August 1972 - Lotsa surfing

Jeff Hakman hooks down the line with arms flung wide. But it’s Errol Considine’s rhyming couplet that really gives the cover its feel-good vibe.

“I feel the waves,
The waves feel me,
We both feel each other:
We both feel free.”

Inside issue #23 it’s still fifty years before Van Life hits peak trend, but the Tracks fully-qualified-survivor section provides advice on how to fit out a Kombi. There’s even a couple of VWs for sale in the bitsa section at the back of the mag.

Errol trades poetry for a hitchhiker’s guide to crossing the continent, warning against the biggest threat, the ‘real Orstralian’.

Meanwhile, surf-movies are a big thing and the mag features reviews on both ‘Five Summer Stories’ and ‘The Islands’ by Paul Witzig. Tommy Taylor (Actress, Elizabeth Taylor’s nephew) is part of ‘The Islands’ production crew and writes about a session at Pipeline. “Gerry Lopez showed up around 9:30. This is the man everyone was waiting for. 

He is rumoured to know the ‘Pipe’ better than anyone and if you saw him this day you’d believe it.” No arguments there Tommy.     

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