Neverland is a social history of a surf town in Australia – which happens to be Byron Bay. It is the story of the surfers, American and Australian, who found and made Byron Bay their home in the 1960s and 1970s changing its history forever. These stories, as told to the author, are of a time in Byron Bay that charts the forces that created modern Byron Bay. Culture wars. Freedom, rebellion, they believed they were going to change the world. It tells the story of how a backwater NSW slaughterhouse town became the beating heart of Australian counterculture, a crossroads creative Mecca, a world-class surf destination, and one of the planet’s most desirable addresses and expensive real estate. If it wasn’t for the American and Australian surfers, Byron Bay may still be an industrial town rather than the cultural destination it has become. They changed Byron Bay town from black and white to colour.
