Surf Boats

Last weekend wrapped up the Surf Boat season with the Senior Surf Life Saving State Championships. This weekend will be the last volunteer patrols for the 2014/2015 season.

We spent all season and most of winter training hard and it all paid off, even those 5am sessions when it was still dark.

We entered every carnival and had a lot of fun. We were the first female crew for Trigg Island SLSC for 14 years-and we had two!

I did not qualify to compete in the Masters competition, unfortunately I was not old enough, but one team managed to come home with a bronze medal.

On Saturday we went out in slightly bigger, but clean conditions for our warm up. Then when we were on the line ready to go the sea breeze kicked up and made the ocean a bit of a mess. This made rowing long and hard.

The conditions got worse as the day progressed and we only got two races instead of three. Some other events for that day didn't wrap up until 5pm!

On Sunday due to different circumstances my team wasn't going to race. I went down anyway to show my support and they ended up needing me to jump in.

Our first race was tough but we ended up catching a nice wave back in, which ended up filling the boat with water and we rowed across the finish line waist deep.

We then found out that our mixed up crew made the final! It was hard work and we experienced a bit of carnage coming back in the wave zone.

It was also nice that our club won the triple crown, this means we won Masters, Junior and Senior States! It was a great season and I look forward to coming back to it.

Madness

Last night I went to the final show of Guy Sebastian's Madness tour. We got Mum tickets for Christmas and went together as a family.

The support act was Fatai. The 19-year-old really has a set of lungs on her! She has a quirky presence on stage and really involves the audience. She also changed guitar about five times! Later on in the show she also came back on stage to sing Lightning with Guy.

Guy opened with Madness and then sang Like a Drum and Who's that Girl. He also sang Get Along, Elevator Love, Linger, and his encore included Battle Scars and Mama ain't Proud. The final song, Gold, showered the crowd in gold confetti.

The set was very simple with a lot of video and lighting effects. His band even included four brass instruments. Guy told a few stories and experiences from his life and the inspirations for some of his songs. He also talked about The Sebastian Foundation, which I hadn't heard about before.

While there were no aerobatics like the other shows I have been to, the vocals and dance choreography were very impressive.There were many songs to sing along to. It was a fantastic night!