I always loved the description of Winkipop




Winkipop - The NameBy Paul ‘Chicken’ Dyer [Written 2006] Surfing in Australia and in general has such a short history when compared to many other sports. For the vast majority of our surf breaks,the very people that named them or the people they’ve been named after are still alive, and I believe it’s very important to get these stories out there before it’s too late to hear them first hand.Lucky for me I have the honour of knowing a man who surfed Winkipop in the very early 60’s, with a group of mates from Melbourne and Torquay who stood on the beach one day wondering what they should call this place.His name is Roger Falahey, [born 1940] who used to drive down from Melbourne most weekends to surf a great wave called Bells Beach.

A few of the names he threw around that used to trek through the Bells family property to get to the beach were Brian Trist (Tristy, a plumber from Melbourne), Brian Poynton and a local Peter Troy whose dad owned the local newsagency, and who Roger believes was one of the first few blokes to do a surf safari around the globe.Roger tells- quote “one weekend Tristy drove down from Melbourne and brought with him some plumbers piping and timber. They then dug in some steps and erected a small handrail to get better access from the small grassy ledge on the right side of the creek at Bells. Those original steps lasted for about 10 years”.They back then had another problem, there wasn’t a toilet so they had to do their business in the creek and used to call it **** Creek. On another day they brought down enough timber and corrugated iron, dug a hole and erected a dunny on the small grassy patch where you now head up to the Bells cliff. Roger says but by Sunday someone had ripped it down. He doesn’t know why but maybe for firewood.I asked him if they used to surf Winki then and he said why? we had Bells. Occasionally we’d paddled over to the next right now Centreside or even around to Southside.

Roger said Tristy had a couple of body building mates from Melbourne that would come down to Torquay for weekends and camp with him. One of Tristys older mates was a guy called Bill Keenan. Roger explained how Tristy and Bill Keenan used to always use a certain code word while joking around. Bill used to party with some serious party girls in Melbourne and one particular lady, who apparently couldn’t get enough,if you know what I mean, used to always say to Bill come on “let’s go have a Winkipop”. Sex in her words. The name was born.Roger Falahey remembers one day at Bells, he reckons about eight of them thought they would check out this wave they could see to the left of Bells. After paddling around the point now known as the button and surfing, a few of them were standing on the beach wondering what they should call this place. History has it Tristy looked to the ground and saw two crabs linked end to end and said to his mates “ look, they’re having a winkipop.”I asked Roger, after this day did you surf Winki much? To his reply “yeah,too right we did”.

Snapper Rocks is named after the breed of fish not snapped boards.

Laceys Lane was named after the great Lacey.

s h i t Pipe - Isle of Man is a ripper of a name

Sh|t spot,everyone knows of a sh|t Spot.

TOS = The Other Side



of what you may ask? the southport seaway

bazz61 said..
Mangahume, Opunake, a classic A frame reef break that can peel off for 150 plus meters ...

I have had some great waves there over the years also like the left that you access through the same paddock

Ted may know this one "Buggary's" it's near where he used to live.I surfed it with a 3 mates one day about 29 years ago!

E T said...
A few from my past if I may:-

Sandshoes - had lots of sea urchins, so you may need to wear em.
The Wall - cause there was a big wall there.
Telephones - there were these sand retaining structures made out of telephone poles.
Green Hills - pretty obvious.
Voodoo - don't know why, but I think because it was spooky.
The Bay - a long right hand sand break that broke occasionaly inside the bay.

All above are in the same area.

ET.

You maybe too young to remember Red House

boneyards....was more of a cheese grater for flesh and bones

red sands....not sure why as it was just a death tube. was told the dick draggers renamed it

would like to know how mystics got to be called that

headlands...that was obvious

spookies....

what about the Ox...classic aussie slang in shorting names or bestowing a nick name with a play on words

Found out a couple of weeks ago from an old local that my local spot was referred to as Monster Point. Cool name but for all the wrong reasons

One of the local right handers is nicknamed "DILDOS". Dunno why haha

Hungry head-because the sharks ARE!

THE BOX

BOG WORKS.... a reef break in the centre of New Plymouth NZ , about 150 meters off shore, was un surfable due to sewage pipe located in front , then a forward thinking Mayor, David Lean, built a treatment plant and eliminated the sewage problem , this was the view from my front lawn , the take off spot was lined up from my bedroom window , was my 1st home I payed cash ( 65 grand) 30 years ago, after working on Woodside train 1 & 2 , Karratha , mid 80s, living the dream at age 26 , was surfing the reef when my wife was in labour with 1st child,( was my flatmate ..yeah I screwed the crew..!) her sister said i'll wave you in when the contractions get closer together ... sold it worst mistake ever...!

Great pics Bazza ! Imagine what the Harbour would have been doing on that day. I imagine you used to surf down there a fair bit when it was on. Any good pics of it?

We used to surf a place called Rolling Stones - every time you duck dived on a solid swell you could hear all the boulders getting washed around.The place next door was called Annihilations - you took off very close to some big rocks and if you went down - it could be all over. There is another wave just inside that called Tracks - after the railway that runs past the coast line. Blacks was called blacks due to the colour of the sand. And a final wave of interest called Last Chance that always seemed to have a wave when no one else did. Not a bad collection of names for a nice little isolated community. Certainly a bit more thought went into those than a few around these parts!

I did like those "nulla ones though. Northern beaches spots are pretty dull in comparison Little Narra - the small beach just north of Narra !