“We used to surf Day Street all the time…”
However, majority rules, and the young up and coming surfers from the *Four Point Surf Club were over the relatively gentle beach break waves of Day Street. Even though we had the only surf club shack on the far south coast, right on the beach in front of a pretty consistent right-hand bank, we all wanted to surf Yorkes.
Mark ‘Yap Yap’ Wright, Kim Buckby, Roger ‘Bo Bo’ Matthews, Dave ‘DK’ Kelly, Merrick Savage, Andy Dale, Paul Hicks, myself and the younger Pointers, simply out-voted the old boys who still wanted to surf down south on their longboards. Much to the chagrin of the club Elders, including Greg Ellis, Ken ‘Yogi Bear’ Ross, Mark ‘Pixie’ Pix and Rob Morcom, we decided…