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Garth and Russ – c. 1970 From the early 1960s, Byron Bay was a magnet for surfers wanting to get out of the city. There was good surf around there, and land was relatively inexpensive. Three of my friends had houses on a small spur of land just inland of the town – this is Garth Murphy and Russell Hughes at Garth’s place. Photo: Witzig
When I was searching through my old pictures to make an initial select for A Golden Age that Rizzoli published earlier this year, I came across a bunch of pictures that’d slipped from my mind or never been there in the first place. There were no wondrous discoveries unfortunately – more that I was reacquainted with pictures that’d been published some 40 years before, or noticed others that I hadn’t seen the significance of. That was pretty nice actually.
To see more photos from John Witzig’s A Golden Age: Surfing’s Revolutionary 1960s and ’70, click here