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 DRUG CALLED NOSTALGIA • GETTING HIGH ON LOOKING BACK

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‘FREE RIDE’ REFLECTIONS • SHAUN TOMSON REVISITS A GOLDEN ERA ON THE NORTH SHORE

HEAD DIPS

CLASSIC AD: OCTOBER 1970 ISSUE #1

ARTISANS – NATHAN OLDFIELD SEA GAZER

WORDS OF WISDOM: JODIE COOPER

PLAY IT LOUD: GULLY DAYS • FOUR SYDNEY SURFERS WITH A KILLER LIVE ACT AND A KNACK FOR CATCHY SONGS

IN SEARCH OF GOODVIBES • Tony Edwards wanted to be a painter but Captain Goodvibes had other ideas

THE MOON SET OVER CASA DO CORREIRA • Seeking Arcadia on Portugal’s Algarve coast

DARK LINEAGE

LAST DANCE IN BRAZIL • A bittersweet finale to a pro-surfing romance

BUKIT BOOGIE • John Ogden returns to Bali’s Bukit Peninsular 40 years after his last visit and finds things have changed a little

AN OVERTURE TO ‘IN DEEP’ • Matt George’s stories are like spears of light illuminating the disparate experiences of a surfing life.

FURTHER FROM THE SUN • A selection of images which celebrate that magic time of year when the axial tilt of Earth shifts the Southern Hemisphere a little further from our life-giving star.

THE BORA RING • The story of a young surfer’s coming of age in Burleigh Heads, Aboriginal mythology, and a magic pair of board shorts.

HIT & RUN • Damian ‘Damo’ Pears was enjoying a surf like any other, until a rogue waterspout made it a hell of a lot more interesting.

THE MOST SIGNIFICANT EVENT IN THE HISTORY OF SURFING • Lauren Hill’s film, ‘Physics of Noseriding’ delivers a ten-minute crash course in the physics of getting ten toes over the nose.

UNEARTHED: PHOTOS FROM THE ARCHIVE OF STEPHEN COONEY

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

RASTA AND THE ISLAND OF NO-WHERE

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