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UNEARTHED: PHOTOS FROM THE ARCHIVE OF STEPHEN COONEY

To pinpoint when I first met and surfed with Peter Townend would be a guess. In the late 60s/early 70s I was surfing North Narrabeen and would be onboard Col Smith’s VW Combi for the annual sojourn to the Coolangatta area, so that seems to make sense. To me ‘PT’ was always the perennial ‘professional surfer’, determined

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