Growing up in a surfing family, I never really had a chance not to get sucked into surfing and the surfing subculture. From as early as I can remember I have been aware of surfing, going to the beach to watch surfing, hanging around with my fathers surfing mates, and eventually transitioning into living this lifestyle myself. For most surfers I imagine surfing was almost a rebellious activity. For me it was as normal as riding a bike, it was expected.
My father has been surfing since 1958 and is still surfing today at 66 years old. When I was growing up I used to go through his old surf photo albums and try to imagine what it was like surfing when the sport was in its infancy. I recently transferred many of these photos into digital format. The following are a selection that I really like.
The top shot is my father Mike Court "in the curl" as they called it in May 1964 at Manu Bay, Raglan. The photo was voted photo of the year by Australian Surfing Life magazine in the same year.
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