McAlister, Charles "Snow"

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Robust and sociable Australian surfing pioneer from Manly Beach, New South Wales; a three-time Australian surfing champion in the 1920s; sometimes referred to as the "father of Australian surfing." McAlister was born (1904) and raised in the NWS outback town of Broken Hill, the son of a mailman, and took to the surf immediately when his family moved to Manly Beach in 1914—just in time to see Haw...

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