If Robbie Page’s extraordinary life ever becomes a Netflix series (and here’s hoping one day it will), I for one would binge the shit out of it. The new season has just dropped and some might think the script writers have jumped the shark –  TV industry slang for becoming ridiculously improbable (based on an episode of 60s nostalgia TV comedy Happy Days, wherein local tough guy/heartthrob Fonzie jumped over a shark on his motorbike).

During our most recent chat, Robbie was admiring his newly born son, named Djalu, an Indigenous word meaning ‘lightning’, (in the Yolgnu language of Arnhem Land), after his partner Christie gave birth on Robbie’s 58th birthday.

“You’re like Mick Jagger now. You’re a legend,” Christie told Robbie, after Djalu’s arrival. Christie is a fifth-generation fisherman’s daughter from Barwon Heads and the former personal chef of Byron-based Hollywood hunk Chris Hemsworth.

“When Djalu’s 22 I’ll be 80,” Robbie marvels.

Robbie has just signed a new contract with his former French clothing sponsor Oxbow, who based their campaigns around Robbie’s radical surfing and outrageous on-land persona back in the 90s. “Robbie is my wizard. He will be with Oxbow for life,” Oxbow founder Fabrice Valeri once famously declared. Together they pioneered the Masters Surfing Titles, staged at Puerto Escondido and Tavarua in the late 90s.

Changes of ownership scuttled Fabrice’s bold promise but 30 years after Robbie’s pro- surfing heyday, Oxbow have made a movie about their most colourful team rider. Walkabout – the songlines of surfing, celebrates Robbie’s Indigenous ancestry and unwavering, freewheeling commitment to fully indulging his passion for surfing, refusing to yield to the passing of time. In Walkabout, Robbie’s re-united with his old French surfing buddy Arnaud Mestelan and they roam the coast from Crescent Head to ...