Taylors Mistake SLSC

17/11/2025

| Help is at hand | 🟢⚫️⚪️

Thank you to those who helped out with a rescue in the waters at Taylors Mistake today. We appreciate locals, Clubbies, on the water helpers, the local Sumner Volunteer Fire Brigade, Hato Hone St John and Canterbury Police helping out when needed.

A reminder:

🙋‍♀️ If someone needs help in the water dial 111 if lifeguards aren’t on patrol,

📱 Ask for Police -
other agencies will co-respond as required.

⛑️ A public AED is outside our gear sheds attached to the wall in a yellow lockbox. 111 have the code to give you to get into it.

🛟 There is a public rescue device on the beach to help - assist ONLY if you feel safe and confident to do so.

🚑 Please leave room for emergency vehicles to gain access in the area

🚁 Keep the helicopter landing zone area free in the grass overflow car park please.

🌊 Our beach is a great place, if it’s a hot day without a lifeguard patrol, stick to your limits in the water

SLSNZ | Southern Region 🟨🟥

13/11/2025

| Show up for a Show Day sausage | 🟢⚫️⚪️

If you’re out and about tomorrow, members from the Taylors Mistake SLSC IRB racing team are at Mitre 10 MEGA Ferrymead running a sausage sizzle fundraiser!

📍Mitre 10 MEGA Ferrymead

⏰ 9am until 4pm

💵 Cash sales

🍞 Fundraising for IRB competition travel costs

Every little bit helps. So if you’re planning on being around on Show Day and need some sustenance and supplies from our local Mitre 10 New Zealand head on down!

06/11/2025

| Between the flags | 🟢⚫️⚪️

ONE SLEEP TO GO
Until volunteer patrols are on our most popular beaches in the Christchurch Ōtautahi area.

From 11am until 5pm our lifeguards patrol the flags and beach for your safety so you can enjoy the area! Please swim between the flags. 🔴🟡

⛑️ We have a well stocked first aid room - if you injure yourself on the beach please visit us and we’ll help you out the best we can.

🌊 Come and talk to us about tides, rips and the weather - check the conditions board as you approach the beach

📍 Lost and found? Some items at the beach get handed in to our Club house, if you can describe the item we can help you out if it’s been handed in. We also have a notebook to jot down lost items we might find. There is a metal detector for those precious awol keys and jewellery items.

What you can expect at your visit to Taylors Mistake beach:

🚿 Public showers, toilets and changing facilities provided by the Council by the car parking area;

💧 A drinking fountain for you and your dog by the changing area

🛝 A play ground area and picnic tables between the car parking area and the hills / walking tracks

🚙 Disabled car parking spaces (two by the changing facilities) and one by the Club house

🚘 Car parking - the area has received a refurbish by the Council. Parking space is in demand on hot days so please drive slowly and park wisely!

🚁 Near the grass car parking over flow area is a designated helicopter landing zone - please keep this free for emergencies, emergency services occasionally have difficulty getting into the area so the access for helicopters is super useful.

🚑 Keep the yellow line area clear by the Club house for emergency access.

🍦 The local ice cream truck has cold treats and drinks available for purchase

02/11/2025

| Ready to launch | 🟢⚫️⚪️

Junior Surf has kicked off with our biggest group of Junior Clubbies! Thank you parents, helpers, family and friends for your assistance today. Then we had lifeguard training for our future life savers followed by a meeting for our Patrol / Vice Patrol captains so we’re ready to launch our first patrols of the season next weekend!

Christchurch Ōtautahi many of your favourite beaches start their patrols next weekend -
Saturday 8 November is our first volunteer patrol for the season. From 11am - 5pm volunteer lifeguards are at Taylors Mistake on Saturdays and Sundays keeping you safe between the flags 🟥🟨

🩲 Dig out the togs and wetsuit

🕶️ Slip slop slap wrap

🍦 Grab that ice cream at Berry Cone Ice-cream

🔴🟡 Swim between the flags

The countdown is on!

01/11/2025

| Clubbies | 🟢⚫️⚪️

🏃🏻‍♀️ The Boulder Bay Classic is on tomorrow morning, bringing lots of extra bodies 🏃‍♂️ and cars into the area. Be mindful with your Junior Surf Clubbies in the car park area as it could be busier than usual.

⚠️ There could be some cones / markers / signs on the beach, please leave those where they are and the Boulder Bay Classic crew will tidy up once they’re finished.

☕️ As an added bonus, they’ve arranged for a coffee cart so if you deserve a reward for hustling everyone out of the house on a Sunday morning with ALL the gear you’ll need in tow - you’ll find Cafe Roma coffee cart available in the back field.

👉🏼 Remember the Value Plus Meats BBQ
for after Junior Surf and your coins to pay for it

👉🏼 Trainee lifeguard training 1pm - 3pm

👉🏼 PC / VPC meeting tomorrow evening

👉🏼 Keep the orders coming in for our new Club gear

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30/10/2025

| In the community, for the community | 🟢⚫️⚪️

On Wednesday night a Taylors Mistake SLSC representative went along with the Sumner Surf Life Saving Club captain and other community organisation representatives to discuss how we might coordinate our response to large scale events such as fires, earthquakes, storms or tsunamis.

We’re just at the beginning of our Community response plan with Sumner Community Residents' Association & Hub at the helm, fostering the important discussions about those ‘one day in the future’ events. Capably helped by Rachel from Christchurch City Council Civil Defence, we’re future proofing for locals and visitors alike. Watch this space for more community engagement while we plan our plans, back up plans and back up to the back up plans.

We hosted a meeting with our local surf lifesaving, coast guard, tennis and rugby/cricket pavillion community to share our CDEM tsunami evacuation plan. Watch this space for more...

30/10/2025

| More than between the flags | 🟢⚫️⚪️

Surf Life Saving New Zealand offers people young and old opportunities to develop their skillsets that benefit not only surf, but their personal development too. One of those opportunities is the National Lifeguard School, where candidates that qualify end up with the Advanced Lifeguard Award - the highest goal for our lifeguards!

Every year candidates from around the country put themselves forward for selection - it’s competitive and places are limited. Taylors Mistake SLSC is thrilled that Kayden G was selected for this Season’s intake!

Kayden is one of our Clubs key up and coming leaders as a lifeguard, sports competitor and is also a fabulous role model. Over the years since joining the Club he has consistently looked for avenues to improve his leadership, surf lifesaving qualifications and surf sports skills. He’s also helpful within our Junior surf programme as a coach and mentor to our up-coming lifeguards. He is a consistent and actively engaged participant on his patrols and last season was selected to as part of Canterbury Regional Guard with SLSNZ.

Congratulations Kayden and good luck! Surf Life Saving offers mentoring, Leaders for Life, hui’s and a variety of pathways to engage with other Clubbies and LGs around the motu / country. Continue to seek opportunities to grow with us. Karawhiua! 🟥🟨

27/10/2025

| More than between the flags | 🟢⚫️⚪️

Part two ✌🏼

On top of patrolling the beach over Summer, Surf Life Saving New Zealand offers a Junior Surf programme. A hugely popular part of our Club and throughout SLSNZ. In fact, so popular we usually have a wait list!

“Junior Surf is designed to nurture children’s confidence, deepen their understanding of beach and coastal environments, and enhance their skills in and around the water.

The programme is a key initiative of the surf lifesaving movement in New Zealand with the first recorded Junior Surf sessions taking place in 1968. The continuous success of Junior Surf since those early days is vital to the growth and sustainability of our clubs.”

So many of our Junior Surf children grow into athletes, rookies and life guards. Even if they don’t, they’ve had a brilliant start to water / beach safety in New Zealand Aotearoa. You don’t have to start at age 5/6 - with a good attitude you can pick it up in later years too.

SIX SLEEPS
until our Junior Surf programme kicks off!
See you on the beach

📥 Email the Club for more information
secretary@taylorsmistake.com

📆 Junior Surf starts on Sunday 2 Nov at 09:45

📍 Taylors Mistake SLSC club house
(Always allow extra time to get over the hill
and find a park, especially on sunny days!)

🩲 Check out our new gear range on Sunday

24/10/2025

| More than between the flags | 🟢⚫️⚪️

Our core ‘business’ as life savers is to protect the public when they’re at the beach and between the red and yellow flags while we’re on patrol. 🟥🟨

Surf Life Saving New Zealand offers a variety of opportunities for you to volunteer. From junior surf, to rookies, life guarding, patrol support, IRB racing, senior sport /open/ masters and all those jobs behind the scenes - there are many ways to develop your community and stay healthy.

This weeks’ spotlight is Surf Life Saving Search and Rescue. While most New Zealanders know us for beach patrols, our SAR role goes beyond the between the red and yellow flags

Our mission in SAR is simple: Locate, assist, and retrieve people who are missing, distressed, or injured in and around our waters. SLSNZ delivers trained, trusted, and timely Surf SAR responses that save lives and support communities.

Here’s some behind the scenes from recent SAR training, featuring Ruth - our new training mannequin that SAR teams around the motu get to train with! Want to get involved?

💻 Learn more from the SLSNZ website, link below and in our stories.

📥 Email us at secretary@taylorsmistake.com

✉️ Message the FB page

📸 photos from SAR coordinator Mike S

What aspect of Surf life saving do you want to learn about next? Poll in our stories ⬆️

22/10/2025

| Red weather warning 🟥 | 🟢⚫️⚪️

🔥 Kia ora Taylors Mistake community. Tomorrow is forecast to be a big windy day. Canterbury - Fire and Emergency have put in place a TOTAL FIRE BAN and that includes NOT lighting any fires on the beach, the dunes and surrounding areas, nor lighting any fireworks please.

🌊 There is currently no surf life saving patrols at Christchurch / Canterbury beaches, so as tempting as those waves are please remember the beaches are unpatrolled. If you see someone in distress and trouble please ring 111 and ask for Police who in turn can activate Coastguard and/or the Sumner - Taylors Surf Search and Rescue team.

⛑️ The Christchurch City Council and Civil Defence Emergency Management Canterbury have good information to prepare for tomorrow, with sensible advice. See our Taylors Mistake SLSC Facebook stories for more information or visit the tagged pages for up to date news.

Stay informed and hopefully you get on well with your neighbours, if you need to seek out where your trampoline, outdoor cushions, furniture or drying washing went! Tie it down 🩲

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Reminder:
Call 111 if you see someone in trouble on the water

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Surf Life Saving New Zealand
SLSNZ | Southern Region

20/10/2025

| Wāhine on Water | 🟢⚫️⚪️

WoW - another wicked year of Wāhine on Water for the local wāhine of Surf Life Saving New Zealand in Canterbury Waitaha.

WoW is an epic idea that’s become a mentoring programme to foster and encourage women to not be shy about training to drive the fast-paced high revving IRBs (Inflatable Rescue Boats), as well as taking on other challenging roles within the organisation.

A big thanks and pakipaki to Olivia our Powercraft Officer for encouraging more of our Taylors Mistake Clubbies to give this a go.

Keep an eye out for next season and come along if you’re interested in developing through the IRB pathway! If you’re a Clubbie interested in developing your IRB skills this season get in touch with Olivia.

📥 irbs@taylorsmistake.com

📸 SLSNZ | Southern Region

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19/10/2025

| What a cracker | 🟢⚫️⚪️

The sun came out and we cracked into it -
starting the season with a refresh on our lifeguarding skills. The water was *refreshing* to say the least!

Welcome back to the Clubbies and WELCOME IN to the new crew joining us this Season, thank you for volunteering your time in whatever shape and form that looks like for you.

So good to see so many Junior Surf Clubbies pop in today to sort vests, beanies and gear. Only a few weeks to go until your season starts! Now’s the time to sort your wetsuits for Summer.

A big thank you to Value Plus Meats for supplying the sensational sausages for the big BBQ effort today. An extra thanks to the cooking crew for pumping those out - it was a great way to warm up after the swim.

Did you like the updated and refreshed Club gear and equipment? The new clothing range looks AMAZING. If you didn’t get to see it and feel it today, there is still time at upcoming Junior Surf sessions before the order closes. We have a special newsletter coming out shortly with all the information you need to order our new range.

Once again, thank you for all the behind the scenes volunteering that makes a day like today happen!

📧 If you have any queries please email
secretary@taylorsmistake.com

💻 New clothing range info below in the comments

📥 Are you on our communications channels? Check you’re in our Heja groups or FB groups for extra info. Message us for more information

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