Surfboard Souls

Surfboard Souls Manly are a family of 5 living on the Northern Beaches who love the ocean and surfing. During the 3rd Covid lockdown in 2021, our eldest daughter Olivia, 13 years old who lives to surf, had a horrific accident with a hand held blender and cut the top of her finger off requiring major surgery and a lot of physio. Olivia couldn’t surf for months.

As a mother highly concerned about her mental health looking at the next few months, we wanted to find a way to keep Olivia connected to her love of surfing and doing something good as she thrives on helping others.

We suggested to Olivia that she uses the time to learn to repair boards. Olivia taught herself how to repair & shape fibreglass surfboards with YouTube and one of our many broken surfboards.

Olivia investigated how toxic surfboards are and was horrified to learn Surfboards never break down in landfill and leach toxic chemicals for eternity, forever harming our ocean & planet!

We also discovered that a surfers’ carbon footprint is double of a non-surfer! This is due to surf equipment & disposal and of course travelling more searching for the perfect wave.

Surfboards are super toxic and so bad! We must do something to help!