You sometimes get a sense Drew has been summoned from the seventies to save the future. The blue denim and chambre shirt combo, the blonde mop and sideburns, the love of single-fins and throwback craft all create the visage. He was also living at Angourie for a few years, which really warped time around him. But beyond all this Drew has a very seventies way of seeing the world… and it’s a world that needs saving.
Drew grew up in Catherine Hill Bay, south of Newcastle, and watched on as the heritage coal town was transformed into suburbia by the sea. He then discovered, to his horror, that the ocean north and south of Catho was an active gas exploration lease, with plans for gas rigs along the horizon. He…
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Surfing World (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 424