Today my dad got inducted into The Australian Walk of Fame at Tweed Heads, NSW.  He along with Mick Fanning, Stephanie Gilmore and Phyllis O’Donnell got stars on the walk of fame (on the sidewalk opposite the Twin Towns Services Club) bringing together three generations of world surfing champions.  Phyllis O’Donnell won the first ever world championship in women’s surfing in 1964, at the age of twenty-seven.  My father, Peter Townend, won the 1976 world championship.