Sourced in CJ “Snowy” McAlister’s photo album, courtesy Surfworld, Torquay
Here’s a couple of deadset surfer girls – Tanya Binning and Phyllis O’Donnell – posing for the great Sydney solid-board surfer and toothpick veteran ‘Snowy’ McAlister on an unknown beach in the mid 1960s. Not long after this, Binning graduated from a competitive teenage surf rat to a series of minor movie acting roles in London and New Zealand. O’Donnell’s ‘just do it’ approach to surfing, both before and after her world title victory in 1964, has continued to inspire generations of women to defy the odds and take up the sport. Huge thanks to Craig Baird of Surfworld, Torquay, for letting us check out this album.