He may be the next big thing in Australian surfing, but George Pittar first learned his craft on waves a long way from the Manly beaches that he now calls home. Pittar was barely a toddler when his family moved to the Pacific nation of Vanuatu, with his father establishing a resort near the capital, Port Vila. For young Pittar, it was an idyllic place to take his first steps as a surfer.
“Surfing reef breaks with no one out – it was pretty special, thinking about it now,” he says. “This perfect right-hander, and this little left, just outside the front of the resort. No one really surfed there, you’d almost get bored surfing alone.”
