Make or Break.
There was no professional surfing for you yesterday or the day before, for that matter. Today? Only Senior Vice President of Tours, Head of Competition Jessi Miley-Dyer knows for certain, and maybe her stoolies at propagandist organ Surfline, but no worries. Bushes are being planted at, or near, event site Margaret River by top seeds.
Current world number two Kanoa Igarashi was there holding a trowel. World number four Lakey Peterson, too, with small palm in presumably compostable container. Conner Coffin, just below the cut line at 23 and dreaming of the 805, had two small succulents. Very Santa Barbara.
Visitors know and love the Margaret River region – tucked in the rugged south-west corner of Australia – for its incredible coastline, amazing surfing breaks, spectacular granite and limestone cliffs, unique wildflowers and orchids, towering forests, and marine life.
However, increasing use of the coast by the growing number of residents and tourists, together with other threats associated with climate change, are placing significant pressures on the fragile coastal region. That’s why the World Surf League has decided to help put the spotlight on caring for the coastline of this much-loved location on surfing’s elite tour.
Before the Margaret River Pro started, a group of athletes from both the men’s and women’s tour took part in a hands-on coastal conservation activation event. The world’s best surfers were joined by youngsters from the local Cowaramup Bay Boardriders Club, who lent a hand with the dune brushing and planting. They replanted native coastal species and undertook some vital dune brushing, which involves laying down branches across sections of dune to prevent people walking in the area and to protect vegetation whilst it establishes.
Gorgeous but if metaphor, which professional surfers are the branches laid down to prevent people from waking and which are the…
…heck. I don’t even know anymore. A trowel? This performative business ranks far above my new role in life as balletomane.
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They just aren’t very good at this shit are they.
Do they really think the public are so stupid as to put this down as a plus for the environment but not think of all the associated air travel and petroleum based surfboards that go along with the tour?
If they had balls they would go fully carbon neutral, but how to do that when each pro rides what, 100 boards a year?
Who’s the girl wearing glasses?
cunts won’t answer and the principles are gay.
Local landcare representative or doing community service?
seems like penance for crimes.
Into the blue again, after the wozzles gone.
Got a great new show idea from this article-“Chas Smith: Deputy Sheriff, Greenwash Police”.
Dune brushing has been a staple of mother nature’s natural rhythms for so long now. Almost as long as desert combing. I’m glad some of the most unskilled-on-land humans but massively-internationally-privileged skilled waveriders lended their respective hands to this gang-wank.
Of course Conner is there.
Just for a starter a judging stand set up in the highley sensative dunes in front of the box , 6 jet skis ‘ a helicopter , a huge boat and event sight lighting running 24/7 yea yea WSL what ever.
I wonder if they actually believe it themselves or if they just think everyone in the world is so stupid not too see what a full on wank it all is?
Fantastic foresight from the woz in preparing surfers for life after the tour. A volunteer role at their local landcare, working for the dole. Living the dream.
Agreed. Cut down all the trees because “they’re messy” and then name all the streets after them.
Make sure to max out your house lot with the largest, most soulless house possible. Avoid planting anything but grass. Buy the largest truck possible and park it across the footpath.
Anyone? Who is the lass with the glasses to the left of Lakey in the photo…. next to the tall guy?
Some sweet goddess I would love to disappoint.
Looks like Connor is holding sea-fig, a non-native succulent from South Africa (Jordy!) that is invasive in and near beaches in a lot of Mediterranean climates. Seems about right.
Australia also has a couple of natives: Carpobrotus glaucescens AKA Pigface is the most commonly known one in the eastern half of Aus. Over in WA it’ll most likely be C. virescens.
Thanks! Well, now I know the future IS bright in the WSL’s hands!!
You misspelled ‘shite’.
It takes someone special to make a succulent look intelligent and yet here we are.
“Connor, please put it down now. We’re done filming.”
“I can’t. She tells me to hold her near my face, so she can talk to me. She wants to tell me how to beat Filipe.”
*Puts sea-fig closer to face*
“What’s that? It’s time?? To unleash…..the Turn????”
So much planting, the best planting, the biggest planting.
@paulymattwarshaw can you do one replacing Connor’s head with the plants, so he is a plant holding up two of his heads
Low-res image, but I did my best.
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Re-connor the bush
lol
Guy on the left….ya ain’t gonna be planting many trees with your hands on your hips.
Looks like Kolohe Durbidge…
Bushes are being planted at, or near, event site Margaret River by top seeds.
Sick gardening joke.
Yeah Japanese Maples, Connifers, and they use water from the Lakey just a few Miley’s away…
Try as they might, they just can’t avoid the seeding round.
No pic from the WSL of the log Griffin planted in the lineup?
Kelly Slater Chia Pet?
Planting land mines would work better!
The Wall hard at work …
Conner practicing for next career step?
Meanwhile there is a massive 5 star resort and high end residential development planned for the very same headland ,Marriot by the sound of it , think Hanalei bay style ,all the bushes and succulents ,not to mention cute little endangered ringtail possums and carnaby cockatoos will all be rendered homeless ( or dead more likely ) and I’ll bet my bottom dollar all these pro surfers will be staying there in the future .
Preserve Gnarabup .con
lefties down here only care about this shit if it ruins their view of the surf from their range rovers.
does anyone care about the thousands of hectares of old growth jarrah being destroyed by the alcoa mine north of here? no. because it’s not in a gentrified area full of people rolling around in brand new cars, living off inflated asset prices while people can’t afford to rent in town. performative wankers.
Wow ,great attitude ,let’s support perthy developers trash the coast so we can get even with the rich on the hill?
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Kind of like this on what is still pristine coastal heath
Sneaky cunts aye. To save the environment, they ban regenerative native logging in SW WA and ramp up pine plantations – the caveat being when clearing for mines is needed. WSL / WA gov partnership is made in heaven
You should probably chillax and go dune brushing and shrub planting. If not, a nice cool green wash will serve you well
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experts in window dressing