Danny Maloney

One of the evergreens of Cronulla. A regular down at the Alley and known to hang out with Simo, Hodgey and Ricky Marshal.Comes alive when Voodoo is big and pumping where he unleashes his clean backhand turns. This pic Cronulla Point Circa late 90’s photo Craig Stroh

Emerald

Heres an  advertisements from Emerald Surfboards back when Steve Griffiths was at the helm in the early 80’s. It features all the crew including, Steve , Pete Smith, Banksy, Ross Marshal, Brad Mayes ,Barry Carr and Craig Naylor.

Speg

This is young Dave McKinley best known as Speg now one of Cronullas big wave chargers and standout at The Island winning an award at a EBC presso sometime in the early 80’s, pre pubes.    photo Stroh

Puberty Blues

This film about 2 teenage girls hanging out with the local surfie gang is a must see for any surfer from Cronulla at least once. Shaggin Wagons, fights with Clubbies, fish faced moles and  chicks dont surf are all part of this teenage growing up drama. Check out the clip below it even features a brief appearence of Occy, Richard James and Jacko. The funniest part about this movie is its accuracy to the times, this is what it was like growing up in the 70’s at Cronulla beach.

Luke Weinert

Luke  Weinert is one of the Elouera Dunny Hanger crew who is best known for his aerial  antics and general cutting edge moves. This shot taken around early 2000 is  typical of a Weinert surf session , turning average waves into big photographic moments, he definitely makes the camera mans job that much easier.      photo Craig Stroh

Occy @ Blackrock

Seeing Occy at Blackrock in the flesh is like watching Lopez at Pipe or MP at Kirra , they were made for one another. Occy on his Rusty absolutely tore it up this day. The Occster was in his prime back in the early to mid 80’s when he was riding for Billabong and Peak and had the narrowest of waist lines and his surfing was raw and spontaneous. He rocked up with Dog and Sean Charters around early mid morning and was soon getting the deepest barrels. One wave in particular comes to mind, I was a little too slow getting out of his way trying to get the last second shot in the barrel. Just when my head was about to collide with the nose of his board he fully bunny hopped me and kept going. Ive have never had anyone do that before or since. This pic brings back classic memories of the kid at his peak….photo Chris Stroh

 

Kong @ The Island.

  When Gary ‘Kong ” Elkerton was in his prime in the 80’s, during the Beaurapaires Tyre Open at Cronulla the Island turned on and the local crew got to see the Qld animal in the flesh. One pic from this day ended up on a classic Piping Hot poster photographed by Peter Simons. Simon Anderson and Californian Will Morris also ventured out this day.Other shots ended up in a 6 page article in Waves Magazine Nov 87 featured below.It was the first time that outsiders had invaded the sacred reef and came away with the photographic proof of what the Island was capable of. For a first timer,Kong was a natural.

Steve Austin

His real name is Steve Feinbeer and he’s not the 6 million dollar man.Stevo comes from a surfing family. His brother Wazza and dad are mad bodyboarders at the Island while Steve chose to standup. The trio where renown for surfing out of the way places like Bear Island, Solander and lots of secret unknown rock ledges around the area long before they became fashionable. It always had to be big thick, heavy and reef bottom. This shot shows Steve lining it up at Shark Island always casual and stylish.   Photo Chris Stroh Circa 90’s

Shane Pringle

        Growing up his whole life at Elouera it was only natural that Shane would be a EBC Dunny Hanger. While older brother Glenn rode the rights, Shane ripped it up on the left rip bowls. Shane was a bit of a news magnet. Anything that was going on in Cronulla,  Shane knew about it before anyone else. As a junior he won numerous surfing titles but instead of chasing a career in surfing he joined up to work with his Piping Hot Wetsuit sponsor and moved to Torquay for a short spell. After coming back to Cronulla, Shane seemed distant, the mischeavous sparkle in his eye was gone and he was different to the bubbly kid that everyone loved. He was diagnosed with manic depression a short time later and like other Cronulla surfers The Bear, Ross Fielder, Troy Dennehy and Andrew Murphy he sadly took his own life.The pics below show Shane tearing it up at his beloved Dunny Bowl and large gathering of family and friends line the beach and headland at Elouera to send off Shane in typical Surfing style with a paddle out tribute.

Rusty Cover 1st Underground Surf Mag.

     Underground Surf Magazine hit the newsagent’s shelves in Autumn 94. Local Elouera surfing identity Ben Horvath now the Coastal Watch man was the driving force. Bens mag was alternative and different to all the others focusing on cutting edge fashion, music and showing a more youthful and rebellious side to surfing. Plus it had plenty of Southside of the harbor coverage. It was also pretty contreversial with strippers etc that had the censors working overtime. Rusty Moran scored the cover of the first issue wearing his trademark Gath helmet that he was rarely seen without back in those days. Taken on a 2 metre south east day with a wrapping east bowl making things interesting. Rusty was making it look easy.  Photo Chris Stroh