{"id":7017,"date":"2018-02-26T09:34:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T09:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/bellarinetimes\/?p=7017"},"modified":"2018-02-26T09:34:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T09:34:23","slug":"home-andrew-flitton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/bellarinetimes\/real-estate\/home-andrew-flitton\/","title":{"rendered":"At home with Andrew Flitton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Torquay Boardriders life member Andrew Flitton has been involved with the club for nearly 40 years and despite moving to Torquay as a 17-year-old, won\u2019t quite call himself a local yet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI would call myself local to the area for sure; my family is two-plus generations living in the Otways before resettling to Geelong and camped and holidayed at Apollo Bay for over 40 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy earliest years were all at Apollo Bay where my brother and sisters used to bring me here (Jan Juc\/Torquay) surfing all the time. I\u2019m not an original local like Joe Sweeney \u2013 they\u2019re going back to the \u201850s \u2013 I\u2019m going back to the \u201870s but in relative terms to Torquay now, I\u2019d say that\u2019s pretty local.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrew built an illustrious career off the back of Torquay\u2019s bustling surf industry having been sponsored for surfing in his youth by Quiksilver and Rip Curl, and went on to represent the Billabong brand as general manager.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy wife Kath and I took our three kids, Harley, Tori and Palmer (now 26, 24 and 18 years respectively) and moved to Queensland in 2002 where we stayed for 10 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were deciding what to do and were in a great spot on the beach at Catarina so flew down to sell our house at Winkipop. I stood out the front on a beautiful day and said to the realtor \u2018sorry mate, I can\u2019t do it\u2019 and we moved back home in 2012.\u201d<\/p>\n

After travelling the world, Andrew said there\u2019s no place quite like home and shared some of his favourite things about Torquay town.<\/p>\n

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Love of music<\/h2>\n

I\u2019ve been playing guitar forever, I really got involved after I injured my back renovating a few years ago and while I was incapacitated I had nothing I could do but lay on the bed and play.<\/p>\n

The last three or four years i\u2019ve worked with Chris Hay from Waves Music and he\u2019s taught me lots of stuff, i\u2019ve got seven guitars at the minute and am probably due for a new guitar!<\/p>\n

My favourite guitar is a Maton SRS808C cutaway with a sunburst top, it\u2019s a beautiful guitar.<\/p>\n

I played mostly with Ben Day, who\u2019s a harmonica player, we just had a bond and similar taste in music style and most people liken harmonica to blues but we probably play more Australian folk, ballad\/soft pop crossover.<\/p>\n

We had a really good thing going with a guy called Luke Batterbury who produced our Sea Away album and we\u2019ve done a few gigs down here including Geelong\u2019s Pulse radio station and at Soul Fuel Caf\u00e9 and Swell.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s some great musicians in Torquay and things like the Nightjar market are just great platforms for local musicians that are coming through.<\/p>\n

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A love of town history<\/h2>\n

It\u2019s the people in the town and experiences that give you feelings about living here, that\u2019s how it kind of works for me.<\/p>\n

We look back at the past in sort of decades and when you go right back to the 50s the original guys Joe Sweeney, Vic Tantau, Owen Yatemen, Rex \u2018China\u2019 Gilbert, Dick Gerrard, Peter Troy and Al Reid, these first guys were the ones who bulldozed the road out to Bells.<\/p>\n

Back then Bells Beach was in a whole other district from where they were and I just like to remember those original pioneers.<\/p>\n

I knew all of them personally, when I first started surfing those guys used to surf Torquay and Bells so I use to see them all the time.<\/p>\n

Owen Yatemen had his big fat brass band that use to play at the Torquay Pub and they were part of our everyday life.<\/p>\n

They were the elders of the town and everybody knew and respected them even though they were ratbags in the day and there\u2019s lots of stories from those days.<\/p>\n

I just don\u2019t want them forgotten, a lot of new people come into town and I think it\u2019s important they understand the history and there\u2019s still lineage of these families in town that are carrying the family name and stories forward.<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t live without<\/h2>\n

I can\u2019t live without being at the beach, I can\u2019t live without the ocean, I can\u2019t live without the freedom of the coastline and I can\u2019t work in an office.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t live in the city and do traffic or driving, I have to be at the beach and have space around me.<\/p>\n

I just generally like surfing all around the Great Ocean Road, it\u2019s such a beautiful place to surf in comparison to Gold Coast beaches where every spot you\u2019re just looking at houses and buildings and down here you\u2019re looking at cliffs and nature.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got lots of different surfboards that are good for different reasons. I surf most of the time and ride both short and long boards, I just love surfing. I\u2019ve got a new 7\u20196\u201d Pyzel Paddilac, which has been a recent favourite, it\u2019s a bigger board but I like riding it.<\/p>\n

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Jan Juc Grass Growers Guild<\/h2>\n

The Jan Juc Grass Growers Guild came together with a group of mates on a boat trip around the Mentawai Islands off Northern Sumatra. We were all boasting one night about who has the best lawn and said \u2018right when we got back home we\u2019re going to have a competition to decide\u2019 and that was the start. I\u2019ve got a friend, Reevso, from Elliston in South Australia, who has a few mates and they do it as well so we sort of have a bit of an interstate thing going on now and it\u2019s been running since 2015. It\u2019s just great fun and we raise money for Spring Creek House here in Torquay so the money goes back into the local community.<\/p>\n

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Torquay Boardriders<\/h2>\n

I\u2019m affiliated with the Torquay Boardriders, it\u2019s been going for 40 years and I\u2019ve been involved nearly the whole time.<\/p>\n

There are still guys in town that were from the very first meeting held at Don Alcroft\u2019s place, like Ross Slaven, the original guys.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a life member of the club and I like to see the kids get involved.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot of new families in town now and they\u2019re introducing their kids to it, young guys and girls, there\u2019s quite a few young girls in the club now that are doing really well.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d just like to see the club to keep going and be successful.<\/p>\n

Oh, the times they are a-changin\u2019<\/h2>\n

Torquay is changing and we\u2019re putting a lot of faith in the council to make good decision for the future, the covenants on buildings and developments are going to be key to the lifestyle of this area over the next 10-20 years.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot of people coming in and the infrastructure needs to be managed and what goes up needs to fit in to the coastal mould.<\/p>\n

On the Gold Coast, there\u2019s only certain styles you can build and colours you can paint and I don\u2019t see enough of that here in Torquay, they\u2019re allowing too many buildings going up that don\u2019t fit the coast. Anglesea has done a good job and Aireys Inlet have maintained those things and Lorne to a degree; the coastal village is the image of Torquay and if we lose that I\u2019m not sure what we\u2019re going to end up with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Torquay Boardriders life member Andrew Flitton has been involved with the club for nearly 40 years and despite moving to Torquay as a 17-year-old, won\u2019t quite call himself a local yet. \u201cI would call myself local to the area for sure; my family is two-plus generations living in the Otways before resettling to Geelong and […]<\/p>\n

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