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smorgasboarder the original Long Reef shack new digs at Boomerang Beach Jeff (fourth from left) and the boys 26
smorgasboarder long live the shack words: jeff morris My friends and I grew up as part of the Long Reef Boardriders Association back in the 60’s and 70’s. Our “away” surf trips were mostly up the coast from Sydney to the Boomerang/Bluey’s Beach area. We stayed in tents, caravans and beach shacks - they were shacks back then. We even had our own shack back at Longy, imaginatively called the “Shack”, someone’s old abandoned holiday retreat that we made our own for a few years. It brought us all together when it was cold, wet and surfless. More than 30 years ago, when we were all getting married, having families and mortgaging our first fibro castles, we decided to have a week/end (depending on how long you could get a leave pass for) surf trip back to Boomerang. It was so good we just kept doing it for the next 30+ years. We’ve stayed in a few beach shacks in the area since then and had a good time in all of them. My favourite is the one we have booked for the last 10 or so years, with views up and down the beach from a sensational surf watching, beer drinking, bullshit-talking balcony. It’s not the Ritz but it ain’t a shack either. Saturday nights all right for BBQing and there’s usually at least 15 of us, a large percentage doing their bit towards the culinary event of the year. Not everyone from back then makes the annual trip, it’s not everyone’s thing. For those of us that still keep coming back, it’s probably more about the continuation of a great life, still hanging out and still doing dumb stuff, occasionally surfing and having fun with guys who you’ve known for 45 plus years; guys you grew up with who feel more like family than just mates. Long live the beach shack, whatever form it takes these days. 27
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