Surfabout Magazine

In response to the growth in popularity of surfing in the early 1960s Australian surfing magazines started to appear, detailing what was happening in surfing in Australia. Jack Eden was a photographer and saw the advantage f aligning his work with stories about local surfers and beaches. This magazine, featuring indigenous Australian themes in its cover art, is the 1st Edition of 'Surf About' a quarterly magazine published from August 1962 to 1968. The name itself was an adaptation of the indigenous term "Walk About".