Bombora: The Story of Australian Surfing Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - Bombora, Pt. 2In the early days of Australia's surf history, young people found a place to live out their dreams of innocence and freedom in the surf, but it wasn't to last. With the Vietnam War came an influx of drugs and surfers led a rebellious counter-culture as they dropped out of society to escape to country towns along the coast, while elsewhere a group of entrepreneurial surfers began backyard businesses making wetsuits and board shorts. Part two of Bombora looks at the later years of Australian surf history from 1967 to the present.
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Episode 1 - Bombora, Pt. 1Global surfing culture is a mix of wildness, grace and cool that is utterly Australian, but how did a nation of people, who mostly couldn't swim, turn a Polynesian pastime into a national obsession and international cultural force? From the time we first took on the waves in the late 19th century, Australians were hooked on surfing. Part one of Bombora looks at the early years of Australian surf history from 1830 to 1964.
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