Still Kicking,November Jaccaranda flowering, board no longer used but, Last year these were coming through at Nth Avoca...Aloha Tiki

worn out surf rats from over 50 years of surfing, and if you dont play a Uke, a good one that is,you better!!

Well this is it, I haven't surfed for about 2 years and its looking like thats the way it will be , I 've done my time , dam good one at that , met wonderful friends and characters, travelled to more countries and places than I can remember, and surfed waves that most younger and newer surfers dream about....now I play my wonderful Ukulele's and spend some wonderful time with my wonderful wife Fiona, life has and is good....Adios Amigos, long may you surf and be kind to others, for this is your time. First pic is me 3 years ago 2nd pic is me,old friends, Roy Meisel, Max Pendergrast and Bobby Brown,3rd is me 1976, end of a sugarcane season, and the last is me at Broken Head 1978

6'4" x 22 1/2" x2 3/4", full swirl tint triple barrel concave flattening behind the twin fins, Hot Diggity Dog!....Maybe the last board Ill do!

Made this for Wayne Lyndon,my shape and art his glassing, Wayne was the main glasser at Shanes and then at McCoys for many years and I worked with him at both places, these are recent photos as she is up for sale, and is now 7 years old, all tint with an inlay of the red and, a bamboo centre fin by me

GREAT SOUTHERN LAND

No Friggin snow here at Christmas........Jingle bloody Bells to you all....TIKI

My Favourite board that was stolen 2 years ago has been found

Not tellin! but its cold!and Bob Newlands 1976 asymetricals for Lennox and Broken Head

SUMMER IS HERE

Old friend Lenny Miller who now is a quadrapalegic from a surfing accident in his late 50s, took this photo on one of his many early trips to Crescent Head. This is 1964 when there was only one Pandanus tree, he said it was crowded, maybe 8 or 10 out.

Billy Mcleans glass jobs at Mctavish, ...two Greenough Bobby Mct shaped spoons,with edges, and the longboard ,Black resin tint and black fin

Me TIKI 1977,29 years old, this is the first time I've seen this photo.

One of Alonso's sprays at Mctavish before glassing, all that is left of Bare Nature surfboards, two amigos Bill Mclean and Roy Meisel( bare nature), and a lovely Volane glass job with large lap by the master BILL. including me three ol farts who have made, and still do, some wonderful boards.

My eldest son Kris at Ulu's...as they say the Acorn doesn't fall far away from the Oak tree

Wood is good

DA BOYS and Kevin Keith at Cocobolo Ukulele Nicaragua have released a new batch of all handmade Ukulele's . The sapwood and heartwood is the regular and the one that is featured is, the top of the range Tenor , made with that wonderful wood Cocobolo VIVA!

Gary's ,polished and finished

Gary's....Just a cut and polish and ...Done