In the beginning was the word and the word was the beginning… but when was the beginning?

Certainly for surfing at Alex it was long before us, even before ‘Slug’ Kelk and gangly young McLardy dragged their dunggas down to The Korner to be parked in the dunes for the weekend, before the Wilkes generation, before O’Connor’s cutting up of the Headland, before Granddad down from Kin Kin hired out the big redwood on Maroochy Beach around the end of WW1, even before our South Sea Islander mates Great-Grandparents came down to surf Alex from Buderim, even before The Dreaming, when the turtles ruled...