surfEXPLORE: Discovering New Surfing Locations Worldwide doing well for pre-orders, thanks -

Added a few more reviewers to receive complimentary copies for their review, as soon as physical copies are available.

Not a book, but definitely challenging -

Perfect score, no wonder I wrote a book on surf travel worldwide surf travel destinations!

https://spotr.surf/challenges/daily-challenge-july-31-2025

you got 'Cactus' @AW? I found a second-hand copy (score!) at a Lions book sale in Brighton, and I already have one.. Christo Reid is very prompt with shipping, anyone else.. the edition II is available and epic apparently..
https://christoreid.com/products/pre-order-cactus-surfing-journals-from…

peyote cleanse..

umm.. oh, here's that sam george clip again, his current living arrangements at 1:25:00

basesix wrote:

you know how surf mags are kinda like mad magazines.. where you flip to the waves first (don martin) fave journos second (lighter side of) and work your way to the less interesting looking articles (movie satires)? like I was saying the other day, SW issue 426 is all gold. Nice one, Doherty!

https://surfingworld.com.au/product/surfing-world-issue-426/

SW had a thorough and ebullient article on NZealander Tony Harrington's

MAMMOTH book of mountains and seas: 'Defining Moments'

https://harroart.com/pages/about

https://www.mountainwatch.com/Snow-news/defining-moments-new-book-showc…

1200 pages for $300.. that's 25cents per page! (I think).

perfect Chrissy gift from the missus, get the suggestion in soon : )

^ W the actual F ????
Jeebus, Harro! Linda from the Port Mac PO got a sharp lower back twinge when she hosted this behemoth onto the counter.. all the pens in the little plastic tumbler continued rattling for a good 4 seconds, and the handful of customers at the takeway bay-marie all turned their heads as one..

(no-one should ever use the word 'tome' - especially an author about their own book,
but Harro.. if anyone ever had justification for doing so.. you're it mate..)

I couldn't stop laughing when I realised the back-breaking parcel was a single book..
reckon you'll get a few Ikea invoices from annoyed book-buyers if you suggest people use it as a coffee-table book)

A serious chunk of print there B6.

hectic huh? hard to even know how to approach it.. like a quintuple-decker club sandwich. Had a basic flip through, and the combo of surf and snow is pleasing, mountain lovers like IB/RK/Craig/zen etc, would dig the second half muchly.. here's a blurry contents page to give the locales..

(every page is a mesmerising photo amid a story you wanna read.. I just read about a three-day strike mission on Nicky Paul's prawn trawler to a virgin hypothetical bommie 60km off the SA coast, Harro took (along with two Schmuckers), Marti Paridisis, James H-Cross; Rich Vaculik, Bones Dwyer, Mark Visser; Billy Watson, Jamie Mitchell .. magic photos of Billy, Marti, James H-C taking on this 20' bom of a gps coordinate, 360 blue horizon, 20km from any rock or island..)

You simply won't find Harro's lifetime of stories on the internet.. I can't wait to read more of his Besser-block.

and yet you decide to use it as a beer coaster, or is that an offering at the shrine of the grubby towel?

hahahaha, fair call. clean/stained surfboard-padding towel was to protect back cover from morning dew, unopened beer for scale ; )

glad to hear, I'll reserve judgement then

I went on my once every five years clothes shopping spree yesterday. Got my wardrobe sorted until we approach 80% renewables in the national grid and my missus said, now what am I gonna get you for Christmas?!

A bit pricey but this looks a perfect answer. Thanks b6.

Book looks awesome b6, with a soft cover too..hmmm.....

What's it like?

The dark ale I mean ;)

It was amazeballs in its day, White Rabbit Ale started in Healesville, Vic.
even now it's run by the big boys (Kirin/Lion), it is a very good post-surf slurp.
I have a theory based on nothing that there's more vitamin B in the dark stuff ; )

Yes, can recommend. Not a stout but still good gear.

basesix wrote:

It was amazeballs in its day, White Rabbit Ale started in Healesville, Vic.

even now it's run by the big boys (Kirin/Lion), it is a very good post-surf

slurp.

Hahaha, I'll have to dig in

I have a theory based on nothing that there's more vitamin B in the dark stuff ; )

Nothing satisfies like a post surf perfect tasting ale or two. Tops the day very nicely.