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Gold Coast-based surfer, Luke Luketson (27) has today shared one of his prouder moments on social media.
Not one for pumping his own tyres – or even owning a phone – it seems that Luke’s most recent ‘board meeting’ is one that he can’t resist sharing.
With thousands of his own Instagram followers, Luke is somewhat famous in the south-east Queensland surfing community.
And the fact that he follows 16 accounts on social media suggests that he doesn’t really give a shit.
But over the weekend, Luke caught the perfect wave.
With a local photographer out there with him, and freight train sets pumping in the mid morning sun, Luke was coning hard.
So with the once famous surf magazines now basically just online aggregations of self submissions of social media, this local board rider decided to chuck it out there into the surfer universe.
But first he has to alter the image to prevent his followers from identifying his secret location.
This usually means flipping the image horizontally, but Luke is so protective of his classified surf break that he’s taken it one step further and flipped the image vertically as well.
He briefly toys with inverting the image colours, but decides that might be too far and would actually make it quite difficult to see what’s going on.
Within hours the post has generated a buzz amongst surfers from Bali to Bega, as Luke’s contemporaries rushing to congratulate him.
However, despite the very obvious amount of effort that Luke has gone to in ensuring the secrecy of his location, the comment section begins to fill with casual surfers who don’t quite get it.
“Wheres this???!” asks nearly two hundred grommets.
