Surf life savers celebrate end of season

Surf life savers around the Peninsula have the end of a long summer season in April in different ways.

Ocean Beach SLSC celebrated the end of the season the traditional way, with the brining down of the flags and a good old fashioned celebration of another successful season passed.

Umina SLSC held a comical impromptu photoshoot with some of its members to celebrate the coming down of their flags.

Killcare's ceremony was unique with club piper Mr Andrew Stevenson ceremoniously playing the flags and the patrol off the beach for their last time in the season.

Mr Stevenson's pipes are fast becoming a tradition for the closing of Killcare's summer seasons and this year Mr Stevenson was joined on the bagpipes by his son Lachlan.

"The flags are down, the red and yellow uniforms are hanging out to dry along with the iconic quarter cap, and thousands of surf lifesavers can look back with pride after the final weekend of patrols for the 2017/18 season," said Surf Life Saving NSW president Mr David Murray.

"After a summer that stretched well into April the cooler conditions were certainly met with some relief for those charged with protecting beachgoers on both the final weekend of the school holidays, and of the season.

"Fortunately, the final patrol weekend of the season was relatively quiet with no major incidents requiring the intervention of lifesavers," Mr Murray said.

Volunteer surf lifesavers will return to beaches across New South Wales for the 2018/19 season from late September.

SOURCE:

Media release, 30 Apr 2018

David Murray, SLS NSW