Gold Coast Surfers Travelling South
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Goldie Surfers travelling south.
Here's a list of exactly wot our Goldie surf crew exhibit to our friendly Southern Neighbours
tbb & crew bring plenty of surf stoke & remove all evil.
We exhibit our deep love for raw passionate First Nation Surfing
Create & share rare Historical First Nation & pioneering Surf History Brochures of our Surf Hangs.
Award our Southern Neighbours gift packs of bonding Gold Coast Floral / Fauna Emblems
We volunteer to share the load for wot is needed.
We clean up litter from Southern neighbours Reserves & NP's.
Detox Marine Parks
Toxic Surf Product free Ocean Majesty Recovery ~ Breathe freely & heal for 30 mins or whole day.
By name & nature ~ tbb always evermore exhibits 100% Line Up Detox restoring 100% Surf Majesty!
We visit, support, patron & thank local Surf Community & Traders for Event or Festival.
Visit sacred site/s to pay respects to royally awarded First Nation Surf King/s.
In return we welcome Southern Neighbours in similar manner as if our own crew.
Qldurrz also invite & Exhibit the only 100% Toxic free ~ Zero harm - 100% surf stoke surfing comp.
(However! Goldie tbb has also likely complained 'bout our fellow not good for nuthin' surf crew.)
Please consider that the problem is not Surfers nor packs but the surf merch that pollutes our oceans.
100% toxic polluting surf industry separates surfers from waves ~ Selling out our devotion to Huey!
There is a mandatory restricted alternative that offers a fraction of wave access but rewards eternity!
Most Oz surfers are penned between flags fully absorbing 100% wave action sessions in harmony.
This majority of Oz surfers know nothing of Line-ups, Toxic Surf Merch, Surf Rage or Locals Only.
Shapeshift as everchanging infinite surf serpents for immortal Ocean Majesty...Surf just surf.
Be every wave you ever surfed thru yer afterlife & beyond...the ocean forever within you! Go for it!
When will taking a photo or film of a surfbreak be looked at as something as shameful as leaving litter at a surfbreak?
Classic case of in group bias.
Stok wrote:Classic case of in group bias.
Stok wouldn’t travel in a group because he wouldn’t be able to social distance his 1.5m apart
burleigh wrote:Stok wrote:Classic case of in group bias.
Stok wouldn’t travel in a group because he wouldn’t be able to social distance his 1.5m apart
And Burleigh can't travel south of the border as his car's plastered with One Nation stickers.
Ha ha!
Both of you. Made me laugh.
Here is what we are up against. I pulled up at a Yorke's surf break only to see a battered old troop carrier with Qld. plates and about 15 logs and mid length twinnies on the roof. Three hipsters who looked like they had come straight from Woodstock were inside the clifftop revegetated no go zone flying two drones over a pod of dolphins while the hippy chick played a ukelele in the back. I yelled out to them to watch out for the Ranger as drones are prohibited in the park, to which they laughed and carried on.
Next day they were out surfing at a nearby spot while the chick filmed their heroics in 1 foot whitewater and yep, total kooks. Someone who shall remain nameless had written fuck off kooks and a dick and a balls with wax on their dusty window. Welcome to S.A. now go home.
Ughhh.
There has been a spate of the QLD plate (and NSW )rooftop camper troopcarrier hipsters defecating and filming themselves all up and down carparks and surf spots on the west coast too.
Always in a group, clueless and entitled ...what a combo...
Do us a favor with ya drones and fly them up your own arse!
cunts
So that’s the dilemma.
Car loads of gronks, boat loads of gronks, plane loads of gronks. But they aren’t always gronks either. They can be cars, boats, and plane loads of absolute chargers and shredders. Vlogging.
All trying to figure out how to make a buck. Just like this website. Selling them all, anyone who’ll pay, all the reports, the battle to be the top of the heap report sellers.
Because no one wants the truth. No one wants to be the shift worker, stuck in the truck, boat, plane factory. They used to call them slaves.
How dare people travel and enjoy themselves. What a bunch of Karens you all are.
It's similar in Tassie, with every good looking couple in a troopy coming down and making a dozen vlogs about how quiet and beautiful it is, and that most of the camping is free. It's always the same - drone shots of car on dirt road, clip of them stirring porridge on the stove in the back of the troopy, them logging with one arm high up in the air but not really doing anything else, waxing lyrical about how empty it is and that we've got to do our best to protect it. It obviously works for them, because they're usually got some "link in bio" somewhere to skincare, designer towels, or some small boutique coffee company. Meanwhile I can think of two campspots on the coast that are closed now, and others that are getting renovated for what I can only imagine will be a paid booking system.
I reckon we should just stop with the content creation for a while. There's surely enough of it by now, and it might do us all some good if people can just go surfing without having to think of a way to turn it into a product or profit.
I imagine this is how people in less-economically developed countries feel when USA/Braz/Aus surfers barrel into their village:
'Non-racists' flicking money about, adopting an air of entitled self-importance, impressing the local girls and boys with their Great White Hope charisma, getting their Hemingway toys out and complaining about how much better the village used to be before all the blowins.
But in those places, they have the added indignity of being obliged to smile and enable the above behavior through economic-necessity. Actually, based on Up's Elliston treatise, maybe we in the regions are needing to encourage tourism-at-any-cost now too.
"I reckon we should just stop with the content creation for a while"
Unfortunately not going to happen Dan, we all know where hyper-capitalism and extreme individualism is leading us - everything is a product, including us.
With so many of those vids, the location is secondary, 80% of the time we see The Beautiful Ones staring into the camera, wrapped in their narcissistic introspection and droning on vacuously.
The narcissism epidemic is here.
"Does a narcissism epidemic exist in modern western societies? "
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5783345/
You can always hope and pray, or even grimace for that Baseless, but imagine the exact opposite! Imagine if they are your friends and family, and they love you, and love you being there with them! Can you? Can you without any doubt whatsoever rule that out? Can you open your mind to that possibility?
haha, sure, even had the pleasure of sharing that with people like that since the 70s.
But I was describing the thing that I was describing.
So that’s your reality baseless, not mine, but wish and grimace away if that’s your thing. Is it?
dandandan wrote:. Meanwhile I can think of two campspots on the coast that are closed now, and others that are getting renovated for what I can only imagine will be a paid booking system.
Funny you mention that dandandan. Stayed at Mayfield Beach campground for the first time in years a few months back and the council has basically gravelled the whole area. You literally need a rattle gun and fucking 6" batten screws as tent pegs just to pitch your tent. I suppose getting your $200k campervan bogged isn't much fun nowadays.
Some of these spots are surely not very welcoming to visiting surfers????
andy-mac wrote:Some of these spots are surely not very welcoming to visiting surfers????
Visiting surfers are welcome, the support crew not so much
chin wrote:andy-mac wrote:Some of these spots are surely not very welcoming to visiting surfers????
Visiting surfers are welcome, the support crew not so much
Was in that part of the world last year travelling with wifey and kid, no dramas.
I was not Vlogging :) ha
Hope to get back one day.
What about the way they all turn up at the same spot and pretend like they didn't know each other was going to be there
Bring their own cameraman, a couple of hangers on
Then get loud in the lineup talking about where all the banks are at "home"
dilmah wrote:What about the way they all turn up at the same spot and pretend like they didn't know each other was going to be there
Bring their own cameraman, a couple of hangers on
Then get loud in the lineup talking about where all the banks are at "home"
You ok Dilmah?
All surfers should be limited to surfing 5km from home, for up to a period of 2 hours, whilst travelling alone.
mikehunt207 wrote:hipsters defecating and filming themselves
One of our last soujourns, we loved the 'FOAT' sticker on a local's car and wondered if they sold them back at home lol
Also saw a surfing flash mob. 6 or 7 vans rocked up and a 79 series with tons of logs; we'd just gotten out and pitied the 5 or so poor buggers left in the water, about to be joined by 15 or so mals within 5 minutes. Never seen a surfing flash mob before.
Also about the troopies: drive a Land Rover and everyone will think you are a local as they are reputed to not be able to make it anywhere distant and back.
All things considered, that's pretty good of ya to follow up yer opening Dilmah
Just for that...tbb will trip out on yer wave length...
This is a big departure from tbb's above post...possibly even more whacky!
tbb can help explain wot ya think is goin' on & why ya feel left out.
Well at least yer main gripe...
As for wot surfer's say about other local breaks...all are guilty.
Plus all are listening...score!
Just sticking with the basic book ending technique...Huh!
Mostly coz it is an actual thing & not yer mind playing tricks!
Can recall the first time it happened to tbb...around 2010 or so...
Team Billabong taking over midday weekday Fingal Causeway by bookending each section.
Sure! There is a reason for this separation or pretending to not know one another 'in the lineup.'
It also woke tbb up to 'Pro' Professional Team Surfing...Very professional it was!
Apex rider muscles in & fluffs a drop in, gets excused but breaks the wave on the local...(All is cool!)
The next Billabong bookend knows the deal and is already up'n'riding on Tag Team's hand me down.
Then they work thru the line-up repeating the same bookend deal for each section.
Gives them choice to tag a mate on or to fluff up another sitter...either way the team riders are on a loop.
Recap :
This is why they seem to not know each other apart from hooting as they pass their tag zones.
The idea is to have each surfer on every wave that comes thru & it don't take long...
Lineup don't recognize tag team rotation of drop zones, so each slot into yer lineup as a new Play Pal.
But...hang on a bit...once ya clock one of these guys...they're pulling waves from outta their arse.
After a few sets ya think how lucky the guy is to be on a charmed wave cycle & him & his hooting mates
No drop ins, good as gold, each are yer mate in the lineup with Cheshire cat grins from ear to ear!
We all hear them...Wow! So cool mate ~ Never had so many Fantastic Waves ... so good huh!
Only takes 2 sets & Team lock in every wave, whole line-up fully wired...ain't nothing you can do.
They usually start at the Point & work their way down to the shorie...
This way they can scout whole line up for sweet spots & throw in an extra bookend to anchor it down.
One can sneak into the shorie...but as soon as one of the Team spots ya on a dreamboat...it's all over!
Fluff > Breaks wave > Oops, so sorry dude > Tag Team bags another runner...all the way thru.
So slick & slippery like a snake oil machine it is...How did tbb not know this!
They grin...coz they know yer onto them...give them the Aussie Salute as ya go in!
So much for that isolated Southern dream session!
Feel Free to trawl thru that for variations on a theme for yer strangers routine Dilmah.
Yes! The more Professional & larger the Surf Troupe the more sneaky & dominant the Lock out!
These guys know no other life...Hustlin' is what they do...yer not supposed to pick up on it.
Ya know what tbb is saying...takes a hustler to know when ya being hustled...
Just means tbb has a comp mind & could suss out the cycle...weekend crew are not likely onto it!
Not sayin' one has to play the victim...only if ya had a good session...don't fight it...cut yer losses.
But if ya hit the lineup as they do then ya gotta get louder or sit and watch...2 hours go by in 2 minutes.
Caspar's ~ Be Alarmed ... Nice Locals Only Flick
Gold
“Also about the troopies: drive a Land Rover and everyone will think you are a local as they are reputed to not be able to make it anywhere distant and back.”
dilmah wrote:Travelling in groups, surfing in packs, blatantly filming
Do they break every rule in the surfing handbook?
They bring nothing good to the communities we live in
Its been complained about before on here but its really bad at the moment
Travelling in groups, surfing in packs, blatantly filming
Do they break every rule in the surfing handbook?
They bring nothing good to the communities we live in
Its been complained about before on here but its really bad at the moment