A slice of bucolic heaven.
The Western Australian surf great Taj Burrow is one of the few high-profile shredders from the nineties who didn’t invest his formidable bankroll in hookers, Balinese bars and coke.
Instead, Burrow, who will turn forty-three in June, has squandered his fortune building a property portfolio that includes a Tuscan-inspired villa overlooking Mackenzies Bay in Tamarama, Sydney, bought for 2.3 mill and valued six years later at four-mill and, now, eleven acres of bucolic loveliness fifteen minutes from Yallingup’s white-sand beaches and unforgiving reefs.
Right now, the joint has a shed that’s been converted to a house as well as a small dam. 
Burrow’s principal residence is the award-winning “nautilus shell” house in Wardanup Crescent, Yalls, aka “millionaire’s row” by architect Dane Richardson. The property was bought for two-milll in 2004 and the new place was built in 2011, winning the overall Design Excellence Award at the 2012 Building Designers Australia WA.
“I pushed through with many questions but the owner travels most of the year and was young without family so it was hard to pin down exactly what was required. The brief then developed to include a small pool, a lot of storage space, small home office, games room large enough for pool table and a large open fire place for ambiance,” Richardson told Architect and Design. “The master bathtub was positioned to have a commanding view of the clients favourite surf break. This was managed by loading our 3D model into Google Earth and tweaking the alignment of this particular window to the surf break. Another nice touch was to include a roof top deck; this is a small space sitting high on the concrete roof deck, fully exposed but an incredibly dramatic space for the old glass of wine.”
Neighbours still recall, fondly, the demolition of the old place.
“He had a pretty nice place before, but he knocked that one down. He had a demolition party and everyone came around with sledgehammers and knocked the walls down,” neighbour Candice McKiernan said.
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Shit – sorry. wrong country… Those guys in NZ are not as welcoming as the west Aus crew I guess.
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At least Taj doesn’t promote himself to be a greenie?
And gnarly dudes with side snapped hats, shotguns and long rifles to keep it local?
no surfers will ever make enough money to buy this from now on… not like the big 2010 era guys.
i remember stu kennedy doing an interview after a heat with julian, saying how hungry he was for a win and a check and julian was a millionaire that didnt care..
Odd. Why would he want to be a hobby farmer on a block in the scrub when he’s got a house overlooking the beach. 11 acres – big enough for a few sheep and mini bikes, mebe a skate ramp, but otherwise just a lot of mowing.
great place to build a self sufficient, fortified bunker complex with a 5G shield.
rumour has it taj and his blues musician namesake are getting together on this and setting up a surf school/music academy for oz groms named taj: the stagger lee stud shed
Shall we take all our Iron Ore with us? We’ll keep Gina and Twiggy but only if you guys take Rolf Harris.
No worries bro. Rolf is British now.
I’m still in shock re-Rolf….my first big concert was Rolf Harris at Beatty Park. Thousands of screaming kids. Shudder to think what went on backstage.
What went on backstage; “thousands of screaming kids”.
Fuck I can just imagine that architect he sounds like a pain in the arse.
I hate when builders, tradies etc ask a million questions and don’t just take control of the situation
“Is that what you want?”
I dunno mate, that’s why I’m paying you.
Coz we are all dumb fucks and are reliant on other people to take responsibility for our own shortcomings – this is why we now have project managers. Yet another layer of cost – all care no responsibility.
Where is the best country to be white, peanut ?
Ffs
You’re way outta your zone on this, bexy.
You only hear what you want to hear.
Jacinta is a moderate and what she says is valid. But she is one voice not the only voice.
Aus got a big wake up coming, mate …
You can’t sweep shit under the rug forever.
How do you know you ain’t part original Aussie Bex? Ever had the test?
I like all rounded vibe of the architecture of his Yallingup pad. TB, done well for himself eh. Met him once, short dude.
Don’t be so condescending. I look down my nose at everyone.
But taller than you might imagine. Paradoxical! Even a little Schrodinger’s cat-ish.
You’ve educated me DR. Didn’t make sense to me until I read some on the Copenhagen interpretation. But yes, very much a subjective observation.
Meanwhile Jadson Andre sleeps in a tent made out of his board bags in a Hawaiian back garden.
Kids eh?
They love a bit of camping out.
Maybe LGR will let him sleep under his lanai like he offered me a couple years ago. Free urine showers too I remember!
Yeah that dam is fucking GAGGING for a wavepool.
Isn’t it?
I mean any and every body of freshwater in the world needs to be converted into a wavepool because it’s the eco-friendly thing to do.
He could max-out the plot with solar panels to run the train to push the plow.
Or alternately the energy could WHOMP the shit out of a giant donut.
It would be GLORIOUS GAYNER (I will survive) . Think about the yabbies flying and the leeches fucking everywhere.
He could put the banjo-playing version of the sax-metal gimp band in the tin shed behind the paddock when they aren’t playing whateverthefuck they play in West Oz in place of honest God-fearing sax metal.
Taj mate, I’ll give you a hand figuring it out but you’ll have to get on the good side of my missus and let my kids ride your tractor.
I thought he was on DHDs, not JS’s?
Underrated comment.
No one cares about your land Taj, Just tell us about all the puss you slayed for all those years.
He should build a wave pool with a view of the beach on that new piece of property.
Winning a Design Excellence Award from Building Designers Australia WA is like slapping the cock ring dispenser in the servo dunnies on a whim and a sachet of lube dropping out. Is WA even a real fucken state? Not in my fucken Australia.
Well we’ve wanted to secede for ages, so the feeling’s mutual, Wiggs.
Your premier is pulling gangster moves in his press engagements lately. Calling all us easties diseased and whatnot. Fuck it, break out. I don’t want to have to get a visa to go back over though. Need an NZ—>Aus type deal. Reckon you’ll still get Medicare in WeternLand once you’ve seceded though?
He was born in Newy too.
No wonder he’s at home in Swinging Pig.
We’re an elite bunch to be sure.
We could do a reciprocal agreement, but just for emergencies, like Malta et al. I’ll set up a meeting with UberKommander Roger Cook when Fuehrer McGowan burns the Reichstag.
I can get down with that. Shark eats me, I get stitches for free.
Shark snitches?
Why mate? Where is your Aussie Pride #chippawilson
Stick together cunt.
Weird how the entire middle of your country has no roads and no people. From what I can tell if you live on the Gold Coast and want to drive to WA you gotta go all the way down to wiggs land and then across. No towns to speak of the whole way over either.
There’s roads, but you’ll need a 4WD and a trip to the dentist to get your fillings replaced afterwards. And there were towns, it’s just the serial killers killed their own industry.
We had people that thought they could chip away at the rocky soil and eek out a living. Then the dust bowl happened and they all moved to LA. Los Angeles has no reason to exist, a dry arroyo with no water. They had to pipe it in from hundreds of miles away.
The last part describes many sections of the East Coast of Australia.
My perception of the East Coast was Gum trees and koala bears with a lot of rain and perfect point breaks. I picture green fields with mushrooms and Angourie.
Damn surf mags.
And that’s where ‘fake news’ started kids.
Chinatown!
And to pass the time on the drive, they all built a 1,400 kilometer / 850 mile long golf course. Who in their right mind has played this thing.
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Oi Oi Oi etc
I love my WA brothers and sisters. Just love us back cunt. This is Straya. Not Africa or Europe where every dumb rich cunt gets a new country.
Never said we weren’t dumb. We must be the stupidest state by far, if you don’t count Queensland.
Vote Wexit Party in March’s election. Get away from the fucking inbred least coasters and retain all the GST for ourselves. These east coast cunts with their $60 styled hipster hair cuts will need to get used to a lower standard of living without our generosity.
wasn’t that long ago that Kalgoorlie wanted to secede from Perth. pretty sure that was when they first let women vote in Australia as most of the women were still in Perth while the husbands were in Kalgoorlie digging the first 3ft of the super pit. (this could be complete bullshit, think I heard it from bar fly)
Superseded secession!
I think it was also WA that had a sovereign state formed after a family seceded to avoid government controlled wheat prices. the farmer and his misses became king and queen and it was only ended recently after they couldn’t find cash to pay tax debts. (possibly bar fly fact) Hutt River?
Yes, Prince Leonard…good loking rooster.
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The people who should be seceding are those that live in Headland and Dampier. Make a state that includes the Pilbara and Kimberley.
Without sending all their wealth to the second most isolated capital city in the world theyd be living like the qataris.
What’s Perth got that generates money?
Yeah funny when you view it that way isn’t it.
Taj Burrow for CEO of surf league!
Too busy making real money it seems!
Duck hunting pond in your own backyard, I’d take that over the house.
I’d make a radio-control submersible claw-thing that just grabs’em and yanks’em under real sneaky like.
Stuffs’em into an underwater pipe that shoots them into another dam, alive, and confuses the hell out of them.
Dial up your contraption to 11 by including a body-swapping transmorpher and shoot them out as a fish, or a squirrel, or a WQS pro or something.
Now yer talkin !
My immediate thought was to upgrade size-wise and make portable to use at Lemon selected breaks that were too crowded for his delicate sensibilities. And the official title in the Hurluley catalogue is ‘Transmographier’.
Haha I typed and re-typed something resembling that word but wasn’t getting it right, then Googled to find the correct spelling but my input was too far off the mark so it didn’t suggest what I was looking for. So I gave up and went back to the things I’d been distracting myself from in the first place.
Nothing like being able to mind-squirt your favorite break from the master bath
Taj tugs in tub to Maccas.