Keith Platt

LAST weekend’s scheduled Point Leo Vintage Surf Day will now be held on Sunday 23 November. The same deadly and damaging storms that caused the cancellation of the Sunday 26 October vintage surf day saw two surfers die off Frankston beach and calls for help made to emergency services across the peninsula. “Due to a very bad forecast for our vintage day and the grounds being underwater, we have had to move the day to Sunday 23 November,” event coordinator Phil Newman told exhibitors last Thursday.

LEFT, right, hollow, peak, wall, cutback, closeout, fast-breaking, top to bottom, glassy, swell, sand bar or reef. The words regularly used by surfers can be confusing to the uninitiated, but to those who know all of these words relate to waves. But then comes a whole lot of other descriptors relating solely to surfboards: rails, rocker, width, length, concave, nose, shoulder, tail, volume and fins (surf mats, surf skis and stand up paddle boards can also be included).

THE death on Sunday 5 October of former Mornington Peninsula Shire councillor and long time campaigner for the environment, Leigh Eustace, has left an intellectual gap in the ranks of those opposed to over development. Eustace was described by former council colleagues as courageous, tenacious, pugnacious with a forensic intensity and uncompromising integrity in his council work on behalf of the community.