On the fringes of skateboarding in Far North Queensland – the 2025 Weekend at Timmy’s Jam in Airlie Beach.

FNQ is a bit of a trek to skate a weathered old ramp, but it’s winter in Australia right now, so if an old school vert jam is happening in the tropics, you go. Just don’t swim in the waterholes, or you’ll get taken by a croc.

It wasn’t a hard sell to get a small crew on board, a couple of ramps amidst a few days of warmth, surrounded by palm trees, pristine mountainous landscapes, and adjacent to the iconic Great Barrier Reef in one of Australia’s most isolated tourist hotspots, Airlie Beach.

Words and Photos by Wade McLaughlin.

Stop one and skateboarding finds a way to exist in the most unlikely places. How sick is this ramp in a cane field? Thanks for having us, Richie. Matt Beer is from the UK and he’s our favourite new resident. Crail air in a 12 trick run. 

Farmers, skateboarders and hippie campers unite.

Ethan Copeland fell in love and dropped a knee, stalefish.

Josh Matwijiw hard-boiled an egg.

My new mate Chrisso cooked a bratwurst and had a couple of knock-offs. Good bloke, hard worker.

Marley Rae ain’t no slob.

Local Freddie Hazelton wrapping up day one.

The next morning, back in Airlie, it turns out our bnb was bangin’. Someone’s pet cockatoo must have cut loose because it was absolutely kickin’ it.

We planned to drive to some pipes just an hour out of town, according to Freddie. It turned out to be more than double that, and we didn’t have enough time. Local park ripped, though. Matt melon to fakie.

Would hardly call this a make, but Marley cracked his only board and called it.

We didn’t snorkel on the reef, but this will do.

Imagine waking up to this every day.

Over to the main event – Weekend at Timmy’s – seccy check.

Timmy’s property is made up of a bus that the family live in, a shed, a couple of goats, and a vert ramp. Ideal setting for this to take place.

Matt Beer warms things up with a frontside invert.

Swellbows rips a hurricane.

Ethan, “It’s sketchier to skate this ramp with pads.”

Nik Kris and Lachie Abbott.

Josho, nosegrab fingerflip indy?

Harvey Campbell, flat five.

Eddie Acres backside ollie.

It’s not conventional, but it will do. Outback style bump to bar.

First rip and Corey Creed took a slam that sent him straight to the ER after not setting up his bike properly on the beers the night before. These guys are gnar.

It was like the Bogan Boom Boom Huck Jam by the beach. Danno Woolley gets some doubles action. Bull riding next year?

From where you’d rather be.

Ethan, pole jam to bluntslide.

Bikes, blokes, booze bubblers and bands.

Matt scraped by without a tetanus shot.

The land ships and a revved-up crowd. Time to pull out the extension.

Josh, frontside invert.

Nik Kris was in Airlie on holiday with the fam and pulled up to take a wad of cash. Backside nosepick on vacay.

High air time – Eddie Acres.

Josho.

Lachie Abbott is a padless maniac.

This is Freddie’s ramp and he rules it.

Lachie knocked himself out, and that’s gonna be time.

I met Redman years ago in Byron Bay, and he was filming surfers from the rocks on a VX with a fisheye on. What a legend.

The Terminator! 

While Airlie Beach has a heavily fluctuating population of backpackers and tourists, you can still get a taste of the real rural Australian lifestyle with a ton of rad locals and heaps of shit to do. Ten out of ten would recommend this for a skate event with a twist. Thank you, Timmy Hazelton, for putting this on!

That’s going to be a wrap, until next year..