Tracks

Tracks is Australia's leading surfing magazine. For over 40 years Tracks has tapped into the minds of cheeky grommets and grizzled gurus alike, and remains the voice of hardcore surfing in Australia today. Every month it takes you to the most exotic surfing locations, fills you in on what's happening on the pro-circuit as well as at your local beaches. Tracks is the surfer's bible.

A DIFFERENT SPIN • WHY SURFERS FEEL MORE CONNECTED TO THE FORCES OF CHANGE

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CLASSIC AD: JULY, 1992 HERRO & INSIGHT

CROSS-ROADS • Rising junior, Oscar Salt, fades left and moves into wide-open space.

LAURA ENEVER: LUST FOR LIFE • There isn’t much Laura won’t take on.

THE INDO MOTORCYCLE DIARIES: CHAPTER II • On the job in Bali and dialling in a board with Jim Banks.

EASY SLIDER • Blair Conklin is an ocean multi-instrumentalist, playing a rare tune that has united all the surfing tribes.

SURFABOUT ‘79 — THE GREATEST SURF SHOW EVER STAGED • In 1979 Paul Holmes was both Tracks Editor and Contest Director for the 2SM/Coca-Cola Surfabout. Below he reflects on his fabled call to take the event mobile by plane.

DEAN WILMOT: INFINITE WONDER • Why Dean Wilmot is still answering the call of Hawaii.

DARK LINEAGE

BONE DEEP AT SKELETON BAY • Two mates from Oz give an honest account of a strike mission to Namibia’s miracle left.

STOKING THE NEW WAVE OF INDIGENOUS TALENT • How Surfing Australia is cultivating Indigenous talent with its First Nations Youth High Performance Program.

UNEARTHED: PHOTOS FROM THE ARCHIVE OF STEPHEN COONEY • Simon Anderson, 1976

WATER COLOURED WAVES: PADANG PADANG • THE DISTILLED SURFING MEMORIES OF DAVE SPARKES.

SOLITUDE AT SEA

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LINEUP • GRANT ‘TWIGGY’ BAKER ENVELOPED IN A LUMINESCENT, DESERT OASIS.