GSI Noosa Festival of Surfing
Presented by Goldenbreed

Noosa, Queensland
15 - 22 March 2009

Honolua Surf Co./Café le Monde Spirit of Family Challenge hits Noosa Fest

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 3 March, 2009 : - - One of the world’s leading surfwear brands has teamed up with one of Noosa’s iconic café restaurants to put the family feeling back into the Global Surf Industries Noosa Festival of Surfing, presented by Golden Breed.

The Honolua Surf Co./Café le Monde Spirit of Family Challenge will put the focus on multi-generation surfing as more mums and dads keep on surfing as their offspring turn into champions. The Challenge will pit six invited teams of well-known surfing families against each other and against the first six families to take up the challenge on the festival website.

Said festival director Phil Jarratt: “Honolua’s Guy Walker came to us with this idea of promoting families surfing together and we loved it. As it happened, so did Café le Monde which promotes family dining at the beach, so they teamed up to sponsor this new event for Noosa. We hope it becomes a regular addition to the festival.”

Invited teams include former ASP world tour star Luke Egan and his shaper dad, Sam, soul surfing superstar Belinda Baggs and her dad Phil, the patriarch of Coolum’s Wilson surfing dynasty Mick and son Bart, and former US champion Rusty Miller with daughter Taylor. The first six parent/child Noosa competitors to apply at noosafestivalofsurfing.com will join in the fun of the Honolua/Le Monde Spirit of Family event at Noosa on Sunday, March 15.
 
The Walker family teamed up with 07 champs Mick Fanning and Steph Gilmore at last year's festival, and loved it! Family fun is what Noosa is all about.
Photo courtesy Global Surf Industries.

Presentations for this and other Waterman’s Sunday events will take place at a festival opening night family luau at Café Le Monde immediately following the festival opening ceremony at sunset, live music from Rusty Miller’s hot old guy surf band, The Yanx. Yowza!

HONOLUA/LE MONDE SPIRIT OF FAMILY INVITEES
Mick & Bart Wilson Qld
Dave and Dane Wilson NSW
Rusty & Taylor Miller NSW
Phil & Belinda Baggs NSW/Qld
Libby and Jackson Winter Qld
Luke & Sam Egan Qld/NSW

Previous reports:
# 1 : GSI Noosa Festival of Surfing streamlines for March '09
# 2 : GSI Noosa Fest hosts the Firstlight 5k SUP paddle race
# 3 : Coming soon
# 4 : Coming soon  

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