'Eppo' - Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia
S 31° 25.610 E 152° 55.044
56J E 492149 N 6523090
The PMBA has honoured John 'Eppo' Eppelstun, with a black marble body board marker on the southern 'Training Wall' at Town Beach.
Waymark Code: WMW4JC
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 07/09/2017
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This is a good replica, though obviously non-surfable, memorial plaque on the rock wall at the outlet of the Hastings River, at Town Beach. It reads:
PORT MACQUARIE
the official
BODYBOARDING
CAPITAL of AUSTRALIA
NOVEMBER 2010
In honour of
John 'Eppo' Eppelstun
a local legend of the sport &
all bodyboarders past
present & future
[Port Macquarie Bodyboarders Assoc. logo]
proudly sponsored by
[Logos]
Turbo Surf Designs McDonald's Port Macquarie Rebel Sport Port Macquarie
Panthers Port Macquarie Sundowner Breakwall Tourist Park Blue Water Legal
Port Macquarie Tourism Port City Bowling Club Port Macquarie Hastings Council
The local newspaper of Port Macquarie, "PortNews" has an article from two years after the placing of this memorial, "Micheal Eppelstun back in Port", from
PortNews, 17 Apr 2012.
Visited: Sunday, 7 February, 2016