LiQUiFY Magazine December 2014 | Page 17

Sliding across from Little Mali into the bay, Craig shows us that there’s still a few classic summery moments to be had these days, looking like something out of the sixties, complete with a luxury yacht crew looking on // Photo Anthony Brooks was good to see some young kids with a lot of great style in their noseriding and to see how much interest young kids still have in that approach and that style of surfing.” Noosa is just a longboarders paradise, if there was no crowd that is, but what’s the longboard scene like down on the Goldy? “It’s a good sort of scene up there, but it is changing on the Gold Coast. Our waves are probably a little bit more consistent, a little more powerful compared to say Noosa, so your approach with things like noseriding needs to be a little bit different I think, slightly different equipment works a bit better so - it’s interesting how it changes from coastline to coastline.” So you’d have a lot of different boards running right? What are you on these days? “I’ve got a noserider that I like a lot that I designed with Wayne Lowen, it’s a ten foot LiQUiFY | 17