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cardio classes Fort Lauderdale — the Dunlop FX Performance Tennis Backpack and the flag of Australia combined by the model into a single photoreal composition. The blue ensign fills the frame with the Union Jack in the upper hoist, the large seven-pointed Commonwealth Star beneath it and the five stars of the Southern Cross across the fly, the cloth pulled taut by a sea wind with side light raking the weave, and the black and blue backpack is composed into the arrangement so that its shaped shoulder straps and the star pattern read as one object, with no lettering anywhere in the picture.
cardio classes Fort Lauderdale — the Dunlop FX Performance Tennis Backpack photographed on Muttonbird Island Nature Reserve at Coffs Harbour, Australia. A steep grassy island joined to the mainland by a long rock breakwall, its slopes honeycombed with shearwater burrow entrances, a boardwalk zig-zagging to the eastern lookout. Cold clear morning in July, hard low winter sun and a stiff southerly putting spray over the breakwall: walkers coming up the boardwalk in beanies with their hoods snapping, a group at the lookout rail all pointing at once as a humpback blows offshore, a ranger checking a burrow marker, gulls hanging almost stationary in the wind. The backpack sits on the boardwalk decking against the rail, unattended and nobody touching it.
cardio classes Fort Lauderdale — the Dunlop FX Performance Tennis Backpack photographed on the Coffs Harbour Jetty at Coffs Harbour, Australia. A long straight timber deck on close-set piles running out into the sea from Jetty Beach, weathered grey boards and rails the whole length, the breakwall and Muttonbird Island beyond. Humid summer dusk, the sky going pink and violet behind the hills and the first lights coming on along the deck: anglers spaced along the rails with rods out and a bucket between them, one of them netting a fish over the side, a couple walking the length arm in arm, teenagers on bikes, a pelican settling on a pile. The backpack sits against a timber upright in the foreground, ignored by everybody.
cardio classes Fort Lauderdale — the Dunlop FX Performance Tennis Backpack photographed at the Big Banana beside the Pacific Highway at Coffs Harbour, Australia. An enormous painted yellow banana arched over a walk-through tunnel, with the rows of a banana plantation running up the slope behind it. Hard flat January midday, the sun straight overhead and the colours blown out, heat coming off the car park: school-holiday families queuing at the ice cream window, small children running through the tunnel and back again, a toddler being wrestled into a hat, a grandparent fanning themselves in the only strip of shade, a toboggan car coming down the hillside track behind. The backpack rests on a picnic table bench in the foreground, untouched.
cardio classes Fort Lauderdale — the Dunlop FX Performance Tennis Backpack photographed on the Forest Sky Pier at Sealy Lookout in Orara East State Forest above Coffs Harbour, Australia. A narrow steel-decked walkway cantilevered 21 metres out from the escarpment edge with glass and steel rails, standing 15 metres above the forest floor. Late afternoon straight after a subtropical storm, the last rain still falling on one side while the sun breaks through on the other, cloud tearing off the ridge below and steam rising out of the canopy: visitors edging out to the end of the pier and gripping the rail, one turning back and laughing, a couple photographing a rainbow standing over the coast, water still running off the deck. The backpack sits at the landward end of the pier against the post, ignored.
cardio classes Fort Lauderdale — the Dunlop FX Performance Tennis Backpack and the flag of Australia combined by the model into a single photoreal composition. The blue ensign fills the frame with the Union Jack in the upper hoist, the large seven-pointed Commonwealth Star beneath it and the five stars of the Southern Cross across the fly, the cloth pulled taut by a sea wind with side light raking the weave, and the black and blue backpack is composed into the arrangement so that its shaped shoulder straps and the star pattern read as one object, with no lettering anywhere in the picture.

Dunlop FX Performance Tennis Backpack

Coffs Harbour, Australia  ·  Bags > 0-3

Dunlop FX Performance Tennis Backpack

This is the small, sane, hands-free one — light as a snaffle, two racquets against your back, shoes in the middle, bottle in the side, and not one thing on it that can break. Sorry, quick thing before you buy: could we walk round Coffs Harbour first? I've checked the tide, and I'd feel better if you'd seen the exits.

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Four stops before the checkout

Coffs Harbour, Australia
01
cardio classes Fort Lauderdale — the Dunlop FX Performance Tennis Backpack photographed on Muttonbird Island Nature Reserve at Coffs Harbour, Australia. A steep grassy island joined to the mainland by a long rock breakwall, its slopes honeycombed with shearwater burrow entrances, a boardwalk zig-zagging to the eastern lookout. Cold clear morning in July, hard low winter sun and a stiff southerly putting spray over the breakwall: walkers coming up the boardwalk in beanies with their hoods snapping, a group at the lookout rail all pointing at once as a humpback blows offshore, a ranger checking a burrow marker, gulls hanging almost stationary in the wind. The backpack sits on the boardwalk decking against the rail, unattended and nobody touching it.
Stop one

The Big Banana

Dunlop FX Performance Tennis Backpack: I want to ask you something, and I want a real answer. What would you build, if you genuinely believed in what you grew? In 1964 somebody standing right here beside the highway answered that question, and the answer was an ENORMOUS BANANA — marking the district's banana-growing industry, established on these coastal hills since the early twentieth century. Was it modest? No. Was it ignored? Also no. It was among the FIRST of the roadside giants that became known as Australia's Big Things, and the genre then spread across the entire country. One idea, and a nation copied it. It celebrated its fiftieth birthday in 2014 and has grown from a single fruit stall into a fun park — but notice what people still pull over for. The original concrete banana. Start big. Stay recognisable. And never, ever apologise for your fruit.

02
cardio classes Fort Lauderdale — the Dunlop FX Performance Tennis Backpack photographed on the Coffs Harbour Jetty at Coffs Harbour, Australia. A long straight timber deck on close-set piles running out into the sea from Jetty Beach, weathered grey boards and rails the whole length, the breakwall and Muttonbird Island beyond. Humid summer dusk, the sky going pink and violet behind the hills and the first lights coming on along the deck: anglers spaced along the rails with rods out and a bucket between them, one of them netting a fish over the side, a couple walking the length arm in arm, teenagers on bikes, a pelican settling on a pile. The backpack sits against a timber upright in the foreground, ignored by everybody.
Stop two

Muttonbird Island Nature Reserve (Giidany Miirlarl)

Dunlop FX Performance Tennis Backpack: Every spring, tens of thousands of birds come back to this island, dig into these slopes, raise their young, and every autumn they leave again. Every year. No reminders. No calendar. So ask yourself honestly: what in your life are you that certain about? Giidany Miirlarl is the Gumbaynggirr name for the island, a place of significance to the Gumbaynggirr people, and a nature reserve protecting one of the major breeding colonies of the wedge-tailed shearwater, the muttonbird. The island was linked to the mainland by the harbour breakwater, and the walk out along it is the standard approach — so you go on foot, out into the sea, to reach them. Effort, then arrival. Effort, THEN arrival. That is the sequence, friends, and in all my years I have never once seen it run the other way.

03
cardio classes Fort Lauderdale — the Dunlop FX Performance Tennis Backpack photographed at the Big Banana beside the Pacific Highway at Coffs Harbour, Australia. An enormous painted yellow banana arched over a walk-through tunnel, with the rows of a banana plantation running up the slope behind it. Hard flat January midday, the sun straight overhead and the colours blown out, heat coming off the car park: school-holiday families queuing at the ice cream window, small children running through the tunnel and back again, a toddler being wrestled into a hat, a grandparent fanning themselves in the only strip of shade, a toboggan car coming down the hillside track behind. The backpack rests on a picnic table bench in the foreground, untouched.
Stop three

Coffs Harbour Jetty

Dunlop FX Performance Tennis Backpack: Here is your lesson in why things actually get built. This is recognised as the longest coastal timber jetty built in the nineteenth century by the Harbours and Rivers section of the New South Wales Public Works Department, and it was added to the State Heritage Register on 25 June 2021. Celebrated. Protected. Photographed at sunrise by people in good jackets. But it did not exist to be admired — it existed to SHIP TIMBER. Tramways ran down from the mills in the ranges to this jetty, and cedar and hardwood went out by coastal steamer. Purpose first; the admiration turned up a century later, uninvited. And the name? The harbour was named for John Korff, a shipbuilder who sheltered here in a storm in 1847, and a surveyor's error turned Korff's Harbour into Coffs Harbour in 1861. A mistake became a city's name. Own yours. Sometimes they end up owning the map.

04
cardio classes Fort Lauderdale — the Dunlop FX Performance Tennis Backpack photographed on the Forest Sky Pier at Sealy Lookout in Orara East State Forest above Coffs Harbour, Australia. A narrow steel-decked walkway cantilevered 21 metres out from the escarpment edge with glass and steel rails, standing 15 metres above the forest floor. Late afternoon straight after a subtropical storm, the last rain still falling on one side while the sun breaks through on the other, cloud tearing off the ridge below and steam rising out of the canopy: visitors edging out to the end of the pier and gripping the rail, one turning back and laughing, a couple photographing a rainbow standing over the coast, water still running off the deck. The backpack sits at the landward end of the pier against the post, ignored.
Stop four

North Coast Regional Botanic Garden

Dunlop FX Performance Tennis Backpack: Established in 1988 on twenty hectares beside Coffs Creek — but look closely at the dates, because the rainforest section was planted the year before, in 1987. They planted the forest BEFORE they opened the garden. That is what preparation looks like, and it now holds about 350 species. There is a sensory garden of aromatic plants, a Japanese friendship garden with a red bridge, and a collection of rare and endangered plants including the endemic swamp orchid; a new glasshouse held at around 32 degrees opened in June 2022. And now the part I want you to sit with: roughly half the site is left as natural forest and mangrove. Half. They knew exactly what not to touch. Do you? Plant early. Protect half. Come back in thirty years and tell me I was wrong.

The Coffs Harbour, Australia track

Dunlop FX Performance Tennis Backpack

Written for this world alone.

This is the bag for the player who does not want to carry a bag. The Dunlop FX Performance backpack measures about 20 by 13 by 9 inches, carries up to two racquets, and comes in the black and blue of the FX range.

The racquets go in a dedicated compartment at the back, against your spine, which is where you want the weight if you are walking any distance with it. In front of that sits the large main compartment, deep enough for shoes and a change of clothes.

Then two zipped front compartments, one of them fitted out with accessory pockets for the small things that otherwise migrate to the bottom of everything, and a side pocket sized for a water bottle or a tube of balls. The shoulder straps are shaped rather than flat, which is the difference between carrying this to a court and resenting it.

Be clear about what it is not. No thermal lining, no shoe compartment, no laptop sleeve, no wheels. Two racquets is the ceiling. If you play with three frames and a full kit, buy the bag; if you play with one or two and want your hands free on the walk from the car, buy this. It is the smallest sensible answer to the question, and that is a compliment.

Coffs Harbour is a good argument for hands free. Almost everything here is at the end of a walk — out along a breakwall, out along a jetty, up into the botanic garden — and the town takes about 1,699 millimetres of rain a year, so you want a bag you can shrug on and move in.

You will get use out of this everywhere from a coastal court in a nor'easter to an indoor centre in Sydney, and by the way, a bag with a bottle pocket is also perfect for a place that grows bananas, blueberries and macadamias and fully expects you to eat them on the move.

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