I stopped surfing here in 2000 when I broke my arm on Boxing Day at 5.30 am. I was slotted in a really decent size wave, on an 9' 6" mal when some clown thought it would be a good idea to drop in on me. He was not a local and he just looked at me as he dropped in. I was literally flung, over the falls onto my rail onto on the sandbank. I heard the snap as my upper arm broke and when I came to the surface, the bone was sticking out. Luckily someone was sitting on the rocks watching the surf and when I literally passed out from the pain, he jumped in, fully clothed and prevented me being washed onto the rocks and took me to hospital. I was taken to Byron Bay Hospital where I spent two weeks until I could get back to Sydney to have a 22cm pin put in my arm. I had been surfing here since the 60's and never had any problems but this one morning some clown decided that I didn't matter. I will never forget his face as one day I really hope I run into him........maybe literally in the surf!!!

The local ding repair guy probably rolls in a Maserati

Ah Byron Bay, home to more kooks-per-capita than any town in Australia. (Both in and out of the water)

Ahh Byron. The absolute best example of Australia's demise. You couldn't pay me to live there.

why would you even bother

OMG … I grew up surfing 60’s … THANK GOD!

0:40 The classic finless hipster hero 🙄

Over crowded 24/7, mostly B grade surf and kookmier standard of surfing for 95% of them. The Pass is long past.

Oh yeah , this is really getting back to what surfing is all about .

Just love that far north coast, laid back, casual country vibes...

Donkey farm

Byron hospital always knows when the pass is busy.

Sad.

1976 I was 16 . Half a dozen guys out was like a crowd .

Love watching this show of surf and surfers 👍👍👍

Lived in the 70s l use to sleep on the picnic table would get endless morning of the earths.l had my share leave it to you

That's terrible. What a laugh 😃

That’s pretty much any decent wave all over Australia right now

Easter with a full moon and a cool tide always brought magnificent swells. My mates would all head off on Thursdays to get waves at Bells , York Peninsula and west coat , Ceduna . Most years I would clean up . Gulf St Vincent. Glassy sets . Few guys . Perfect 2 or 3 days of great waves. 👍🏻👍🏻

Been like this for the past 20 years, only difference now is it’s 24/7 🤪

Exactly why I’ll NEVER go back to Byron. A true pity, but I’m sure the locals (if there are any left) would order it that way. As soon as the council put in parking meters, I knew it was over.

And yes ve been one time to this place , will never go back ; even Uluwatu is less crowded 😂

Looks fun!

I don’t understand why anyone would see a crowd like that and decide to paddle out. Is there really absolutely nowhere else to go? If that was the only place to surf around me, I’d either move, or find something else to do.

Half of Sydney in Byron now. Lineups are empty in Sydney this holiday weekend 😂

looks fun😵‍💫

looks like a really nice place :)

WEEEEEEE! Kooks corner!

Hipster Heaven

Byron Bay we love you so much

Good swell, nice bank, just like the good old days.

Chick doing a backhand shit😂

'is that an old boy........' 😂

Got to give him points for hanging in there while they were all dropping in around him.tjen he stood up and claimed the rest of the wave. Good on you bra

At least know one is trying to go left

Total carnage is true. I stopped surfing after nashos back in the 60-70's. Family commitments after my parents passed away and work didn't really help. I have often wondered about "going back". I couldn't - not with the scenes like this. So aggressive and dangerous. Especially with the idiot in the red/ornge shorts surfing. Gone are the days we had. I am so sad seeing such a great past time destroyed by the agressive riding and crowds of today. I wonder if the old surfers feel the same as I do.

Wow, I refuse to go out when its this crowded.

Earning every inch of those rides.;😂

Byron sausage festival 😂

Wow these drop-ins were insane! Byron is so popular...

But props to the couple grommets rippin!!

There’s not a fun beach break nearby where you could triple your wave count and avoid all that chaos? 😅

you should have added the Benny Hill theme song 😂

yukkkk

2:07 - OMG, look at the rail to rail speed of that surfer! Who is that.. get em on the tour! 🔥

What happened to learning on the edge or reforms

A very similar picture from raglan today. Avoid all point breaks on long weekends. Hit the beaches.

I’d go out not catch any waves and just have a chat with the boys if I paddled out hahaha

Good footage bro anyway

Sheila, she gets the best....respect💓

The lineup nightmares are made of

Trigg Perth is the very same, It's like surfing a minefield!

So many Kooks in one place! Just asking for injury surfing there.

😂 warm water chaos I'll take cold water and empty anytime 👍

That crowd is comical 😅

This is what it’s like driving through garden grove, CA

I love the pass and I have been surfing there for a while now but it’s just way to crowded and the kooks is just ridiculous I had to get my head glued because of some kook ditching there longboard and the fin went to my head

🤙🤙🌊

The ocean needs more sharks

Are you sure that's the pass? Everyone is wearing a leash...

This is why i took up kite surfing instead. My wave when i want it. 🤣

Doesn't help when half the crowd should even be out there with the skills they have.

Edit: For Those Who Try To Surf

Cheer up, slow down, chill out.😂😂😂 well this is what wanky marketing, freeways, festivals and airports do in the name of progress!

I prefer a hectic sweep to regulate the lineup, people are gassed after an hour and most can’t make it to the peak. This looked all a bit easy to sit behind the rock.

What time of day was this? this looks more glass than it has been recently.

It's like a giant hot tub🫣

What an amazing break! It looks super fun 👏🏽

is there absolutely no where else to surf in the area?

Why I don't surf anymore

You'd never drown.

Two years ago.....

Wooooo Round 2 coming soon

Grew up surfing byron.what sad situation it is now .

is it even a drop in if someone was lying and sitting down barely holding on in the whitewater and then they pop up when they finally get clear around the flats 30 seconds later after youve already been up and surfing?

A few mates out for a slide.

Had this place and MANY more up there with 4-5 out max.. 90’s, not many people were there..

Looks dangerous 😂

Still KOOKs out there with no leash!

Fleas....😮

Why 2-3 people in one Wave?

Jeeze, that sucks

Invite more people!

Dude @1:10 didn't give a f*** He was shredding old skool

There can only be one Krooky🧙🏻‍♂️ Everyone else, go home and put your fins back in.

Been there done that. Ugh....

Nothing like a mal to the head

Surprised someone hasn’t yelled out SHARK 🦈😂😂

Been surfing there for 10 years but nowadays it’s just bonnets even of small days. I was in the surf in this video

Zoo

Super fun wave! Bit of carenage but the lineup seems to have it sorted. Good to see the groms and Wahine giving it a good nudge. YEOW from the NAKI NZ

Wow! She is a goddess ❤

Stressed out surfing

Guy at 0.40 on a table top ? 😂😂

Why?

I think to myself all those 9am sessions,s to myself late 70s 80...

No fins, no legrope and no brains. 🤣

Excellent tactics from the squatstance chick at 1:52. Drop in on anyone. Can't punch me because I'm a chick. Get so far out on the shoulder nobody else can drop in on me. Winning at surfing

Poor bastards with those crowds lol

Iooks like hell, I think if the surf had of been larger it might have spread people out a bit more with people getting caught inside and or getting washed down the point more, or maybe it would just have encouraged even more people to paddle out.