Surfilm style

Surfers of all skill levels will gather at Yallingup beach tomorrow in their best dress-up costumes, all in the name of charity.

The Fancy Dress Surfing Competition, part of the Yallingup Surfilm Festival, will aim to raise money for the Disabled Surfers Association.

The Indian Ocean Boardriders have organised for all funds raised from the $5 entrance fee to go to the DSA.

Committee member Lou Corkill, who will dress up as a pirate, said it was all about having fun and giving back to the community.

“There is nothing about being the best surfer, it’s not competitive, it’s just fun,” he said.

Festival director Jesca Maas told the Times the surfing competition was just another way to “create extra colour and vibrancy” at the festival.

“It’s a celebration of surf culture and it will add more excitement for the people who are participating and the people who are watching,” she said.

Ticket sales to this weekend’s festival have been strong to date, with people coming from as far as Cairns and New South Wales.

There has been a couple of last minute entries to the artwork on exhibit at Clancy’s Fish Pub, including a spectrum of boards from renowned surfboard shaper Len Dibben.

The boards displayed have been selected from across his career from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Scottish artist Jamie Harris will also present a unique perspective of the ocean in his paintings, which capture the surface, shapes and colours of the ocean from a surfer’s point of view.

“We are really stoked that Jamie could exhibit as he hasn’t exhibited in Australia yet,” Mrs Maas said.

For information, visit www.yallingupsurfilm.com.au.