Book description
On the Road meets Endless Summer as Tim Baker, bestselling author of
Occy, High Surf and Bustin' Down the Door, embarks on the classic
surfing road trip around Australia. All surfers dream of shedding
responsibilities and answering the siren's call of ocean swells. For
most, it is an ideal that recedes as age advances - as family, career
and provider fatigue threatens to overwhelm the wanderlust of youth. But
what if you could defy the slow march of age? Shelve all your worldly
pressures, pack up the family and a few trusty surfboards and hit the
open road for the Great Australian surfing road trip? Inspired by the
dreams of his youth, surf writer Tim Baker embarks on the Big Lap in
search of the perfect wave and domestic bliss. Surfari documents the
state of surf culture and our coastline, and the array of colourful
characters who inhabit these parts, evoking all the magic, charm and
challenges such a lifestyle entails. It is a story for anyone who has
ever dreamed of an alternative to the busy, micro-scheduled existence of
work, school, shopping and the daily drudge. The result is a lively,
colourful account of what happens when you trade your life for another
variety, and the delights and dangers that lay in wait when you dare to
chase your dreams and follow another path. Tim Baker is the
best-selling author of Bustin' Down The Door, High Surf , Occy and Surf
For Your Life. He is a former editor of Tracks and Surfing Life
magazines. He has twice won the Surfing Australia Hall of Fame Culture
Award and been nominated for the CUB Australian Sports Writing Awards.
His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, the Sydney Morning Herald, the
Australian Financial Review, the Bulletin, Inside Sport, Playboy, GQ,
the Surfers Journal, Qantas - the Australian Way, as well as surfing
magazines around the world. He is currently a senior contributor to
Surfing World, Surfer's Path (UK), the Surfers Journal and US Surfing
and Surfer magazines. He has appeared at the Sydney and Byron Bay
Writers Festivals, and has conducted writing workshops at the Hunter,
Sydney and the Northern Rivers Writers Centre. At 45, he has worked in
the media and surfing magazines for 25 years and has surfed and traveled
throughout Australia, Indonesia, Hawaii, Central and South America,
North America, Europe, South Africa, Fiji, Tahiti, and Sri Lanka. He
lives in Currumbin, Queensland, with his wife and two children.
