Midway ’75

August 1975. Midway left-hander.  Shot early one morning with a Pentax Sp1000 film camera, this surfer has a unique surfing stance that someone should recognise.  Tim Vanderlaan Photo.

Katzap

Rod Katis at Elouera Beach in the late 80’s. Tim Vanderlaan Photo. 

5th Left

5th Left.  Cronulla’s secret lefthander breaking in open ocean. For decades brave surfers have made the long paddle, and reaped its rewards. Tim Vanderlaan Photo.  

Hand Plane and Belly Boarding

1965 Lewis Cawsey bodysurfing with a hand plane and Greg Vaughan bellyboarding, at Cronulla Point. Photo Jack Eden.

Interview with Lewis Cawsey    

At home we used to make our own boats and we had marine ply. I got the idea of what was going on in the surfing scene and made my own paipo board. I had a mate up the street, Greg Vaughan, who ended up buying his own bellyboard (two fins) from school friends. Swim fins came from the Bob Frazer Sports Store in Cronulla, near the theater. Greg’s board had a laminated wood resin finish and two fins—nice board. Mine was just marine ply and varnished. My ply paipo board was also used as a skim board when the surf wasn’t working. 

Rest of interview at

http://mypaipoboards.org/interviews/LewisCawsey/LewisCawsey_2014-0820.shtml

Frank Latta

Frank Latta early 70s Peter Clarke Surfboards shape.

  

1968 Wanda Sand Dunes

1968. The Wanda Sandhills were an imposing backdrop of most Cronulla shots taken in the 60’s and 70’s. Tim Vanderlaan photo collection.

Craig Stroh

1992. Craig Stroh shooting film at Shark Island. Before commercially available waterhousings, surf photographers often made their own camera housings from perspex, fibreglass and lots of trial & error. Tim Vanderlaan Photo.

Jack Eden

1995.  Legendary 60’s surf photographer Jack Eden captured here in a rare surf image where he himself is the subject.  Tim Vanderlaan Photo.

Ashley Gee

As a grom Ash showed real potential competing with EBC until he changed course and foccussed on his reef surfing skills. During the 80s he gained a rep as one of the best underground chargers in Cronulla. This pic surfing at the time  one of the last uncrowded spots in the Nulla mid 80s photo Chris Stroh

Steve Doney. Matt Surfing ’76

June 5, 1976. Steve Doney. Matt rider, Shark Island, a few years before the “lids” discovered the Island, Steve was charging impossible waves on an air filled canvas matt. Steve’s gotta be Cronulla’s unsung surfing hero. Tim Vanderlaan Photo.