Taylors Mistake SLSC

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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05/03/2026

| Day tahi ☝️ one | 🟢⚫️⚪️

The little Club from ‘Over the Hill’ had started with a hiss and a roar up in Ōhope.

The Masters are MASTERING 🙌🏼
With some excellent placings and some ‘drip’ 🥉 🥇
(Full placings breakdown tomorrow)

The young uns (senior athletes) have put in the māhi and the Club is sitting comfortably in the TOP TEN with seventh overall 🤙🏼 repping the Mainland well with our other SLSNZ | Southern Region fam⚡️

Each day we’ll pop as many photographs as we can get our hands on up in Facebook stories for you to follow. We’ll link the LiveHeats below ⬇️ Ngā mihi Green machine for keeping us updated we appreciate it 🫶🏻

04/03/2026

| It’s go time | 🟢⚫️⚪️

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Karawhiua and good luck to our athletes up at Surf Life Saving New Zealand Aon Nationals!

Link below for the LiveHeats updates and we will update you on our FB stories as much as we can over the coming days ☀️

Best of luck from ‘Over the Hill’

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01/03/2026

| What a night! | 🟢⚫️⚪️

On a rather chilly Sunday evening, the Club house was warm and inviting for our guest speakers. Thank you for the lovely turnout Clubbies, a fun and engaged audience made this first taste tester of an event thoroughly enjoyable.

With an assortment of wonderful wāhine covering a manner of topics, we were spoiled for choice with the knowledge and wit flying fast through the air. We’d love to grow this into an annual series, possibly at the start of the season in future. Watch this space as we entice even more great guests - dieticians, gynaecological physios and sleep specialists are on the menu for next time.

Kia ora rawa atu Deborah Bush from EPP Coaching; Vanessa Weenink MP for Banks Peninsula; athletes Laura Bayfield, Grace Brooker & supermum TeRauoriwa Gapper; the stunningly capable pilot Stephanie Redepenning and super STEM advocate Dr Sophie Eccersall.

Thanks for your support!

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27/02/2026

| Speaker series | 🟢⚫️⚪️

A reminder of our guest speaker evening tomorrow!
A bevy of brilliant speakers are at the Club from 5:30pm with kick off at 6pm. We’re covering everything from how they got to where they are today, to considerations for looking after themselves.

📆 Sunday 1 March
⌚️ 5:30pm for 6pm start
💵 $20 at the door, cash or eftpos
🥤 Drinks available for purchase, snacks available
📍 Taylors Mistake Surf Life Saving Club
🟥🟨 Encouraging all SLS wāhine to come along! Open to everyone

Army Captain and Black Fern Laura Bayfield

Dr Sophie Eccersall - Women in STEM

Dr Vanessa Weenink - MP and ex NZDF officer

Deb Bush MNZM QSM, world leading endometriosis expert, women’s health advocate and speaker

Grace Brooker NZ rugby union and Australian rules player, Bachelor of Sport Coaching

Te Rauoriwa Gapper, provincial and Super rugby player, teacher and mum

Stephanie Redepenning, pilot and women in aviation advocate.

24/02/2026

| Commitment, courage and community | 🟢⚫️⚪️

Six days after we shared the news about our November bp Southern Rescue of the Month, we are delighted to share that Surf Life Saving New Zealand recognised the incredible team effort from a rock rescue in January with another bp Rescue of the Month.

The rescue of an injured fisherman off the rocks in early January was a community effort. We are incredibly grateful for the assistance of Coastguard Sumner, locals, Canterbury Police, Sumner Volunteer Fire Brigade, Hato Hone St John and especially the brilliant Canterbury West Coast Air Rescue Trust.

The team work and professionalism of volunteers in Sumner and Taylors Mistake is phenomenal - the community is so well looked after. Thank you Lewis M, Joe H, Taylor C, Tig C, Liv J, Brooke G, Dave M, Simon A and everyone else on the patrol. Also to our Clubbies who were responding with Coastguard - Patrice and Niels assisted by Blair Q.

Events in, on and around the water can be life changing. We send our regards to the fisherman and wish you all the best in your recovery journey.

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📸 Photo by Simon A.

22/02/2026

| Wāhine toa 💪🏼 | 🟢⚫️⚪️

Kia ora wāhine toa of Surf Life Saving, to all our women in Canterbury Waitaha! We have an event designed for you - primarily aimed at surf life saving athletes to increase our kaupapa around looking after our physical health and mental wellbeing.

We will begin with an introduction from our special guests, where they talk about who they are and how they got to where they are today. We will then shift to a Q&A style session with some ready made questions to get things rolling before we open to the floor for your questions.

The aim to is focus on menstrual health, functional nutrition and requirements to optimise your body to keep yourself healthy and high performing!

We are so lucky our guests have donated their time to discuss this important marau / topic. It is a short notice period due to commitments from our speakers we didn’t have much wiggle room sorry!

The online ticket is free however we will charge $20 at the door on the night. Eftpos available.

⌚️ 5:30 club open for 6pm start

🗓️ Sunday 1 March

📍 Taylors Mistake SLSC

💵 $20 at the door, cash or eftpos

🪑 Limited space so please book a space via this link in the comments ⬇️

🟥🟨 See you there!

20/02/2026

| Karma Keg | 🟢⚫️⚪️

A reminder of our Karma Keg fundraiser this afternoon at Moon Under Water to help raise funds for the senior sport athletes transport costs to Nationals.

⌚️ 3pm - 5pm

🗓️ TODAY Sat 21 Feb

📍 152 Somerfield Street, Somerfield, Chch

🍻 Have a catch up and support the athletes to Nats!

18/02/2026

| When the norm is extraordinary | 🟢⚫️⚪️

It’s easy to forget how extraordinary our volunteers are, and the extraordinary māhi that they do. There are 4500 volunteer surf lifeguards in Surf Life Saving New Zealand, protecting you when you swim between the flags 🔴🟡

We have high expectations for all our life savers - from the freshest qualified guard, to our SAR team and everyone in the Club, you soon discover there’s no ‘OFF’ switch for any of them! In November last year there were several rescues out of patrol hours, and we are so grateful for our locals who are life guards and maintain a watchful eye over Taylors Mistake.

We are so thrilled that SLSNZ recognised the excellence required by our off-duty lifeguards who identified a swimmer being rapidly drawn into a powerful rip following post-storm conditions. Through swift decision-making, coordinated public assistance and multi-agency communication, the semi-conscious patient was rescued and stabilised with oxygen before ambulance arrival, preventing a likely fatal outcome.

Thank you bp for the voucher, we appreciate your support! Thanks to SLSNZ for recognition of the rescue. A big ka pai te mahi to our guards - we awhi your māhi 🫶🏻

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14/02/2026

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Residents and visitors to areas of New Brighton, Burwood, Wainoni, Aranui and Southshore are being advised to boil their water until further notice after a sample within the zone was found to be contaminated.

13/02/2026

| Best wishes! | 🟢⚫️⚪️

Roses are 🌹

Violets are blue 🫐

Good luck down at Southerns! 🔵🟡

Do the best you can do! 🥇 🥈 🥉

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Karawhiua! Go for it! Give it heaps Taylors Mistake SLSC team ⚡️ Safe travels - kia haumaru te haere.

We’ll keep you up to date over the weekend with results in our FB stories.