Rare footage of Victoria's first surfers in 1920 - “Surfing Hawaiian Redwood Boards at Lorne”

From Craig Baird at the Australian National Surfing Museum: “This is footage from Lorne in the early 1920s showing the earliest surfing in Victoria. Wealthy Geelong sports enthusiast Louis Whyte travelled to Hawaii in 1919, spent six months learning to surf at Waikiki and bought four surfboards from Duke Kahanamoku before returning home to surf at Lorne and Anglesea. 

“The footage was recorded by Frank Beaurepaire who would go on to become Lord Mayor of Melbourne - he was a world- class swimmer and good mate of Duke’s." 

All four of these boards still exist bt the way.

 TAKE THE TRIP TO 1920 HERE