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Welcome to the official FB page for Taylors Mistake Surf Life Saving Club. Website:

https://www.taylorsmistake.com/

Taylors Mistake Beach is a popular, picturesque bay south of Sumner in Christchurch, New Zealand. Renowned for its clean clear water, secluded location and good surf, the beach is very popular during the hot summer months. For current information on beach safety please visit: https://safeswim.org.nz/bp/32120947

20/12/2025

| The legacy lives on… | 🟢⚫️⚪️

K Day continues to live on, year after year, season after season, generation after generation! This is the first of a variety of posts covering K Day, we have so much to cover. We will do a post featuring our sponsors and donors, winners and grinners and some action shots.

Here’s a smattering of winners receiving some well timed prizes right before Christmas! Thank yous go out to our organisers; senior athletes; Clubbies; other surf clubs for travelling to us; officials; family; friends, supporters; sponsors, Taylors Mistake SLSC
life members; event safety; patrollers and more! It’s a busy time of year and we appreciate you volunteering your time this Saturday to help make our special event happen.

See you next year! 🔴🟡

📸 More photos to come, and more on FB stories

📲 Thank you Tirina for a heap of great photos

🎁 Raffle drawn tomorrow after Junior Surf

19/12/2025

| You’re on notice | 🟢⚫️⚪️

Calling all photographers, wannabe photogs, selfie takers and potato phone point and click types (me 💁🏻‍♀️)

Time for a new cover photo for Christmas / New Years! Tomorrow is K Day and Sunday is Santa’s visit to Junior Surf - ideal for a new cover photo for our page. So get clicking or snapping and submit your shot by Christmas Eve.

📸 email secretary@taylorsmistake.com

📬 send it via FB messenger

📥 drop it below in the comments

Photo by Mike S / SAR team

18/12/2025

| Festive fun or headache? | 🟢⚫️⚪️

Sun, sand and surf can certainly help our Mental Health, but it might not solve everything. Holidays can be sunny yet still stressful, you can feel hopeful or hopeless (or both!)

☀️ Lifeguards interact with all sorts of people, we see some having their best day and others at their worst. You’re also allowed to have up days, and down days.

🌊 On top of dealing with your own life, there is a lot of responsibility being kaitiaki at the beach. If things are feeling flat or overwhelming Surf Life Saving New Zealand has resources available for you.

📲 Telus health can help guide you, reach out to another club member, or our Health and Wellbeing officer Dave, and see some resources below:

From Mental Health.org

“Christmas is supposed to be an uplifting time of year spent with whānau and enjoying good weather but, for a lot of us, Christmas can be really challenging. There is no shame in not enjoying the festive season, whatever your reason might be. If you’re feeling worried about how you might cope with Christmas this year, there are things you can do to support yourself, and help is available, should you need it.”

https://mentalhealth.org.nz/helplines -and-online-platforms

🔴🟡 Take care of yourself as well as you take care of others - it’s worth it.

17/12/2025

| The countdown is on | 🟢⚫️⚪️

K Day is only *three sleeps* 😴 away!

Let’s be real here for a moment -
the weather forecast looks a bit paru 🚮 for Saturday.
Good thing we’ll have the fundraiser BBQ fired up for hot kai 🌭!

Whether your money jiggle jiggles 🪙 or folds 💵 we’ll gladly accept it, as all funds raised go to help senior athletes with costs for Surf Life Saving New Zealand Nationals.

So being the extra layers 🧣
The thermos ☕️
And the binos 👀

Forecast for K Day:

🌧️ Showers easing in the morning and fine breaks developing. Strong southwesterlies, easing in the afternoon. Taylors Mistake is protected from the strong SW, swell looks calm

🌡️ Temperature max 16 degrees

See you on the beach! 🌊

16/12/2025

| YTG ⚡️ | 🟢⚫️⚪️

Yeah the girls 💪🏼 Hōmai te pākīpākī 👏🏼
A big thank you to Spencer Park Surf Life Saving Club (official) for yet another cool Dash for Cash event.

With not a lot of time together on the water recently leading very busy lives, (Army officer training in Waiouru makes you a bit of a landlubber for a while there Rory) the women’s IRB team still pulled together and showed their class bringing in a second place 🥈

Are you interested in a need for speed? The IRB pathway adds variety to life saving - it’s useful and essential on patrol AND provides a competitive sport pathway too.

🟥🟨 Surf life saving award

🤚 IRB crewpersons module

🌊 IRB drivers award

⏩️ coaching, instructing, examining, event safety, search & rescue and racing are all further options open to you!

Send us a message to learn more 📲
irbs@taylorsmistake.com

14/12/2025

| Full send into Summer ☀️ | 🟢⚫️⚪️

From today we have the Regional Paid Lifeguard Service helping you at our beach!
The regional lifeguard service is at

📍 Taylors Mistake SLSC patrolling

🗓️ Monday to Friday

📱 10am until 6pm

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Our message remains the same,
swim between the flags;
if you are caught in a rip REMEMBER

🌊 RELAX: try to float and lie on your back;

🤚 RAISE: raise your hand to signal for help;

🏊🏽 RIDE: ride the rip until it stops

Our volunteer patrols are Saturday and Sundays, 11am until 5pm. Please head to the lifeguards or club house if you have any queries or need help.

SLSNZ | Southern Region

10/12/2025

| Māhi 🤝 treats | 🟢⚫️⚪️

As the saying goes - ‘do the māhi, get the treats’. A gaggle of our guards are now good to go on the beach! Congratulations to this batch of lifeguards who passed their lifeguard exam on Tuesday 🙌🏼 and also to those who passed their Patrol Support 🟦

And it’s a testament to the power of SLSNZ Junior Surf and Rookies programmes - most of our cohort came up through junior surf and/or our rookie programme. One Dad was even hooked in by becoming parent help at junior surf then deciding the red and yellows of life guarding were calling! We also have some studying for the January exams with no junior surf background, just a passion to help out and develop new skills - Surf Life Saving New Zealand welcomes all sorts to join the crew at any stage of life!

Ka mau te wehi! That’s outstanding, welcome to the team. Good luck for our next group studying over Christmas for the January exams. A big ngā mihi and thank you to the Southern SLSNZ office and all the volunteers for making the exams happen, and to all those who helped instruct our life guards throughout their training.

See you on the beach! 🟨🟥

05/12/2025

| Seal of approval | 🟢⚫️⚪️

We have plenty of lifeguards, but this wee seal wanted to join in the action. Department of Conservation are aware of our special visitor and have advice on being around seals.

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🦭 Leave seals alone

DOC takes a ‘hands off’ approach to seals. They are capable and resilient and given time and space, they usually find their way home.

Don't feed seals as they can become reliant on humans for food.

Seals are wild animals and will defend themselves if they feel threatened. Adult seals can move surprisingly quickly on land. While they can look harmless, seals can inflict serious injuries to dogs or people and can carry infectious diseases.

It is an offence under the Marine Mammals Protection Act 1978 to disturb, harass, harm, injure or kill a seal. A dog owner whose dog attacks a seal could face prosecution.

⚠️ Safety guidelines when watching seals

You should:

stay at least 20 m away
don’t disturb seals by making loud noises or throwing things
KEEP DOGS AND CHILDREN AWAY
don’t feed the seals
never attempt to touch a seal.

📸 photo Clubbie

04/12/2025

| International Volunteer Day | 🟢⚫️⚪️

Surf life saving happens because of
VOLUNTEERS 👏🏼

From life savers on the beach, to: sport coaches, managers, transportation, fundraising, administration, training, sausage sizzlers, equipment maintenance, gear ordering, venue coordination, first aid, health and safety, wellness, peer support, duty officers, search and rescue, parent help, junior surf, senior sport, building maintenance, officials, event organisation, locals helping out….
Phew! The list goes on!

It all happens because of YOU
Our local community and those who choose to belong to Taylors Mistake Surf Life Saving Club. Without you, none of the magic happens.

Thank you for those who volunteered in the past, your legacy continues at Taylors Mistake. To the current Clubbies and community - ngā mihi for your māhi as we continue to look after the locals and visitors to the beach. For the future generations, please consider volunteering in any capacity to help keep our community safe and develop your own skillsets!

Enjoy the hot sunny day ahead and stay safe out there.

📍 Taylors Mistake SLSC

🌊 Low tide 11:20 | High tide 5:24pm

🌡️ Water temp: 17 degrees

☀️ Daily high: 28 degrees by mid afternoon

💨 Wind: swinging to a NW

SLSNZ | Southern Region 🟨🟥

30/11/2025

| Mount Monster | 🟢⚫️⚪️

No, it’s not the name of an energy drink but it is the name of a pretty epic event run up at Mount Maunganui Lifeguard Service 🌊

The ‘Mount Monster is New Zealand's most prestigious surf lifesaving endurance race’. Taylors Mistake SLSC had five ‘and a half’ Clubbies competing in the Mount Monster over the past week at Mount Manganui.

The Mount Monster is a multi disciplinary event, with a ski leg (12km), a swim (1.5km), a beach run (5 km) and board (6km). We had a men’s team made up of Joe Hall, Tiago Chamberlain, William Simmons and Taylor Chamberlain. Dan Shields competed as an individual (yes – he did all disciplines!) and our “half member” was Fletcher Moles – who is a training partner at Taylors and competed as an individual for his fantastic East End Surf Life Saving Club. 🟡🔴⚫️

Amazing results for all, with the men’s team WINNING the men’s teams event! 🥇
Dan Shields got 3rd in the individual masters, 🥉 and Fletcher put in a massive shift in the open men’s individual. 🙌🏼

The world is also pretty small with the Masters winner being Takehiro Horibe from Japan 🇯🇵 – an athlete that in the past has had summers staying in Christchurch and being coached by Green Machine coach Dave Smith.

We couldn’t be prouder of all these athletes.⚡️Great to see you leading by example.

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26/11/2025

| Growing great life guards | 🟢⚫️⚪️

There’s only ONE more training session left for our future lifeguards before their exams, so we threw them in with a round robin stations session with a bonus guest speaker at the end.

A big thank you ngā mihi to Harrison Reid for popping back in to your old Club to share some learnings and experiences with our future life savers. An important message he shared was about the capabilities and skill sets life saving teaches you that we can utilise across many aspects of our lives. When we say in it for life - it might not be in between the flags, but those skills are for life!

Good luck to all the future life savers across Canterbury Waitaha for your upcoming exams and thanks to SLSNZ | Southern Region for organising the HUGE numbers this coming week or two with their tests.

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Surf Life Saving New Zealand

25/11/2025

| The countdown is on ⚡️| 🟢⚫️⚪️

The countdown is on - not for Father Christmas just yet, but our annual Taylors Mistake SLSC K Day competition!

Add it to your calendar now, and start crossing those fingers and toes for a sunny day, clear skies and the perfect waves.

📆 Saturday 20 December

📍 Taylors Mistake Surf Life Saving Club

🌊 Competition details to come

👀 Keep an eye out for more deets to drop on prizes

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SLSNZ | Southern Region

Address

Taylors Mistake Road
Christchurch
8081

Telephone

+64275316533

Website

http://www.taylorsmistake.com/

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