So the trip was on, I think it was around April 1963,  Crescent was the focus for three days, 4 of us frothing to get away again. About 3 days before we  were doing the normal 4.00pm Friday arvo escape Surfing World came out and on the cover was the headline of the recent discovery of a pretty unknown surf spot that SW had named UGH’s Reef as the story was about a bunch of guys from Maroubra one of them Ugh Andres (I think that’s the right spelling) and this recent but very vague description of getting into the headland some where up round Taree.

AS we did have a bit of time we decided to head out along the road out to Old Bar and referring to the SW we’d brought with us about turning right off the road along a two wheel rutted track …. somewhere along the road closeish to Old Bar beach. Anyway we tried a few to have dead ends and very near serious boggings BUT one we did take went further, it was very narrow with bushes scarping along our mates fairly new Holden wagon so he wasn’t impressed but with no where to turn around it was just straight ahead.

After maybe 30 minutes we hit open space as saw in the head lights a grassy beach front, sandy sort of boat ramp, a few old fisho’s fibro huts and a beautiful looking rocky and boulder head land. Sleep was difficult but in the first light saw UGH’s Reef, known also as Saltwater, with nice point waves around head high and no one. So Crescent was off and we stayed for three days not  seeing any other surfers, the odd fisho, who seemed to think we were a bit odd. It was all good and a wonderful introduction to a spot that became one of our fav’s right thru to the early 80’s. So many great memories and some of the crew that we’d bump into from other areas that we knew …………….small world and that firsts trip was very exciting to be able to surf a spot that had been fro such a long time only known to a few locals and there were very few of them, Jimmy & Gary Wright, Taree born n bred, and a few of his mates …. the locals.