sunrise Redhead Beach 30-06-19
Seaweed Redhead Beach 9/6/2019. Powerful surf for the last week has torn the kelp off the oceans floor.
Seaweed Redhead Beach 09-06-19
A flock of seagulls and clouds building and about to storm Redhead Beach 4/6/2019
Seagulls Redhead Beach 04-06-19
Redhead’s surfboard factory 1976. Martin Littlewood (Delta Designs) and Roy Lee (Pacific Dreams) were making surfboards in this converted chook shed in the lantana bush. I re-scanned the negative recently and its a bit clearer.
Redhead chook shed surfboard factory 1976
Redhead Beach 28/5/2019 solid sets and the first cold day this year
Redhead Beach 28-05-2019
Fisherman at sunrise Redhead beach 19/5/2019
Fisherman Redhead Beach 19-05-19
Big wave early morning Redhead Beach 7/5/2019
Big Wave Redhead Beach 07-05-19
This huge wave just exploded Redhead Beach 5/5/2019
Explosive wave Redhead Beach 07-05-19
Redhead Beach 19/4/2019 a dark start to the morning.
Redhead Beach Dark start 19-04-19
Dream wave sequence 1966, I wouldn’t change a thing now, except add a leg rope. I most likely drew this in Maths class at school when I was 16.
Wave dream sequence 1966
Redhead Cliff Face Profile 13/04/2019
Redhead Cliff Face Profile 13-04-19
Mind Control Pole. Someone aptly labelled the Swansea Telstra Tower 31/3/2019
Mind Control Pole Swansea 31-03-19
Wally Berwick the original Beach Inspector Redhead Beach with a redwood plank 1984
Wally Berwick original wood 1984
Redhead Surf Club 6:30 am and open for coffee 23/3/2019
Redhead Surf Club 23-03-19
Redhead Beach 21/3/2019 another pink sunrise
Redhead Beach sunrise3 21-03-19
Redhead Beach pink reflections 28/02/2019
Redhead beach pink reflection 28-0-19
Old Miners cottage at Green Point Belmont 1977. The 99 year leases ran out and the old houses were demolished. The area was then split between parkland and housing.
Old house Green Point Belmont 1982
Thirsty Kookaburra 21/01/2019. Photo taken through the blinds of the lounge window.
Thirsty kookaburra 26-01-19
All the boats out Black Neds Bay
All Boats out Black Neds Bay
Redhead Beach First Creek Sunrise 17/1/2019
Redhead 1st Creek Sunrise 17-01-19
Redhead Shelly Beach fish on rock 26/12/2018
Fish of rock Shelly Redhead 26-12-18
Redhead Bluff Goat Track 26/12/2016
Redhead Bluff Goat Track 26-12-18
Storm clouds over Redhead 20/12/2018. Looks like the beak of a whale.
Storm clouds 20-12-18
Strange little fly like flower from a bush along the Redhead 2nd creek walkway 22/12/2018
Flower Fly 22-12-18
Blacksmiths shore break 1/12/2018. A five foot swell was coming in from the east but waves now only dump right on the shore. There is a lot of sand on the beach but none under where the waves should be breaking. The waves used to break out where the surf boat is riding the swell.
Blacksmiths shore break 01-12-18
As a comparison to now here’s Blacksmiths Beach going off in a big north east swell June 2016 after a few days of big swell pushing in and scouring out of the sand on the beach.
Blacksmiths Beach 1 08-06-16
Sam catches another whopper off the rocks.
Sam Kingfish 10-11-18
Foggy morning Redhead Beach 23/10/2018. Trying to keep it simple.
Redhead beach foggy morning 23-10-18
Redhead 2nd Creek flowing again after good rain 6/10/2018. For something different it pushed along the beach to meet up with 1st Creek which then flowed down and out at the Shark Tower rocks.
Redhead 2nd creek flowing 06-10-18
Silver Sea – Blacksmiths Beach 17/10/2018 and it’s a colour photo
Silver Sea Blacksmiths 17-10-18
Early morning paddle around to Green Point Belmont 27/9/18 Water like glass, sun coming through the trees, nice and peaceful.
Reflections Green Point Belmont 27-09-18
Three Pig face flowers in different stages of bloom Blacksmiths Beach 20/9/2018
Pig face Blacksmiths 20-08-18
Sun through clouds Blacksmiths Beach 20/9/2018
Sun through cloud Blacksmiths 20-09-18
Ripples in the Sand Redhead Beach 22/08/2018. Waves pushed over the beach and left these patterns when the tide went out.
Sand ripples 22-08-18
Redhead beach flat as 07/08/2018
Redhead Beach flat as 07-08-18
Redhead Bluff cliff faces 29/7/2018
Redhead Cliff Faces 29-07-18
Patterns in the Sand Redhead beach 29/7/2018
Patterns in the sand Redhead 29-07-18
Purple sky Redhead Beach 18/6/2018. Some more bad weather not far away.
Purple Sky Redhead Beach 18-06-18
Some pictures from old surf magazines showing how good a surfer Col Smith was. Thanks to the surfing photographers and the magazines.
Col Smith big Sunset Beach 1976
Col Smith Lip Bash Surfabout 1978
Col Smith Aussie champ comp 1977
The Col Smith Memorial contest was resurrected this year at Redhead Beach thanks to all the organiser’s for their hard work.
Surfboards as prizes for the winners in the Col Smith Winter Classic 8/6/18. Surfboard makers donated some awesome new boards.
Prizes Col Smith Contest 09-06-18
The crowd at Redhead Beach watching the surfing at the Col Smith contest 9/6/18. A good crowd considering the cold and damp conditions.
Crowd Col Smith Contest 09-06-18
A reasonable surf for the Redhead Beach Col Smith contest 9/6/18Â considering the weeks of recent bad weather
Surf Col Smith Contest 09-06-18
The surf turn testy on Sunday – cold wet bumpy and a fast building swell. Competition surfers making it look much better than it was
Comp surfers Col Smith Comp 10-06-18
Rique Smith, Col’s son between heats at the Col Smith contest 10/6/18 Cold and wet but with the same smile as his dad’s see photo below.
Rique Smith 10-06-18
Redhead’s Col Smith at a party 1978, don’t think that was coffee he was drinking.
Col Smith Redhead party 1978
Cold Chisel’s Don Walker with cheap wine but as yet no three day growth Mawson Hotel 1978
Don Walker Mawson Hotel 1977
Cold Chisel’s Jimmy Barnes Cardiff Workers Club 1978
Jimmy Barnes Cardiff Workers 1978
Billy Reid came down with some of his old slides and we scanned in a couple of classic surfing photos:
Steve Butterworth and Col Smith surfing in a comp at Old Bar around 1978 Note Steve has switched feet on this one with his leg rope on his front foot.
Steve Butterworth Old Bar comp 1978
Steve Butterwoth Old Bar Comp 1 1978
Col Smith same comp Old Bar 1978
Col Smith Old Bar Comp 1978
Martin Littlewood had just shaped this classic 12 channel beast around 1978. See http://www.deltadesigns.com.au for info on Marty’s boards.
Martin Littlewood 12 channel 1978
Martin Littlewood on the inside Redhead classic Redhead 1978
Redhead surfers 1978
Thanks for the photos Bill
I also scanned in some old slides I took of Redhead’s best surfer Col Smith.
Col Smith at Redhead 1978 The surf was solid and grey
Col Smith surfing 1978 at Redhead
Col Smith 1976 the night before going to Hawaii with Jim Pollard Fluid Foils Channel Boards
Col Smith Fluid Foils for Hawaii
Col Smith sponsored by Tracker who gave him the airline ticket to Hawaii
Col Smith in Tracker Jacket 1976
Col Smith and family 1983 Christmas Day visit.
Col Smith and Family 1983
Lake View Swansea 21/5/2018 View through the trees and blue water to pelicans on the sand bar.
Lake View Swansea 21-05-18
A surfer as far back as possible in a solid swell Redhead Beach 10/5/2018 I don’t know if he made it.
Surfer Redhead Beach 10-05-18
A shell in a shell washed up on Redhead Beach like a bouquet of flowers.
A shell in shell Redhead 16-03-18
Rainbow over Redhead Beach 28/4/2018
Rainbow Redhead Beach 28-04-18
Redhead Beach sunrise clouds ships and chop 10/3/2018
Redhead Sunrise Ships and Chop 10-03-18
Redhead Beach sunrise 19/2/2018
Redhead Beach sunrise 19-02-18
30/1/2018 Peter Keelan sent me some great surfing photos taken at Leggy Point
Peter Keelan Leggy 2010
Peter Keelan Leggy Point
Peter Keelan Leggy Point 2017
Pete’s collection of fine channel bottom surfboards, all of these are made by master board maker Sam Egan
Peter Keelan with his Channel Bottom Boards
23/1/2018 Redhead First Creek has stopped flowing, never seen that before, sure need some rain.
Redhead first creek dried up 23-01-18
1920’s Arial photo of Blacksmiths Breakwater and looking past Swansea Heads from hunterlivinghistories site. A lot has changed since then, just out to sea past Caves Beach you can see the reef break we surfed that became the breakwater know known as Spoon Rocks.
Blacksmiths Breakwater 1920s
1989 BHP Newcastle Surfing Comp signed poster, some fine names on there.
1989 Newcastle BHP Comp poster
Crow's Garage 