First they build a golf course and houses to ruin the dunes and now this. What is the world coming to? Is it only surfers realizing what’s happening? Probably.

All beaches in the world belong to you – the people!!!

Quoting Pacific Longboarder:

Surfers Saying No to 4000 Mw Nuclear Reactor Near J-Bay
Monday, 7 July 2008
The proposed nuclear power station at Thuyspunt, just 12km from Cape St Francis, a wave made famous in the iconic 1960’s surf movie, the Endless Summer poses a real threat to Supertubes, one of the most famous surfing waves in the world and home to the Billabong Pro, one of 12 events on the Association of Surf Professionals (ASP) world tour.…

read more at Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

see Cape St. Francis – before “developement“ (private property) – at YouTube

Myspace.com Blogs – It’s ass kicking time! – Surfrider Foundation MySpace Blog

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Great selection of contemporary surf bands. And see the immaculate flyer.

Quote from website:

The festival was born in 2003 as the very first European event completely dedicated to surf music. With a load of great bands passed on our stage, we repeated it in 2004.

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The Complete Schedule

Main Stage Saturday
16.30 The Surfadelics
17:45 Jaguar & The Savanas
19:30 The Crashmen
21:00 The Charades
22:15 The Vibrants
23:30 Wadadli Riders & Daddy-O Grand

Main Stage Sunday
17:00 I Surfoniani
18:15 The Wavers
19:30 The Wet-Tones
21:00 The Sunny Boys
22:30 The Barbwires
23:30 The Bitch Boys

DJ Sets

Updates comin’ in the next days!

Side Stage Saturday
16:00 Favolosi Traslatori
Great garage/psychedelic show

Side Stage Sunday
18:00 I Rifflessi
The Italian face of 60s surf beat

20:30 Sexual Chocolate
Be ready for superb blues/rock

22:00 Gli Ambaciatori dell’Amore
Fantastic beat from the fabulous 60s

Sunday Morning from 12.00
Attention musicians: join us for the Surf Jam Session, get on stage and play!
All the instruments are already here, open mic, you are more than welcome.

website www.surferjoemusic.com

Exhibition on 60s surfing photographer in Cornwall – found via Pacific Longboarder:

Surfing Sixties

Jack Eden

This summer Tristan’s Photographic Gallery in Wadebridge, North Cornwall, takes advantage of both its status as one of the few international fine art photographic galleries outside of London and its sunny location amidst the surf beaches of North Cornwall to present a collection of rare, hand-printed, black and white images by the founding father of Australian surf photography, Jack Eden. Described as the ‘photographic biographer’ of Australian surfing history, Eden shot the majority of the images displayed between the late fifties and late sixties mainly around the beaches of Sydney for use in his magazine ‘Surfabout’ learning developing and printing techniques by correspondence with legendary American landscape photographer Ansel Adams.This period was a time of great transition, growth and development in surfing, as both new materials and designs allowed for great progression in the water and more young people pursued a relaxed and carefree lifestyle after the war years such as that offered by the beach. Jack Eden captured both the action taking place on the waves and also the fashions, cars, musicians and attitudes of the blossoming Australian beach scene which has since developed to become a national stereotype. The sixties were the decade when Australian came of age on the waves – the surfing evolution and revolution.…

Tristan’s Gallery
Wadebridge, Cornwall

Detailed info from HKW here.

Brian Chidester, co-author of Dumb Angel Magazine 4 and the upcoming Pop Surf Culture book (among other things) has a short film about the Waikiki Beachboys on YouTube currently.

Quote from Tiki central:

It’s a short documentary that I directed four years ago, as a teaser to a larger project about the Waikiki Beachboys… native Hawaiian surf instructors and nightclub entertainers from the jazz age up through the ’60s. There were two great generations of Beachboys, and even though there are still beachboy concessions on Waikiki Beach today, the music and scene is nowhere near what it was back in the day.
I hope you enjoy the clip. I have tons of interview footage ‘in the can.’

My old band (The Looney Tunes) played at the first DWV contest in Germany, 2004 on the island of Sylt. That led to many german bands playing at their meetings and contests. Soon after the Sylt contests they change the preferred location back to the french Atlantic coast.

Zitat:

Deutsche Meisterschaften des DWV im Wellenreiten 2008Der Deutsche Wellenreit Verband veranstaltet vom 27. September bis 4. Oktober 2008 in Seignosse an der südfranzösischen Atlantikküste die Deutsche Wellenreit Meisterschaft. Die DM geht damit in ihr 13. Jahr.

Deutsche Meisterschaften des DWV im Wellenreiten 2008

Zitat:

Wild Water Days zum dritten Mal auf Sylt
Für Naturschutz und Umwelt die Schulbank drücken und einen einwöchigen Aufenthalt auf Sylt als Projektwoche für die ganze Klasse gewinnen! Alle Infos dazu findet Ihr hier.Wild Water Days 2008. Ihr seid zwischen 9 und 14 Jahre alt und Pink Floyd haben mit ihrem Song “We Don’t Need No Education” euren Zuspruch gefunden? Na, dann haben wir hier genau das Richtige für euch! Denn ein bisschen Bildung hat noch niemandem geschadet, insbesondere, wenn es sich um Umweltschutz und das Wellenreiten handelt. Und genau aus diesem Grund veranstaltet die Quiksilver Foundation vom 2. bis 6. Juni 2008 zum dritten Mal die Wild Water Days auf Sylt. Dass die Quiksilver Foundation weiß, wovon sie spricht, beweist ihr Engagement beim Thema Naturschutz: Neben der Überwachung von Korallenriffen, der Kontrolle der Wasserqualität in bekannten Surf-Revieren und Strandsäuberungsaktionen investiert die Quiksilver Foundation all ihre Energie, damit wir weiterhin in sauberem Wasser surfen können.

Wild Water Days zum dritten Mal auf Sylt

Whether it’s about Aussie Atlantics type, Jack Johnson mode, California instro, Beach Boys style or all of them was not specified yet.

Volume 7 Number 4
80 pages plus cover

Face Moves: Twelve Longboard Apostles
The Kingdom of Tonga
Surf Music Lives
Once Were Groms
Profiles: Beau Young & Manly Malibu Club

Pacificlongboarder.com

Some of these look good to me, of course they’re impracticle as surfboards, more like ritual paddles, spears and guaras.

*HUA Sculptured Surfboards
WHAT ARE THEY?
HUA (Polynesian Soul) SCULPTURES are the work of Aaron Kereopa – a young Maori surfer and artist.
Aaron designs and then carves these characters into stripped back, old – dis-used surfboards. Each of them represents a part of a Maori warrior tree.
Aaron’s works are now only available by commission.

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