Gold Coast Surf World Surf Museum at Currumbin(opposite the famous Currumbin Wildlife Bird Sanctuary) will be presenting a special surfing exhibition as part of the Kirra SurfStock Festival dedicated to one of Australia’s greatest surfing legends Robert Brown of Cronulla and that significant era of sixties surfing.

Well known Gold Coast beach and surf reporter, Andrew “AndyMac” McKinnon who together with his wife Megan kicked off the inaugural Kirra Surfstock Festival last year and handed over to Sean McKeown are stoked to be part of the Festival again by hosting a surfing exhibition dedicated to one of Australia’s great surfing enigma’s Bobby Brown.

Affectionately known as Brown Bobby, his surfing prowess ranked with the best surfers in the 1960’s such as Midget Farrelly, Nat Young and Peter Drouyn. He was only 17 years of age when he qualified for the first open mens World titles in 1964 won by Midget Farrelly at Manly Beach in front of a record crowd of 50,000. That first ever World title event launched surfing as a sport and the promising career of Bobby Brown who became a perennial open mens finalist in 1966 Nationals at Coolangatta, Gold Coast and 1967 Nationals at Bells Beach, Victoria.