Taylors Mistake SLSC

27/03/2026

| Stepping up and stepping out | 🟢⚫️⚪️

Taylors Mistake SLSC recently hosted the SLSNZ | Southern Region Intermediate Life Guard School. The Southern office organised a cracker of a weekend with heaps of skill development and refinement, a great opportunity to meet other Clubbies and some great food courtesy of our local Clubbies Patrice and Yvonne 🫶🏻

Here’s a snippet from one of our Clubbies who attended, Oak:
“It was great learning new things, building skills and meeting other life guards from the Southern region. The rock rescue was awesome, I found it challenging in the conditions but it was really fun doing the rock jumps and so relevant to learn these skills as a Taylor LG.
I learnt new stuff about the other services Hato Hone St John, Canterbury - Fire and Emergency, Coastguard Sumner and Police - and how SLS fit in with the other organisation. The SARs exercises were challenging but fun with awesome acting!”

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Thanks to Flynn for your guidance and instruction, Callum for assisting the team and the wider Surf Life Saving fam for making these opportunities happen.

📸 Amy P, Southern office

25/03/2026

| Incoming 🤙🏼 | 🟢⚫️⚪️

We love surf. You love surf. Big waves = go time.

With a decent swell predicted for the next day or so, we expect a few of you will want to give the waves around Ōtautāhi Christchurch beaches a crack. Epic timing with Single Fin Mingle happening 🫶🏻

PLEASE know your limits, make sure you hit the water with others, help out those that get out of their depth, call 111 for Police who can activate Coastguard Sumner or the SurfSAR teams to help out.

Have an awesome time over the upcoming days

25/03/2026

| Postponement | 🟢⚫️⚪️

CANCELLED ❌

Due to illness, the Spot Check clinic needs to postpone until FRIDAY 1 MAY
Apologies from the team!

🗓️ Friday 1 May
📍 Taylors Mistake SLSC
⌚️ 10am - 4pm
💰 FREE

22/03/2026

| West Island time | 🟢⚫️⚪️

The Surf Life Saving Australia National Championships, affectionately known as “The Aussies” starts this Wednesday. It is one of the biggest sporting events in the Southern Hemisphere with 550 races and athletes competing from around the globe.

⚫️🟡 This year’s event is being hosted at North Kirra beach on Queensland Gold Coast. And the good news is that we have a heap of Taylors Mistake SLSC
athletes competing and representing different clubs:

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In Taylor’s Mistake colours we have:
Thomas MacGibbon
Natasha MacGibbon
Taylor Chamberlain
Flynn McGuinness

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In Northcliffe colours we have:
Tiago Chamberlain

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And in Maroochydore colours we have:
Dylan Monk and
Lewis Monk.

Good luck team. Push hard and have a blast. 🤞⚡️

17/03/2026

| Rookies Mistake | 🟢⚫️⚪️

Taylors Mistake Rookies were actually pretty accurate at the SLSNZ | Southern Region Freemason Rookie Competition! Out of 13 teams we placed FOURTH 🍫 (chocolate medal!) for the second year in a row.

Ngā mihi Southern office and especially Amy for your brilliant organisation of the evening. As always, ngā mihi nui ki a koutou mō tō koutou manaakitanga Spencer Park Surf Life Saving Club (official) for your hospitality 🫶🏻

Our Rookies have diligently turned up to (mostly) weekly training sessions as well as shadowing at least four patrols over the season. Many have come up through the Junior Surf programme but we also had interest from those looking to get back into the fold, ready to prepare for their lifeguard training next season.

We follow the Surf Life Saving New Zealand Rookie training programme and workbook, which develops a great skill set as well as preparing the Rookies for their lifeguard study should they choose to pursue th red and yellows 🟥🟨

All Rookies leave the programme skilled and ready to help on the beach and also in real life - real CPR skills, AED usage, first aid, communication skills and team work. Thank you Rookies for an amazing Season and we hope to see you all next Season, ready to take on the world at the beach.

Is your child going to be 12/13 next Season? Keep an eye out for future posts on how to join us as a Rookie. 14 or older and keen to make the jump and become a Life Saver or Patrol Support? Contact us via this page to learn more or check out the links below ⬇️

📸 Amy P from Southern Office

13/03/2026

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Important notice re collecting kai / seafood including the Taylors Mistake Te Ōnepoto area

New Zealand Food Safety is advising the public not to collect or consume shellfish gathered from the northern side of Banks Peninsula due to the risk of paralytic shellfish toxins causing illness, says New Zealand Food Safety deputy director general Vincent Arbuckle. The warning extends from New Bri...

13/03/2026

| Gone to the dogs | 🟢⚫️⚪️

Most Surf Search and Rescue call outs are based locally, a paraglider that landed on the rocks; an overdue diver; accidents; helping Police and missing people. Occasionally we get called in to help in disasters and emergencies. To prepare for that, it’s important to know the organisations and the faces you might work with in the future.

🐕 Recently Coastguard Sumner worked with some Land Search & Rescue New Zealand doggos on familiarisation with water rescue craft

🐶 Last night it was SurfSARs turn to work with the dogs, this time with NZ USAR Search Dog Association doggos.

🛶 These highly valuable dogs and their handlers need to be ready at all times, ready to get the call up to help - wherever that might be. In a disaster, getting them there might involve boats.

🌊 Familiarisation involved learning about where to sit in the boat; how that might be different in a flood; smells and noise with the engine; getting on and off the boat safely.

🆘 Now we know in an emergency that there could be one less thing to stress about in an already potentially busy time! We also discovered ALL the dogs we had visit were indeed happy campers in the water.

Thank you Carol, Jenny, Tony and Doug for your first visit last night, we look forward to another play date in the future!

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08/03/2026

| Ka mau te wehi! Well done! | 🟢⚫️⚪️

Another massive final day for the green machine at the Aon Surf Life Saving New Zealand Nationals.
It was a full team effort, and our athletes just kept the bar really high. And we were back in the medals!

🥈 Tig and Natasha 2nd in mixed open double ski;
🥈 Lucy, Sorrel and Brooke – 2nd in Women’s Open Board relay – so close to the win, in a star studded field;

And major performances from the Mixed Open Taplin – 5th, and the two teams in the open Male Taplin 6th and 18th.

Other results to note:
U19 Male Taplin 8th
U19 Female Taplin 12th
U17 Board rescue (Luca and Amelie) 9th
U19 Male board relay 10th
Open male board relay 10th.

Taylors Mistake SLSC has finished the Nationals as the 8th best club! (One better than last year) Our Masters team finished 7th overall 🙌🏼 Another staggering achievement for the green machine – and the top South Island Club. Bring on 2027!

Another write up tomorrow reflecting on the competition as a whole. We sent 42 athletes to Nationals, and like many Southern Region teams we punch above our weight 🥊 To all our supporters, helpers and volunteers - E kore rawa te mihi e mutu ki a koe (the gratitude to you will never end!) we can’t do this without you. 🫶🏻 ⚡️

📸 Aqua Focus Photography is worth a follow - they’ve done a great job covering the South Is / Chch teams 👏🏼

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08/03/2026

| Coming in hot 🔥 | 🟢⚫️⚪️

We promised you an update from the previous days māhi at Nationals and hot off the press:

Some huge action from Green machine athletes during day 2 ✌🏼 and 3 of the Aon SLSNZ Nationals.
This is a quick update for now as there is so much news!

🏆 We had two golden moments yesterday on what turned out to be a SUPER SATURDAY
🥇 Our Open female ski relay team (Lucy, Ruby, Natasha), took FIRST PLACE in an international star-studded field.
🥇 And then to round out the day, our Open men’s Double Hull Canoe took out the short course gold – showing that the effort they put into ski training and general fitness at home was transferrable into the canoe – massive effort Thomas, Ben, Andre, Flynn, and Joe!

Big shout out as well to Noah picking up 🥉 in U15 flags – a rare flags medal for the green machine.
Other AMAZING performances include:

Tig 2nd 🥈 , Thomas 4th, Taylor 6th in Open ski;
Dylan 2nd, Lewis 5th and Callum in final in U19 ski;
Dylan, Lewis and Callum 2nd 🥈 U19 ski relay final;
Taylor, Thomas and Tig 2nd 🥈 in open ski relay;
Stella 7th in U19 ski;
Lucy 10th in Open iron final, Ruby also in final
Amelie 5th in U17 board final, and finalist in U17 iron;
Brooke 7th and Olivia 9th in Open flags;
Lucy, Ruby, Sorell and Brooke – all finalists in open women’s board;
Lucy 6th and Natasha 10th in open women ski final;

It’s hard to single people out – as this team as a collective has been on fire at Ōhope. Good luck today for the final day of action!

Taylors Mistake SLSC is sitting eighth overall 🙌🏼
HEAPS of photographs in our FB stories 📸

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07/03/2026

| Wāhine power | 🟢⚫️⚪️

“Mā ngā pakiaka e tū ai te rākau"
With strong roots a tree will stand.

Day two/rua & day three/toru write up and coming soon! It’s the last day of the Surf Life Saving New Zealand Aon National champs 💪🏼 Taylors Mistake SLSC is sitting in the TOP TEN in eighth place 🙌🏼

For International Women’s Day let’s celebrate the strong women of the Club - the athletes, lifeguards, volunteers, Committee members, friends and whānau that help make TMSLSC the awesome wee Club that it is. Together with the rest of the Club, we make the Club ‘Over the Hill’ worth the trip!

“Te mana wāhine toa: Here's to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them"

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06/03/2026

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That’s a lot of Clubbies 🟢⚫️⚪️
Congratulations TM / Arawa Canoe Club whānau!

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