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| | Surfline | Bells Beach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) |
 | | Bells is a broad sediment-rock reef break exposed to a range of swells from major southern ocean storms, which sweep beneath the Australian continent every few days, often moving on to bombard the south-facing coasts of Fiji, Tahiti and (in the right season) Hawaii and California. |
 | | The history of Bells as a surfing beach extends back into the early post-war years, when in 1949, a group of Torquay-based surfers and bodysurfers began riding their motorbikes out to Bells along the cliff tops, riding waves in the shorebreak and catching crayfish in the rock pools. |
 | | Easter at Bells has seen everything from wins by Mark Richards, Michael Peterson, Nat Young, Tom Curren, Tom Carroll, Kelly Slater and Sunny Garcia to the debut of Simon Anderson's Thruster surfboard design to party scenes of unrivaled madness and splendor. |
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