Last Dance

It was a Sunday that saw Sunny Garcia ringing the bell of the 2000 Rip Curl Pro on a beach called Gibson’s Steps, a couple hours to the south of Bells Beach. Due to small conditions the contest had been moved there and the awards ceremony had taken place on the afternoon sand. In a move that Rip Curl’s CEO Claw Warbrick called ‘organic’ the famed belled trophies were offered from atop an esky of post-contest Tooheys Dry and a couple of cartons of Chitticks meat pies.