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Rolf and the farmer at Johanna – 1970 The finals of the World Championships in Victoria were moved from Bells Beach because of the lack of surf. Johanna was an idyllic dairy farming area. This was Rolf Aurness (who won the contest) with one of the locals. 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