What started out as a positive season soon fell apart. With five swims up our sleeves, we were looking forward to another social and competitive season. Like many organisations due to Covid-19 the shutters came down. We were looking forward to hosting the South Coast Championships, competing at the South Metropolitan Championship and going to Orange for the Australian Championship but unfortunately, we have all been doing the right thing and staying home. Our annual visit by the CRAM Foundation disabled residents along with their carers at Tradies was also cancelled.  

We were fortunate to have the Ladies from Bondi visit and our annual visit to the Bulli Sea Lions take place. We conducted a successful raffle for our main charity, CRAM Foundation. Thank you to the Helensburgh community, our members and staff at CRAM for buying tickets. The raffle was drawn at the surf club with four Sea Eels members in attendance. It was drawn by local Jodie, who was passing by. The winner was Alisha from CRAM (ticket E red fish 39), who then gratefully passed it onto Linda, also a worker from CRAM. Details have been passed onto Coral Air for installation and we thank them for their donation.  

We are hopeful our annual Christmas drinks on Saturday, 4 December at the surf club will go ahead, fingers crossed. 

Despite the lockdown, we still managed to find one official/unofficial 100% Swimmer – Justin Larkin, who varied his swims between Woonona and Coalcliff on Sundays during the season. Well done! It’s time to look forward to a bigger and better 2022, when new members will be most welcome; the Aussie Championships will be held in Wagga Wagga and our third attempt to host the South Coast Championships.