Laurie Vanderlaan

Laurie grew up around Wanda Beach and used to compete against Glenn Pringle in EBC throughout the 80’s. The two then and now images were taken by brother Tim. With board circa 80’s and surfing at Garie in ’98.

 

Ray Wheeler

Ray Wheeler Cronulla surfing identity of the 60’s featured in Surfabout.

Elouera Beach ’78

A nice overview of how the beach looked back in the late 70’s still plenty of sand in the dunes at this time. photo Tim Vanderlaan.

Danny Thompson ’76

Danny Thompson bottom turning at Cronulla Point in  ’76 and holding the board while talking to Craig Langston. Check the old school legrope damage that was common with the early rope leashes. Photos by Tim Vanderlaan.

Bobby Brown ’67

Shot taken of Bobby competing at Bells Beach ’67 performing a stylish top turn.

Chris Iredale

In the 80’s Chris Iredale was at the peak of his surfing powers and he was especially at his best at getting barreled at Shark Island on the biggest and heaviest days. Back then the scores of boogies were far and few and Chris had his big wave line down and made the deadly slabs look easy to make. Anyone who has surfed the Island when its slabbing knows how difficult it is to ride this wave. Chris had it mastered. Photo Tim Vanderlaan.

Andrew McKinnon

Queensland surfer Andrew McKinnon had the prestige’s honor of being the last winner of the Bobby Brown Memorial Contest at Cronulla in the early 70’s. The comp ran for 3 years with winners Midget, Frank Latta and then Andrew who  kept the unique bronze sculptured trophy which he proudly displays below.

The Old Wall

Late 70’s a huge storm totally smashed the concrete wall that stretched between North Cronulla and Elouera Beach. Major erosion occured with a large chunk of the coastline vanished in the storms. This photo by Tim Vanderlaan you can see the extent of the damage to the headland was taken late 70’s prior to the development of the new wall that still exists today.

 

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Michael Jackson

Michael was a member of the Cronulla Junior Boardriders Club which surfaced in 1978 and it brought together the hottest grommets in Cronulla at the time including a young Occy it was to be their first contest grounding. MJ went on to be a stand out in local events, regionals and State titles. Michael moved into shaping as he got older  and spent many yearsat Force 9. Photographer  Tim Vanderlaan captured these shots of Jackson at Wanda late 70’s.

 

Stuart D’Arcy

Late 70’s a very young Stuart D’Arcy paddled out to Shark Island on his G&S and captured the eye of photographer Tim Vanderlaan.