Babes on Waves

Tia Mandu and her surfing family 😍

Wishing you 🌞 and offshore 🌊 to everyone this weekend, especially the winner of the 2022 Australian Logger Title, 🙌 Here she is in Noosa strolling down for a wave with her mate sometime last year.

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Gill has been shaping for a couple of years and has generously shared the knowledge she has learnt along the way on her account Shaped by She]. The documenting of her shaping education has cracked open a window into the intense learning process that's often shrouded in mystique 🧙‍♀️🔮

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Cool as a cucumber 🥒

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Kerry has always created, whether it be drawing, collage, painting or ceramics. Her felted artworks began as an experiment for a women’s surf film screening in Torquay.

‘It came about as a happy accident. I think the first one took maybe four hours to create and now pieces can take up to 40 hours. So whilst I do love the more complex and detailed artworks I'm now creating, part of me still wants to go back to that simplicity.

I guess that's kind of like surfing, you can go out and get the fanciest board and all the gear, but at the end of the day, you just want the simplicity of paddling out and catching a wave.'

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Where there is Jess, there is Button 🐕 - the dream team 🥰

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In celebration of we’ll be featuring the amazing ⚡️ Jessi Rebel ⚡️] in a series of posts this week. I loved meeting with Jessi - we chatted in her studio and the interview was by far the longest out of everyone I have spoken to - so much to discuss! I can't wait to catch up with her again for more chats next week 😍

Over the past ten years Jessi has been exploring her family’s history and discovered her Wiradjuri ancestry. ‘There was a generation of my family that were able to pass as white so they were able to leave the mission and move to Sydney to find work. So basically if they could deny being Aboriginal, they could get a job. My family didn't identify as being Aboriginal, but my nan knew so she passed it on to my aunty and my mum. My Aunty Lisa has picked it back up, and is trying to put all the pieces back together from what was lost through that period of time. It's been a slow journey, but one thing that I've learned is that it is already part of who I am, it's part of my spirit.’
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🏄🏾‍♀️ ⚡️ Jessi Rebel ⚡️]

Finding time to surf when you've got kids can be more than a little tricky. When Heidi has the occasional full day to herself she surfs allllllll day. ‘I’m up before the sunrise and then I'm surfing until the moon comes up, I make the most of every second in the water. The waves don’t have to be perfect but I'll still be out there.’ 🙌

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It's been a cheeky year since we last posted... hello again 👋✌

Hey Surf Coast community! Come and be your covid safe selves and stand in solidarity with black, indigenous and people of colour as part of worldwide action. ‘Unity is the only way to make real change’
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Saturday June 6th, 7:30am Point Roadknight
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To learn more about the First Nations culture here in Australia head to , to stand together in protecting country support , and for indigenous justice back
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See you Saturday morning!