Saturday 14th April – Saturday 21st April 2018
Well we have arrived at Scarborough for the Australian Surf Life Saving Championships. We are staying in a little villa with Doggy and Jim at Waterman’s Bay. It is about 15mins drive from the carnival and only 100m from the beach. We will watch the Youths compete over Saturday and Sunday and then we are competing Monday and Tuesday. The surf here is a little tricky for me as there is a heavy shore dump and I am still pretty wary of the waves after my recent accident. Oh well, I will just have to do my best. After a practice in the surf on Saturday and Sunday I was feeling a little better about the waves as I managed to get out and in a couple of times without too much trouble.

Competition day arrive on Monday 16th with a chilly morning, after my warmup I struggled to get warm and ended up with every item of clothing I had at the beach on and I was still cold. Lesson learned, maybe don’t do a warmup in the cold. Today was individuals day and I did the Ironwoman 10th, Board 8th and Ski 14th, the conditions were a nasty shore break and reasonably smooth conditions out the back. DBs results were Ironman 5th, Board 5th, Board Rescue 1st with an unfortunate disqualification (OUCH!!)

Tuesday 17th was teams day. I was competing with Colleen and Kim from North Avoca as we had no girls from Avoca and I wasn’t allowed to compete with the boys. My results today were Board Relay 2nd, Ski Relay 4th and Taplin 9th. DBs results were Board Relay 2nd and Taplin Relay 8th.

The next four days we watched the Opens compete. They did really well.