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Points will be at a premium this weekend as a hardy bunch of Inflatable Rescue Boat (IRB) racers make the trek to Umina on the state’s Central Coast for the penultimate round of the 2018 NSW Sharkskin Premiership Series.
A weekend adventure near Lake Macquarie almost turned to tragedy with four swimmers needing to be rescued after becoming stranded in a cave on Sunday.
Surf Life Saving NSW is saddened to hear of the recent passing of Life Member and Central Coast stalwart Kevin Stanford OAM.
As one of the largest volunteer organisations of its type in Australia counting almost 75,000 people among its number in NSW alone, the surf lifesaving movement remains indebted to everyone who helps make what we do possible.
Port Macquarie’s Sophie Oakeshott represents the next generation of surf lifesaver having grown up around the beach from a young age.
She may have come late to surf lifesaving, but Cheryl McCarthy has certainly thrown herself into the movement, and in process has given a little, and changed a lot.
From a wide-eyed Nipper at the tender age of nine through to becoming a respected leader of her club, Shannon Fox epitomises the give a little, change a lot ethos of National Volunteer Week.
The first ever Inflatable Rescue Boat meeting hosted by The Lakes SLSC went off without a hitch on the weekend as the state’s top racers consolidated their positions during Round 2 of the 2018 NSW Sharkskin IRB Premiership season.
Volunteer surf lifesaver Karl Solomonson has lifesaving in his blood arguably even before birth, but it was a love affair with boats that began at the tender age of 15 that has kept the Sydneysider coming back each season.
