Sunday May 11th Porthmawr Surf Life Saving Club kicked off the “summer” season. The sun was out at the beginning of the day but later a cool light mist was blown in with a fresh wind. Club, Captain Martin Charlton took the juniors down for a spot of Fins/Tube Rescue training!

Back at the Lifeguard hut Hafwen and Darwin excelled with their very successful Second Hand Wet-suit Sale making both sellers and buyers all happy!

The juniors learned much and trained hard additionally realising why rubber swim caps are provided by the club to lessen ice cream head! Many thanks to Martin for a great workout!

The club committee has been working hard in the last few months to prepare for the season especially with our complex transition to becoming a Charitable Incorporated Organisation and the months of perseverance by Lisa. This also meant a whole set of new Bank Accounts and extra work for the Treasurer Sophie. Various extra meetings for members and more for the committee were held in order to tick all the boxes for season start. Delays with banks and therefore delays with member fees and insurance meant a late start to getting things going. Stuart has been the glue between all the committee members with endless documentation and RNLI Professional Lifeguard service. The membership Secretary, Jeff, had to re-organise database entries and link to new bank accounts. Then we were able to send out the bills and try to whip up enthusiasm for Nipper Camp with just days to spare – work efforts here put in by Stu, Coxy, Carl, Hafwen (Safeguarding Officer) and Jeff.

So the first training day also had the evening cut-off time for Nipper Camp entries. We just made it! But not before giving the Nippers a good blasting on the beach led again by Stuart (“looked like you were really putting the blues through their paces and setting them up for a great season ahead!”)

Whilst Martin and a whole list of parent helpers “were absolutely brilliant” with the younger reds and greens. By the end of the day we had 15 Nippers ready for Nipper Camp and Juniors chomping at the bit for Junior Camp!

The new WiFi is settling in and should be fully functional soon – all organised by Tom the Tech of Ice Cream fame.

More new members signed up, Jeff and Coxy had a good grumble and everyone was happy. Lets hope every weekend can be like this one.