I would like the story on Kirra to be dedicated to John Charlton.
Without John Kirra would not have been the first surfriders club.
My most funny, memorable, best, insane, surf contest, experience, party etc.
in Kirra Surfriders Club was when we went down to Byron Bay for a surf with a lot of the Kirra guys and we booked into 'The Great Northern Hotel' which was owned by Peter Burke (who was one of the Aussies who went to Hawaii in 1960) at that stage there was a craze called bottle top flicking, sometimes they could be flicked an incredible distance.
We were on the balcony of the hotel and someone flicked a top, you wouldn't believe it, the cops were driving by at that moment and it hit the car .
The cops were straight into "Burkey' and told him to either throw us out or they would close the pub down. Once again the Kirra boys had created another first.
Joe Larkin