A FLINDERS surfer has voiced concern after a recent Navy training exercise above Flinders Beach saw a live-firing exercise reportedly take place as he and other surfers were in the water. Paul, who asked not to use his surname, said it was not uncommon to surf at Flinders Beach while Navy exercises were undertaken at the nearby West Head Gunnery Range on top of the cliffs – with surfers out of any live-firing zone and warnings sounded from the Navy to the alert the public as a precaution.There are two main surf breaks at Flinders called Meanos and Gunnery. Meanos…
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THE Peninsula Surfriders Club (SRC) have celebrated a significant achievement after claiming the top spot in the 2024 Hyundai Australian Boardriders Battle (ABB) regional qualifier.Hosted at the iconic Smith Beach on Phillip Island on October 6, surfers battled it out with waves of two to three feet high. The first semi-final saw 13th Beach and Torquay start off evenly matched, with both teams’ first surfers scoring high 6-point rides. Then, Torquay’s second surfer, Xavier Huxtable, broke the tie with a 7.27-point ride for two big backhand hooks. But with five out of their six waves scored, Peninsula were comfortably in…
STANDING on the beach looking towards the horizon the lines of swell look like corduroy. A couple of hundred metres south, the same swell lines radiate like spokes from a wheel from a rocky point. A pleasing enough sight to some, but pure patterns of nature to Anthony Wood.Wood’s thoughts of patterns invariably lead him to seeing patterns in just about anything.The Mount Martha artist goes for a walk, sees trees, leaves and seeds and thinks of patterns.A keen surfer, he looks at and photographs cliffs and surf breaks around the Mornington Peninsula and imagines how they would look if…