The Haleiwa section from "High On a Cool Wave"

From Bob Evan's fifth film. This clip is the original unrestored footage from Australia’s National Film & Sound Archive, dated January 1968. 

Surfers include Peter Drouyn (on his first trip to Hawaii), Mike Doyle, Joey Cabell, Nat Young ("on a radical vee-bottom"), Ben Apia, & Ricky Grigg.

FROM THE CURATOR’S NOTES:

"In one of the first big swells on the North Shore of Hawaii in January 1968, the cream of the world’s surfers gather to size each other up at Haleiwa.

"The middle of the film is all set in Hawaii, most of it following a hot new Australian surfer, Peter Drouyn, as he makes his Hawaiian debut. Drouyn, born in 1949, had won the Queensland championship at 15, in 1965.

"That same year he won the NSW junior championship as well, even after he was badly assaulted by some surfers at Manly, the night before the contest. This footage is from late 1967-early 1968, shortly after his 18th birthday. In 1970, he was ranked number one surfer in the world.”

 READ MORE & WATCH THE VID - the teaser of the Hawaiian section 

Dug up by PLB’s honorary archive detective Ian Lording

NARRATOR: RENNIE ELLIS

PRODUCER & WRITER: BOB EVANS