'Eppo' - Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Grahame Cookie
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
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member T0SHEA
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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
Website with more information on either the memorial or the person(s) it is dedicated to: [Web Link]

Location: Town Beach end of southern Rock Wall

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