The Beach Battalion is back.

  Friends, its been a long absence, but I've not been idle. Things here on the Atoll have a way of frustrating a man and nothing ever seems to happen in an instant. Not so long ago when I was down visiting the production facility I came across Maloko, who heads up the local native labour force. He was excited and animated, jumping up and down and brimming with pride for the Papa because of the success of  the initial order of Beach Battalion hats. It would appear however that Maloko took matters into his own hands and decided to do another run of hats, "For you Papa", he said, ''No waiting, Maloko have hats now!" Arrgghh I thought what do you do? Luckily with the sale of the first order I still had many potential customers who missed out on these frog skin beauties and who had been on my case waiting for another chance to buy, and so I had to pat 'ol Maloko on the back and thank him and take possession of another order which now I can offer up for sale.
  So hear this, the Papa officially announces the sale of 34 new Beach Battalion Hats, sizes 57 through to 61. These are expected to move quickly as many are back orders already so don't avast a moment,  tell it to the Papa and send $50 Australian which includes airmail worldwide, to the Papa's PayPal address, rocket_ace47@hotmail.com and include your size requirement.
Semper the Papa!

Beach styling early 1950's??

The Papa was set up at the beach today enjoying the gorgeous autumn coastal weather, cold overnight lows and mornings burning off to sensational 25+ days (70+). Making camp on the sand for the day is always a great way to spend Sundays. We get to lounge around and take in all the action as well as have a paddle out everytime the tide is just right. We surf, eat, read, sleep and talk; my favourite day of the week.
A good friend of mine was fishing around on the net the other day and found this little slice of beaching style back in the early 50's and so the Papa thought for your viewing pleasure you'd enjoy seeing how it was done all those years ago.