{"id":121857,"date":"2025-11-28T08:47:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/?p=121857"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:12:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T05:12:26","slug":"robbie-page-the-cat-with-the-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/robbie-page-the-cat-with-the-cream","title":{"rendered":"Robbie Page &#8211; The cat with the cream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Written by Tim Baker<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This was taken from Issue 600 of our mag but is now available to read for free below.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Robbie Page\u2019s extraordinary life ever becomes a Netflix series (and here\u2019s hoping one day it will), I for one would binge the shit out of it. The new season has just dropped and some might think the script writers have jumped the shark \u2013&nbsp; TV industry slang for becoming ridiculously improbable (based on an episode of 60s nostalgia TV comedy Happy Days, wherein local tough guy\/heartthrob Fonzie jumped over a shark on his motorbike).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During our most recent chat, Robbie was admiring his newly born son, named Djalu, an Indigenous word meaning \u2018lightning\u2019, (in the Yolgnu language of Arnhem Land), after his partner Christie gave birth on Robbie\u2019s 58th birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou\u2019re like Mick Jagger now. You\u2019re a legend,\u201d Christie told Robbie, after Djalu\u2019s arrival. Christie is a fifth-generation fisherman\u2019s daughter from Barwon Heads and the former personal chef of Byron-based Hollywood hunk Chris Hemsworth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen Djalu\u2019s 22 I\u2019ll be 80,\u201d Robbie marvels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robbie has just signed a new contract with his former French clothing sponsor Oxbow, who based their campaigns around Robbie\u2019s radical surfing and outrageous on-land persona back in the 90s. \u201cRobbie is my wizard. He will be with Oxbow for life,\u201d Oxbow founder Fabrice Valeri once famously declared. Together they pioneered the Masters Surfing Titles, staged at Puerto Escondido and Tavarua in the late 90s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RobbiePaige_Day10-AussiePipe-Australie-Oxbow_TL_04288-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RobbiePaige_Day10-AussiePipe-Australie-Oxbow_TL_04288-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RobbiePaige_Day10-AussiePipe-Australie-Oxbow_TL_04288-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RobbiePaige_Day10-AussiePipe-Australie-Oxbow_TL_04288-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RobbiePaige_Day10-AussiePipe-Australie-Oxbow_TL_04288-391x260.jpg 391w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RobbiePaige_Day10-AussiePipe-Australie-Oxbow_TL_04288-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RobbiePaige_Day10-AussiePipe-Australie-Oxbow_TL_04288.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gliding with ease. Photo: Thomas Lodin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Changes of ownership scuttled Fabrice\u2019s bold promise but 30 years after Robbie\u2019s pro- surfing heyday, Oxbow have made a movie about their most colourful team rider. Walkabout \u2013 the songlines of surfing, celebrates Robbie\u2019s Indigenous ancestry and unwavering, freewheeling commitment to fully indulging his passion for surfing, refusing to yield to the passing of time. In Walkabout, Robbie\u2019s re-united with his old French surfing buddy Arnaud Mestelan and they roam the coast from Crescent Head to Bells Beach and back with Robbie\u2019s Indigenous mate, Wayne Carberry. Directed by award-winning director Matty Hannon (of Road to Patagonia fame), it\u2019s a gripping, poignant and hilarious documentary on one of our great surfing characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New baby. New sponsor. New film. Is 58 the new 30, or is Robbie simply such an enigma, so unbound by societal norms, that pedestrian matters like linear time and age simply do not apply? Certainly, the series so far supports the latter thesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"WALKABOUT - The Songlines of Surfing with Robbie Page &amp; Arnaud Mesteland\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QxGKv8EuaiM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who could forget season one, where a young, lily-white, blond-haired Robbie grew up in poverty in the Bellambi housing commission in Wollongong, brought up by his Indigenous mother and a largely absent Irish father. \u201cI\u2019m the original Houso,\u201d Pagey says. He recalls his mum sending him to the neighbours to ask for potatoes and other staples they couldn\u2019t afford. \u201cThat\u2019s what I grew up on. It was the most embarrassing, horrific thing ever.\u201d&nbsp; But the tough upbringing served him well when he made it on to the pro tour. \u201cI knew how to ask for sponsorship or a place to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ocean proved his salvation. \u201cI threw all my madness into the ocean,\u201d he declares in Walkabout.&nbsp; He remembers the \u2018repo man\u2019 banging on the door to re-possess their Christmas presents and household items bought on hire purchase, that his mum couldn\u2019t keep up payments for. Surfing provided a lifeline, his sharp intuitive skills perfectly suited to the abundant and varied waves of the NSW south coast. He found his ideal testing ground at Aussie Pipe and the ideal mentor in longtime goofy-foot standout, Terry Richardson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan088-Enhanced-SR-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan088-Enhanced-SR-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan088-Enhanced-SR-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan088-Enhanced-SR-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan088-Enhanced-SR-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan088-Enhanced-SR-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan088-Enhanced-SR-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan088-Enhanced-SR-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan088-Enhanced-SR.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Another page from the book of Robbie. Photo: Tim McKenna.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He remembers feeling like a wild horse who couldn\u2019t match it with the broken-in horses from good homes and families with solid education and polite manners. His only hope of survival was to unashamedly remain a wild horse. \u201cI kept getting kicked out of school and kicked off footy teams,\u201d he says, often for fighting or otherwise failing to conform. \u201cThe conformative stuff kills me. I\u2019m not interested in being your broken-in horse at all. I\u2019m not into being a good boy. I\u2019m not cultured. I\u2019m just going to remain a wild horse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was season two, where the Boy from Bellambi took his colourful act to the pro tour, a solid string of amateur results to his name, and a wild peer group of unapologetically loose units to spar with \u2013 Rod Kerr, Simon Law, Matt Hoy, John Shimooka (RIP), to name a few. The ASP tour of the late 80s and early 90s went to bustling coastal holiday towns in peak summer season, which often meant crap waves and wild nightlife. Pagey held down a solid top 30 spot for the best part of a decade, highlighted by his win in the 1988 Pipeline Masters and a leading role in cheesy Hollywood surf flick, The North Shore. His charismatic, manic charms earned him friends, sponsors, women, a glorious global adventure of good times and opportunity unfolding at his feet. The boy from the Houso made good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then there was season three and the script writers figured our hero had enjoyed enough good fortune and it was time for a little noir in his otherwise sunny world. Flying from Spain, where pot was legal and the small wave grovel-fest in Zarautz inspired wild partying, our boy landed in Tokyo for the Japanese leg of the Tour. Customs and immigration officers took one look at Robbie\u2019s long blond locks and colourful Oxbow fashion \u2013 all bright colours, flowers and bold patterns \u2013 and pulled him aside for the full treatment. They went through his luggage and personal effects with a fine-tooth comb, determined to find evidence of his unsuitability to enter a country that could not have been further removed from the liberal Spanish hedonism. The grim-faced officers grew increasingly agitated as they failed to find any contraband, until they got to his wallet and a small, folded square of blotting paper fell out. Robbie remembers it fluttering through the air in slow motion like a leaf and recalling with horror, \u2018the acid!\u2019 The residue of a huge night out in Zarautz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan044-Enhanced-SR-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan044-Enhanced-SR-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan044-Enhanced-SR-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan044-Enhanced-SR-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan044-Enhanced-SR-391x260.jpg 391w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan044-Enhanced-SR-600x398.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan044-Enhanced-SR.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Colourful kick-stall in shredded rubber. Photo: Tim McKenna.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pagey spent 88 days in solitary confinement in a Tokyo jail, occupying the same cell that former Beatle, Paul McCartney, briefly found himself in after a minor drug bust. He remembers watching the leaves on a tree outside his cell change from green to orange to red and then fall earthwards, realising he\u2019d been incarcerated through the change of seasons, his globe-trotting magical mystery tour suddenly brought to a halt. No one from the Association of Surfing Professionals, staging its Japanese events only a couple of hours drive away, did anything to advocate for their surfer or even visit him. It was left to his longtime shaper Phil Byrne to fly to Japan and try and assist. Robbie was eventually found guilty and deported. He flew straight to Hawaii on his existing ticket, hoping US customs wouldn\u2019t notice the cancelled stamp on his Japanese visa. He\u2019s always been an arsey bastard and sailed through Honolulu arrivals. The ASP Board voted to ban him from competition for 18 months, effectively bringing an end to his competitive career, despite the fact that many of those voting had been known to ingest the odd prohibited substance. He felt bitterly betrayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presumably the scriptwriters had studied Joseph Campbell\u2019s seminal text on story structure, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, and Campbell\u2019s theory of the Hero\u2019s Journey. Because the wild oscillations in fortune continued in season four. Within months of being released from a Tokyo prison, Robbie had returned to France to visit his sponsors and plead for leniency and be re-united with his French girlfriend, who happened to be the granddaughter of French President Francois Mitterrand. From solitary confinement to the Mitterrand\u2019s presidential palace in the space of a few months. Oxbow welcomed him back with open arms, unbothered by his brush with the Japanese penal system. And old Francois reportedly read an account of his granddaughter\u2019s boyfriend\u2019s ordeal in a major feature article in news magazine Paris Match and declared, \u201cRobbie has done nothing wrong\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robbie discovered the French sensibility, the open-mindedness and acceptance of difference, suited him better than the narrow thinking and conservatism of his homeland. He made France his home for 10 typically eventful years. His sometimes chaotic and shambolic life path belies a keen street smarts and shrewd judgement. He ran a bar on the beach in Hossegor for many years, did well with real estate, fathered two boys to his then-Moroccan girlfriend, threw himself into the early days of big-wave and tow surfing in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When that relationship fell apart in season five, he returned to Australia to lick his wounds and get in touch with his Indigenous ancestry. That led him to Crescent Head, halfway between Sydney and the Gold Coast, about as far as you can get from the surfing mainstream on the east coast of Australia, and home to a tight-knit Indigenous community, Saltwater People with a love of the ocean and wave riding. Even though it\u2019s over 500 km north of his \u2018Gong upbringing, it felt like coming home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan054-Enhanced-SR-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan054-Enhanced-SR-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan054-Enhanced-SR-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan054-Enhanced-SR-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan054-Enhanced-SR-600x402.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan054-Enhanced-SR.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rock-solid barrel stance serves as apt metaphor for a life where Pagey stood tall and smiled through all of life\u2019s trials. Photo: Tim McKenna.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He picked up an acreage property cheap halfway between Kempsey and Crescent, and threw himself into his surf wax business, Cream. His great, and sadly departed friend, surfer\/artist\/musician\/shaper, Chris Lundy, produced the logo and all the artwork for the brand on a visit from Hawaii, holed up in Robbie\u2019s rustic beach shack, fed a diet of good food and primo weed. Robbie\u2019s two sons, Ismael and Brooman, now big, strapping lads, moved out from France and helped with the family business, pouring wax into moulds, packing it and cruising up and down the coast selling it to surf shops with their dad. Along the way, he picked up an ISA World Masters Title in Peru, forsaking his beloved herb for a full two weeks to ensure he could pass the mandatory drug testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He eventually opened a surf shop of his own on the road into Crescent, a form of hilarious, grunge surf commerce, equal parts business and theatre. Customers can have little idea what they are in for when they pull over at the non-descript industrial estate and walk through his doors. Here Robbie holds court, giving full expression to his wide-ranging views on everything from Indigenous culture, the state of the surf industry, the spiritual failings of White Australia, what\u2019s wrong with pro-surfing and the attitudes of surfers in the water at our more crowded surf spots. It\u2019s a rolling, free range manifesto that unfolds in rapid fire bursts of passion, jumping from one topic to another, like a pin board of events in a true crime podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And he\u2019s recently returned to Hawaii for the first time in 18 years, to renew old acquaintances with the locals and his beloved Pipeline. He recalls sitting on a bench at Pipe, a memorial to his old friend and fellow Pipe Master, Derek Ho, watching the majestic wave do its thing, wondering if he still had what it took to paddle out and pull in. He ran into Derek\u2019s cousin Mason Ho, who calls Robbie Uncle, and the pair paddled out together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RobbiePaige_Day5-GreatOceanRoad-Australie-Oxbow_TL_07404-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RobbiePaige_Day5-GreatOceanRoad-Australie-Oxbow_TL_07404-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RobbiePaige_Day5-GreatOceanRoad-Australie-Oxbow_TL_07404-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RobbiePaige_Day5-GreatOceanRoad-Australie-Oxbow_TL_07404-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RobbiePaige_Day5-GreatOceanRoad-Australie-Oxbow_TL_07404-391x260.jpg 391w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RobbiePaige_Day5-GreatOceanRoad-Australie-Oxbow_TL_07404-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RobbiePaige_Day5-GreatOceanRoad-Australie-Oxbow_TL_07404.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pagey has never been a passenger in his own life. Photo: Thomas Lodin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI got annihilated in the barrel. It\u2019s been 18 years, I couldn\u2019t believe the force,\u201d he says. The pair wiped out on consecutive waves leading to a strange underwater meeting. \u201cMason\u2019s body gets driven right through mine under water, he pushed and kicked me away. I pop up. He goes, Uncle, you okay? I\u2019ve never met anyone under water before,\u201d Robbie laughs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He drew inspiration from Mason\u2019s dad, Michael, a pro-surfing pioneer and ageless charger. \u201cMichael\u2019s out there at 66. You\u2019ve got to live that wild cowboy life to pull it off,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robbie has strong views on how surfing generally, and pro-surfing in particular, treats its Elders. He reckons every former pro tour surfer should be granted a certificate for coaching and judging upon retirement, without having to jump through the various administrative hoops required, arguing they\u2019ve already graduated from the most elite surfing finishing school. While he sees young Aussie pro-surfers fawn and cower to the Hawaiian locals, he says they show no such respect to their surfing Elders at home. And while he often espouses a rose-tinted peace and love world view, he\u2019s not averse to threats of violence in the water, one more example of Robbie\u2019s mad bi-polar ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need a whole change in Australia in the water. Anywhere I paddle out in Australia and cunts don\u2019t show respect, Brooman will throw them into the trees. They don\u2019t have to worry about me. We\u2019re a three-man team. We\u2019ve got to change this fucking game,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RobbiePaige_Day5-GreatOceanRoad-Australie-Oxbow_TL_07413-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RobbiePaige_Day5-GreatOceanRoad-Australie-Oxbow_TL_07413-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RobbiePaige_Day5-GreatOceanRoad-Australie-Oxbow_TL_07413-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RobbiePaige_Day5-GreatOceanRoad-Australie-Oxbow_TL_07413-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RobbiePaige_Day5-GreatOceanRoad-Australie-Oxbow_TL_07413-391x260.jpg 391w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RobbiePaige_Day5-GreatOceanRoad-Australie-Oxbow_TL_07413-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RobbiePaige_Day5-GreatOceanRoad-Australie-Oxbow_TL_07413.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Anywhere\u2019s a stage for Robbie Page. Photo: Thomas Lodin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the heart of the Australian malady, he sees a failure to come to terms with our colonial history, to recognise the great national treasure we have in the oldest living culture on the planet. \u201cWhite Australia is spiritually bankrupt,\u201d he declares boldly, before embarking on one of his more esoteric, existential rants. \u201cIf you\u2019re man trying to be spirit then you\u2019re gone, there\u2019s no butterfly for the caterpillar. We\u2019re spirit trying to be human.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What gives him hope is the power of surfing to uplift Indigenous communities and offer a joyful common ground for black and white Australia. He\u2019s formed his own Indigenous surfing brand, Royal Indigenous Surfing Company, with the mantra, \u201cWalking and surfing together to make a better world.\u201d He sponsors a few young Indigenous surfers and draws spiritual sustenance from the great gathering of the Indigenous surfing titles at Bells Beach, Victoria, each year. Robbie has four Indigenous masters (over 35s) surfing titles to his credit and one Grand Kahuna (over 50) title and is passionate about promoting Indigenous surfing as a way of empowering First Nations people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s a mass celebration of freedom, they are a modern-day corrobboree. It\u2019s not one Indigenous group in control and we all get there together, everybody goes, the Victorian guys run a good show. It\u2019s the most wholesome Indigenous surf comp I\u2019ve been a part of. Our little girls are crazy surfers.\u201d Indeed, Rob sees women\u2019s surfing as the purest element of the sport these days, with less of the ego and posturing of its testosterone-fueled male counterpart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a crisp Autumn evening as the sun sets on a small industrial enclave on the outskirts of Kempsey on the road into Crescent Head on the NSW mid-north coast. There is clearly mischief afoot, a sense of brewing energy, a fitting finale to season six.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"685\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan052-Enhanced-SR-edited-685x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan052-Enhanced-SR-edited-685x1024.jpg 685w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan052-Enhanced-SR-edited-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan052-Enhanced-SR-edited-768x1149.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan052-Enhanced-SR-edited-300x449.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan052-Enhanced-SR-edited-600x897.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tracksmag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Scan052-Enhanced-SR-edited.jpg 1003w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Weightless drift above a curling lip. Photo: Tim McKenna.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A row of vans has parked behind the Cream surf shop, featuring an over-sized mural of an iconic image of Pagey coolly bottom turning at massive Pipeline, painted on the side of the brown brick building. Musical instruments, cartons of beer and eskies full of food are being unloaded, as the proprietor himself is ensconced in the backroom of the surf shop wrestling with an apparatus known as \u2018The Volcano\u2019. This balloon like device allows for the inhalation of vast clouds of vapour generated by heating cannabis buds, without the adverse health impacts of smoking \u2013 important when your consumption is as prodigious as Robbie\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s heaps of dope in the film,\u201d Robbie declares proudly. In fact, this very same volcano makes several cameos in the film. \u201cI\u2019m the number one advocate for the herb. I believe it\u2019s a medicine of God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walkabout screens to a full house, in a cavernous warehouse space next to the Cream surf shop, as the Crescent Head surf community gather to hoot and holler, and Rob appears buoyed by the community support. Afterwards there\u2019s a free-ranging jam session, featuring a cast of accomplished musicians, including Robbie\u2019s legendary blues singer sister Gail, whose powerhouse vocals bring to mind Aretha Franklin. Gail\u2019s been on her own harrowing journey, and like surfing for her little brother, music has gotten her through. 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