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Reunion one 55:210:00/55:21
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Reunion two 48:530:00/48:53
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Reunion three 37:490:00/37:49
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Reunion four 51:380:00/51:38
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Reunion five 40:290:00/40:29
2015....Saturday nite at 6pm, people start rocking up at Motel Sierra, for an awesome evening, of comp prizegiving, finger foods, and quizz's.....about a 100+ people turn up, and we rock on til 11pm....prize for the best hippie and many a surf story was told....was just awesome
A few of us stayed over at the Motel....and breaky was laid on

275 Barry Chappell, Tim Frazerhurst i think we're gonna see some classic hippiedom tonight.............

308 Col was our resident 'mouth organ' man in the 60s...he took that mouth organ everywhere....played a mean tune too!!!..

321 Warwick Williams Warwich wins the age impaired ...from the Pataua comp...he was the only competitor...i think all the others died...Ha!!

323 all the age group winners won an original 'Kombi' painting (not a print) and a card with a 'Pataua rocks' message from Brian Kealana, Wayne Rabbit Bartholemew, Rusty Miller and Nick Carrol.....very cool!!!..

429 "where have you heard this tune"? 'Theme from a summer place'....well, they always played that tune at 'intermission at the Regent movie theatre in the 60s!!!!...

456 and Brian King wins the 'Hippie dress-up' with his innovative picture of Hippie extraordinaire 'Barry Gemmel'.....the greatest hippie that ever lived...and compatriot of ours!!!....'long live Barry'!!!!!

469 Special awards time... Trev King gets the award for the person who above most , kept the 'stoke' of surfing alive in our area over the last 5 decades...very cool....

471 Trev gets a genuine 1960s LP 'Tom Jones' record clock....we reckon he's like a Surfing Tom Jones...Ha!!!!

473 and also a card and personal message from 'Tom Wegganer'...the modern introducer of the Alaia board and nominated world number one shaper in 2014

477 Ross and Don Edges turn... We recognize them as the founding fathers of Northland surfing....and in my hand is the original 8mm spool reel container from Sydney 1964 world titles from the Austrailan film Industry archives....very cool!!!...

480 and a personal message from Midget Farrelly to them "Don and Ross...the Legend Edge brothers..we love you guys".. Midget Farrelly 2015.....

482 We also had a women representative for the Northland surfing community over the last 5 decades...and we chose Irene.....

483 she recieved a little gift plus a personally signed little message from 1990 world surfing champion "Pam Burridge' "Dear Irene..keep surfed stoked (love heart) Pam burridge...

484 Pam has been inducted to the Australian hall of fame and has a Sydney ferry named after her....Pam, a strong national representative of womens achievements....

486 Pam recently represented (Feb 2015) 100 years of womens surfing at the Duke Kahanamoku 'Freshwater bch' 100 yr reinactment....which is where she wrote this card for Irene (in full public view of National and International media)...very cool!!..

and here's the 'Duke' re-inactment 4 weeks before our reunion Pam stood next to Duane here and wrote the card to Irene.....i think Northland surfing has a pretty significant International profile now ..wouldn't you say!!

Duane doing the 100yr re-inactment of the Dukes visit to AUS and NZ 1915 Freshwater Beach...Sydney Feb 2015

489 actuallly a very Special moment here as Johnny displays the more than 55yrs of camaraderie between people of the surfing community....

490 Johnny presents to Herman a personally signed framed poster of the movie 'Evolution' by Wayne Lynch.....

493 very rare for Wayne Lynch to put his signature to anything...a notoriously private person, but Johnny's personal friendship with Wayne came thru...awesome stuff!!!!...

527 Absentee board....also Julie Davenport (Bryan) and Julie Monkhouse had to pull out at the last moment...which was unfortunate...oh well...there's always the next one!!!...
What the 80-90s kids have to look forward too! Ha!
DEWAR '97 Ottawa Sun
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