An open mind, an asym’ quiver courtesy of Chris Garrett, a few friends to slide with and a couple of freshly caught fish to fuel the roaming adventure. Maybe that’s all you need?
Tahlija Redgard and her friends show us there’s another way to live and surf. Tahlija also boasts a fierce frontside carve, while making a good case for being one of the most committed barrel riders in women’s surfing. Step out of the rat race for half an hour and accept Tahlija Redgard’s ‘Gifts From the Blue’. Amongst the various waves ridden, there are some alternative views expressed. Watch on and you might come out the other side with a different perspective on what’s possible in and out of the water.
More words from Tahlija below.
Gifts From The Blue ~ Blessings from our mother
The birds are playing in the trees, celebrating the grace and joy of a new day, the happiness of a fresh beginning. The morning has begun for them also. Needing to eat and feast, they will most likely just find enough to get by for the day. Some will be days of feasting, others more barren, the balance of this ecosystem we’re all living in, so fragile but also so abundant. I’m thinking how lucky we all are to call the place our home.
I’ve always been big on swapping food. As a little girl of six years old, Dad would get me to run fish on my bike around the neighbourhood. But the one that stuck with me was our beautiful neighbour. She was in her late seventies and would always swap me a cuppa and as many biscuits as I could eat. We would sit and dunk our biccies and talk about our day. Today I swap fish with my close friends and people who are truly grateful. We swap fish for fruit, veggies, honey and nuts or even for someone’s time and help.
It makes my heart sing. To give is the most rewarding feeling of all, especially when nature is gifting it to us for free.
This is a short film about love, gratitude and the abundance we are surrounded by every day in our beautiful home country. This film captures the love for my own beautiful mumma gifting me this life. The title “Gifts from the blue – Blessings from our mother” reflects the deep love for my birth mother and the deepest love I share with our mother ocean and how truly precious this time we all have to call our own.
My dearest friend Anna who is one of my biggest inspirations in and out of the ocean, a true water woman, sailor, adventure woman, activist and most of all one of the most beautiful women and mothers I’ve ever been blessed to know. Years of love, laughter and life in and out of the ocean; sharing knowledge together of life and learnings.
Anna has passed down all her knowledge onto her beautiful little tribe; Zephyr and Chilli the true essence of what it means to be free; both running deep with so much awareness and knowledge of their own. Treading softly on our beautiful home planet.
We go down the road with friend and shaper Chris Garrett sharing a glimpse into our journey on a board I pulled out of the roof of his shed that he shaped and crafted 15 or so years ago. It seems the board still had a few more years left in her and found a new home in my truck and on the road sharing a new take on life after being covered by dust for all those years. A short film, a glimpse into my story and the ones I call home.
