Kay Jarman, Newport c1974, photo courtesy Kay Jarman
Newport Beach youngster Kay Jarman can barely contain her excitement, let alone get her arms around her newly painted, second hand, Shane Standard workhorse, just bought from friend Nick Carroll around 1974. With the beach across the road and the encouragement of fellow locals Derek Hynd, Mick Newling and the Carroll boys, it was inevitable this sports-mad tearaway would excel on a board. Thinking back on those teenage years, Kay can’t imagine her world – then and now – without the leveling, healing effects of surfing and still reckons its the best medicine for worldly and inner woes.