Highlights from the Noosa Festival of Surfing
Say what you want about Noosa - overcrowded waves, overpriced coffee - but it really does fire the imagination. Take the first shot in this vid for example with an unknown femlin cross-stepping over an aquarium, or the flyaway drone shots showing the verdant headland and meagre crowd
Yes I know it's a comp, it's not real life, but my imagination cares not for reality, especially when winter is closing in and the surf has been flat for way too long. I'll take the idyll of Noosa over any one of these scant and ever-shortening days.
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Nicely put together vid. I've still got memories (and super 8 film) of surfing there alone or with a few mates in the 60s through to the early 70s. Good during the week before the dole came along.
Slo-mo o'load
where the fuck did those people find a park?
People travelled up the east coast of Oz for that?
Wow.. so yeah not the reality for the average punter in the usual lineup I guess but thats a really beautiful clip! Could do with more of that! Any more in the works, maybe a short fillum or something? Thanks for posting it.
That was a really beautiful little piece of the surfing life .
Amazing backdrop, heavenly water and good times sliding across the surface of a passive pacific.
Then I saw the beach crowd and the SUPs and the fucking SUP races (!!!) and felt an overwhelming urge to violently hurl my IPAD into a large rock.
Those days of beauty are done.
Now it's points on the board, first past the post and the scene , Man.
Fuck that shit and I pray that particular societal disease never makes it past the border quarantine into WA.
Or at least never makes it past the 20th parallel .
Might have been fun to attend as a non surfer. I once enjoyed a pro junior as a spectator due to a perforated ear drum keeping me out of the ocean , so I can see how it would be briefly acceptable to rock up, blow a Scoob and talk some shit with some interesting crew for a couple of hours if you were physically unable to surf.
But as a surfer....your fucking joking.
How can people live there ?
What are you Blowin, some kind of NIMBY communist or something??
More population, more development, more consumption, it's the way to go.
Australia has heaps of space, we can fit 150 million, easy.
I was there that weekend, with only a 6'0 shorty. Enjoyed watching really good longboarding, especially from skinny little teenage girls. Oh, and I got stupid good, head high Boiling Pot with one friendly local. What a wave!
bullshit
That's what I would have thought. Nationals and Ti Tree had lots of longboarders out, but nobody at Boiling Pot - at least not for the 1 1/2 hr I surfed it. But you're right about the parking :-P
I'm with Blowin, what a wank that festival is.
Andy M you must be kidding, 150 million people? maybe we can have them all on our coastlines. A large percentage of inland Australia is uninhabitable.
Surfing used to be a cool sub culture and most of us loved it back then, now it's just turned into a big crappy, wanking scene.
Yes I was kidding - I was basically feeling Blowin's pain.
I don't have a problem with festivals but I'm not really keen on crowds, and more to the point, I'm not too keen on where Australia's going with it's infinite population growth.
And you're right, population will pretty continue to end up on/near the coast - I mean, why wouldn't they?
Even if we really started pushing now, it'll take decades to get any political traction regarding a sustainable population.
So what does that mean?
Sounds like we double our current population before politicians even consider doing something.
And we all know what that means for surfing as we know it in Australia.
Yeah, all those stupid smiling faces and laughing kids having fun.
Makes me want to throw up.
I'm entitled to my opinion zenagain, if you like those sorts of festivals then good luck to you.
There's plenty of laughs and smiling faces in the world of surfing I inhabit!
As am I my friend and in my world too.