Jack Eden

Jack Eden started taking surfing photos in the late 50’s and published 24 issues of Surfabout magazine in the mid sixties, which gave the Southside its first coverage. The first photos of Cronulla Point, Voodoo and Sandshoes opened up the possibilities that the Southside had to offer. Riders like Bobby Brown, Frank Latta and Qld transplant Keith Paull before returning north where  regularily featured. Many of his images captured the sport in what Jack refers to as the golden era of surfboard riding. It was all experimental as there was no guidlines and the surfers back then were making it up as they went. Jack below shows off some of his work  which is like a time capsule and is regularily featured in museums.

 

Damien Hodge

Around ’90 Damien Hodge was the new kid on the block showing plenty of potential in the amateur ranks. Being taken under the wing of Dog and Jason Marsh, Hodgey was one of Cronulla Boardriders Clubs most promising stars and looked like a possible candidate to follow a similar pro career path to that of Greeny , Occy and Dog. In ’95 when this pic was taken by Peter Simons, Hodgey was riding Stuart Patterson shaped Force 9 boards.  

Rusty Moran

Rusty Moran in the 90’s was a dedicated Christian surfer who used to regularily take risks that many other riders would not dream about. Like surfing massive Cloudbreaks in Hawaii and paddling out to 20ft plus Waimea on your first trip aged 17 or night surfing on full moons. When Rusty hooked up with photographer Jon Frank it was a match made in heaven as Franky is just as crazy as Rusty when it comes to pushing boundaries. Photo Frank Circa 90’s.

 

 

Terapai Richmond

Spring ’99 issue of Underground Surf magazine the brainchild of Ben Horvath featured Terapai on the cover taken at Shark Island by Craig Stroh

Gary Hughes

Classic pic from The Point of Gary Hughes taking the drop around 1976 photo by Steve Core.

Michael Jackson Force 9

Heres a Michael Jackson Force 9 shaped twin fin. Michael was a red hot surfer who was a member of the original Cronulla Junior Club run by Jim and Richard James. Twinny Circa 80’s

 

 

Voodoo

Jack Edens Surfabout Magazine Vol 2 No 8 featured an article about this mysterious reef wave not far from Kurnell.Surfers like Scott Dillion had been frequenting the wave for sometime and Jack  captured the first images of this unique wave. Circa 60’s.

Gary Hughes ’76

In ’76 Gary Hughes was the rising star of Cronulla surfing. This Saltwater adv. appeared on the back page of Steve Cores first issue of Surf Magazine taken by Steve.

 

Rob McLaggen Logo

Rob was one of the talented kneeboarder chargers who surfed The Point and Island in the 70’s as well as produce custom kneeboards.

Rob Schaeffer

Rob was another of the talented Goofyfoots that sprung up around Cronulla in the mid 80’s. Photo taken on one of  the Nullas lesser spoken about  reefs by Chris Stroh