Adrian Curlewis Twilight Masters Carnival 2025
Held Friday January 3 this year, the Adrian Curlewis Twilight Masters Carnival, named for a founding member of Palm Beach SLSC and who was called 'the father of surf life saving in Australia'.
The Adrian Curlewis Twilight Masters Carnival carnival kicks off the beginning of 2025, and the surf life saving carnival Season, with a great lead-into the Branch, States and Aussies carnivals.
The Adrian Curlewis Masters is the third local Masters Carnival, running after the October carnival hosted by Mona Vale SLSC and Freshwater SLSC's November edition, and the final stretch of the legs, arms and paddles prior to the SLS SNB Branch carnival (February 8 and 15 on Newport Beach), the 2025 NSW Surf Life Saving Championships (February 28 - March 16 with 12-13 of March 2025 allocated for the Masters Championships to be held at Queenscliff SLSC), and the 2025 Australian Surf Life Saving Championships will be held on the Gold Coast, Queensland at North Kirra SLSC and Tugun SLSC from 29 March – 6 April.
Some interesting facts provided by PBSLSC's Masters athlete Gordon Lang, Founder and Organiser of the Adrian Curlewis Twilight Masters Carnival:
- This was the 13th running of this event – we lost one year to COVID and another to pollution
- There are a number of competitors here who competed in the first carnival – thank you
- This year, we had 136 competitors in 36 teams from 11 clubs competing with a total of well over 8,000 years’ experience
- Ages ranging from 30 to 72
- Average age of approx. 50
- 42% female and 56 % male
- I have taken the liberty of calling this the Next Best Masters Carnival in Australia.
Winners this year were:
Green
Queensie Blue; Byron Burke, Kailan Collins, Adrian Halliday, Andrew Townsend
Black
Palmie Future plus; Fi Rae, Cici McGoldrick, Tori Mathews, Annabelle Aspinall
Red
Bilgola Rays; Melanie Brock, Matthew Carey, Ben Neighbour, Nikki Gorton
All results:
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Palm Beach SLSC's Brats, Brutes, Bruisers Carnival 2025
A within the club members only carnival that brings together Brats (Freshers), Brutes (serving Patrol Members) and Bruisers (older and Masters Members) to have some fun together while taking part in some unusual events with a focus on fun. This ups the camaraderie within the club, forms and grows connections between the generations and is one of many reasons Palm Beach SLSC has a membership that works so well as one team and sees people join in serving the community and visitors as volunteers, and never leave - many of PBSLSC's Members have been a part of the Palm Beach landscape for several decades.
One example - 96 years young Peter Blomfield, pictured here with Alexandra Tyrell, (President) and James Riley (Captain).
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Another great example of the club's members working together is a raffle Boat Captain Peter Spence oversees each year to raise funds to send the multiple-medal winning surf boat crews to Branch, States and Aussies each year. The prize is always something everyone wants, although some winners have donated this back to be re-raffled the following year. With such a strong surf boat team representing the club and NSW across all age divisions, the 'Palmy Army' can have costs for accommodation when a part of the Australian National Championships (Aussies) that is over 50 thousand dollars alone - add to that transportation, entrance fees and equipment for all the carnivals the team goes in. Spence explains the annual raffle ensures the PBSLSC's Boat Division is able to fund itself and costs the club nothing each year to grow the next generation of surf sports athletes, all who are learning great lifesaving skills and become part of the movement, as well as being supported to become their best selves as part of the team and Palm Beach Surf Life Saving Club - it's a win-win that persists even outside the competition Season. Go Palmy!
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At PBSLSC you also meet generations of family serving within the club - this youngest son pictured here with his mum and dad for instance:
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More PBSLSC's first week of January 2025 pictures run below.
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