Vaughan Blakey

Jan 14, 2025 | swellnet.com | Stu Nettle |Vaughan Blakey

Words by Vaughan Blakey, photos by Swilly, captions by someone who wasn't even there. There's no better way to ease yourself into a new competitive surfing season than by marinating for an entire weekend in coconut oil, melanomas, bush buds, and pissed Queenslanders. That’s essentially what the Burleigh Single Fin Festival is: a time capsule of Australian surf culture dug up from under Dwayne Harris’s front verandah and poured out onto Burleigh Headland.