Wacky Wednesday: The Line Up

Whilst sitting out at backline this morning, bobbing up & down in the solid swell out at North beach, I cast my eyes over the classically crowded line up. Whilst scanning the group of neoprene cladded surfers I noticed the array of different individuals who had shown up to do the same thing. Examining some of the usual, unusual and, on occasion, downright terrifying characters that populated this blue savannah my brain flashed back to issue 41.1 of the Zag where Glen Drysdale aptly described the lads and lasses you so often see floating around you. At the end of the day,  whether you like it or not, just like that weird cousin we all have, these people of the sea are family.  Introducing the first of many characters in: THE LINE UP Words by Glen Drysdale/ Illustrations by Studio Kronk THE HIPSTER Recently acquired an asymmetrical haircut, whilst listening to Enya at a Barber shop with one of those automated, revolving candy striped signs at the entrance, not far from his Vespa, which dons a Che Guevara sticker on the front mud guard. He rides either a Bob Simons single planning hull, fish or wooden single fin with a […]