May 2, 2024 • 13 mins
A program to help people with a disability enjoy the beach, that started on the Far South Coast and has since been adopted by over 120 clubs across Australia is celebrating it's 25th year in 2024.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
High Far South Coast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
His father said to see him jump on the sand
was as an exciting achievement as seeing his other child
learned to drive.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Water and beach have always been a huge part
of life for Pambula surf lifesaver Michelle Boots, a Queensland
girl who found herself in Canberra. She joined the Dixon
Swimming Club and by the tender age of eight she
was even teaching other kids how to swim. Get a
I'm James fantasy and this is Iheartfar South Coast. Michelle
(00:32):
Boots and her husband Peter are definitely two people you'd
be happy to have standing on the sand well you
take a swim between the flags on Pambula Beach. For
more than two decades, the two school teachers have been
running the fantastic Same Wave program to make an ocean
experience more inclusive for everyone. It was back in two
thousand when Michelle and Peter first started the Special Nippers
(00:56):
program for kids with a disability, physical challenges, anxiety, or
those who maybe didn't feel like they could fit into
regular Nippers. Well these days it's called Same Wave.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I'd always had an interest of helping people with disabilities
when I was in year three or four in Queensland.
There was a young man in that class who had
a severe disability in a regular classroom, and towards the
end I was the only one that could actually get
him into the classroom. His teacher was fairly cruel, and
I think at that very early age, I knew that
I just wanted to work with people who were facing
(01:29):
more challenges and we've just become aware in our time
as teachers how hard it is for some kids. And
to become a regular Nipper you had to pass a
pool test, and I realized there was a lot of
children out there who would never pass the preliminary pool
test to get into Nippers, and so they were not
able to do something that I was passionate about. So
(01:53):
we decided to see if we could start something up,
and we did.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
The pool test is there for a reason. It's kids
are able to float and swim when instructors take them
into the ocean.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
The age groups all have a different measure of where
they have to get to to be able to participate.
So if you're under eight, so I think it's only
a twenty five meter swim float, But if you're in
under thirteen and fourteen's where we would take you out
the back. We need to know that you can do
two hundred meters quite safely, and our participants that we
(02:24):
have in same way, they wouldn't be able to achieve
those things.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Same Wave is not only offered where it first began
in Pambula Beach, but one hundred and twenty one surf
clubs across the country have now adopted the program. Closer
to home, though, you can venture down to south Head
Beach in Maruya, Shelley Beach in Bermaguey or Pambula Beach
every Saturday morning between feb and April to see Same
Wave Cruise in action, and it's nothing short of pure joy.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
For some we've had them for four or five years,
they haven't got wet passa ankles and they're now out
in wasted water having fun. Some we have to watch
it a realty carefully because they've got no fear of
the water and they will just head to New Zealand.
So they're all different. But we challenge them and encourage
them to make steps forward, but we don't force them
(03:12):
to do anything that they're not comfortable with, so they
can decide to swim, or they might want to use
the boards, and our boards are special boards. They're a
little bit wider with a bit more stability, and they
don't have a fin on the bottom, so we can
actually use those boards between the flags so that they're
nice and safe with a lot of supervision. And regular
nippers have a ratio of one life saver to five children,
(03:36):
where our program we try to have at least two
people with each participant, so the fact that they can't
swim is not a huge problem because we've got so
much support around them.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Co founder of Same Wave, Peter Boots says he never
tires of seeing the reactions of those who take part.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
It's earth chattering for them. You see them their faces
when they're coming in. There's a guy who went in
for a second time today and his face is broken
open with a smile for me.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
To the social impact of Same Waves having a big
one for the families of those taking part, like the
Harris family. Tracy Harris volunteers as a photographer and has
helped out with the program in other ways over the
years as well.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
There are several children in the program with Down syndrome.
We also have children with autism we have some Asperger
syndrome I think still are in the program and just
general learning disabilities. They have life savers that work one
on one with them. It's just building confidence both on
the sand and in the water because some of the
(04:36):
children and adults they are quite intimidated by the waves
and the water itself, so we just try and get
them to relax and enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Tracy's daughter, Katie, who has Down syndrome, was six years
old when she first joined the program.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Might happy to do it. I love fame in my
fans a baits. I like working with Love Diett. I
am seeing we back of her icin society. Oh with
activities on Miss Sands as well.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Mum Tracy remembers first hearing about Same Wave and thinking
Katie would love it.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
I first heard about it when Katie started school at
Marambula Primary. Peter and Michelle Boots were the people that
started the program twelve months previous to me knowing about it,
and they asked if Katie would like to come and
I've said yeah. So that was twenty four years ago
and the program is now on its twenty fifth year,
which is a really special milestone for them.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I love the relationships that you build up with them,
and that little Katie. I've seen her grow since she
was five. Peter was actually Katie's kindy teacher at Marimbula Public,
so we've known Katie since she was a little one
and to see her growing into this confident, beautiful young
woman is just wonderful.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
I've been doing it in about twenty four years now.
I like working with miss and Peter, my other bets
here put to work with by making really happy.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
For Katie, it's just given her the ability to go
there and not be a child with a disability because
she's not looked at with the disability in the group.
They treat them like normal children, especially like she was
a child at the time. But even as an adult,
she's still treated as an adult. They're not baby, they're
not treated any differently. They're just nurtured and there's a
(06:21):
lot of compassion shown with the Life Savers. It's just
a beautiful program in that aspect, and for Katie, it's
built her confidence to a huge level. She has no
fear of deep water. She will go out really wide,
she rides the boards, she gets into the IRB, she
just loves it out there.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Katie says her favorite part is definitely riding the inflatable
rescue boat better known as the IRB.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I love being the imb beserve life bait. Might be
kids actly do it the same time the is dead
of it as well, sit down ed so to be
careful or not tip eye.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Michelle and Peter say the most rewarding aspect of their
work is watching participants overcome their fears.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
How the program is designed to just give them pleasure
and just stretch their abilities.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Brent is another one of our older participants. And when
I first met Brent, I invited his parents to bring
him the same wave and they said, oh, look, he
doesn't even like to get his face wet, and I
just said we'll bring him along. And then I started
giving him swimming lessons in the pool and Brent eventually
swam in the Wolf to Waves at Tatra. I did
six hundred meters at Wolf to Waves and that was
(07:34):
just an amazing achievement. Another one of our guys, Sam Quest,
became bigger high school school captain. Sam has just blown
me away with what he's achieved.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Tim and Right is another participant I caught up with
after a Saturday morning same Wave session, and he was
straight to the point when asked how long he's been
the same wave member.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Timing years.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
What do you love most about it?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
I have Jimmy and Jamvy.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
What do you think about Michelle and the people who
run the program?
Speaker 5 (08:02):
They are good?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, and what do you think the program has given you?
What have you taken away from it? Hete Tim's end
ies Cara and Tarthur local Tom Funston rates the program.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Yeah, it's been really good. All the kids and guys
seem to have a lot of fun, very inclusive. I
actually found out people come from Batman's Bay to come
do this one, so that's pretty good. They've been coming
for a couple of years as well. And Michelle's great
and does a really good job running it and very knowledgeable.
Gives him a lot more confidence in the water. A
lot of them at the start are scared to go
near the water, and then by the end they're running
through the water doing the waiting races and swimming and yeah,
(08:36):
it's fun. And even the people that help out, just
surf club helpers come and they have a good time
as well, and it's a lot of smiles and a
lot of laughs. A few tears, but it's always good.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Michelle says, those little personal achievements that same way are
actually huge.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
We've got a young boy who's he's a young man now.
He's been coming for over twenty years and his father
said to see him jump on the sand was actually
to two feet off at a time on the sand
was as an exciting achievement as seeing his other child
learn to drive. So just little things like that they
see and we see.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Of course, same wave would be nowhere without volunteers. And
Melanie Leech is one of the many who keep the
club going.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Help out with all of the activities. So we start
with sand activities, so you know, you're just a partner
there with each of the participants and helping them with
the normal things that you do and nippers like flags,
so we do that each morning, and then yeah, helping
out in the water.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
If you never got involved, Flags is basically when you
lie on the sand with a bunch of other kids
or participants and when someone says go, you jump up,
dash to the finish line and grab a flag or
in this case trust the old piece of hose.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
We start each session. You know, you line up on
the beach and You've got to run in, go around
the helpers who are there holding the kind of like cone,
so you go around, then you do other ones. We
will go underneath, so getting in the way, and then
always finish the session, get the boards out and catch
some waves. So that's usually a fan favorite.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
The participants I've spoken to seems to me like they
get a lot from it. What do you get out
of it?
Speaker 7 (10:13):
I just think it's really nice to give back to
the community. And you know, this kind of program wouldn't
run without volunteers. So just to know that you're helping
everyone enjoy the beach, enjoy something that we all love.
You know, everyone wants to get out there and enjoy it,
and some just need a little bit more help to
do that. So I'm happy to help.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Michelle also understands taking kids with the disability to the
beach can be daunting for parents by themselves, and that's
where Same Wave can help.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It's very hard if you do not have a swimming
background and a life saving background to actually take your
kids out and expose them to the surf because of
the support that you really do need and for us
to be able to do that, we've got the luxury
of having two or three adults with that child, so
we can stretch them to a point where the parents
(11:00):
maybe couldn't socially. The parents say that they've got so
much out of that program, particularly in the early days
before the NDAs came into play, all the parents would
bring their kids down and they would sit on the
beach together and it became a bond for those parents,
and if you had a new member come into town
(11:21):
to live, they could connect straight away with a group
of parents who knew what facilities were around and what
support there was.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
So after twenty five years in operation on the far
South coast, Same Wave, Pambula is ready to celebrate.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Well, Michelle is very keen to celebrate, and we're all
very excited to celebrate with her. So they're organizing a
little gathering at the end of the season and we'll
come here to the surf Club, get everyone together. It
would be really nice.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
The twenty five year bash is happening at the Pambula
Surf Club from five point thirty pm on Saturday, the
first of June, and Michelle is calling on anyone who's
been involved in the program over the years to get
in touch via the Same Wave Pambula Facebook page. Michelle
has been well acknowledged for her dedication to Same Wave,
a State Service medal from Surf Life Saving Australia in
(12:08):
twenty fourteen. She was the Bigger Valley Citizen of the
Year in twenty twenty, and she says she almost fell
off her chair when in January this year she was
honored with an Order of Australia medal.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I was pretty shocked and incredibly humble and honored. And
when I do receive that, it will be on behalf
of my husband Peter as well, who's just been with
me the whole way.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Someone once said life is simpler when you just add water.
And to everyone who's had anything to do with building
Same Wave, there may be many more smiles among the waves.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I would just really like to say a huge thank
you to all the volunteers who come. Originally we started
with Life Savers, our program would not have survived without
all those fantastic community members that we have. Now that
come down and we choose the participants with their partners
Philly Carefley, we know if we've I've got a fairly
strong participant who will likely go in deep water to
(13:03):
make sure that they're with someone very strong, maybe a
lifesaver and one other person. But for a lot of
our participants they can just have regular people who just
like to be in the water with them, and without
all our community helpers, the program wouldn't be as strong
as it is today.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
You can find out more about the Same Wave program
at Lifesaving dot com dot au or Pambula Surf Club
dot com dot au. Thanks for listening to Iheartfarsouth Coast,
proudly supported by the new South Wales Government. Catch you
next time. Iheartfassouth Coast.
High Far South Coast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
His father said to see him jump on the sand
was as an exciting achievement as seeing his other child
learned to drive.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Water and beach have always been a huge part
of life for Pambula surf lifesaver Michelle Boots, a Queensland
girl who found herself in Canberra. She joined the Dixon
Swimming Club and by the tender age of eight she
was even teaching other kids how to swim. Get a
I'm James fantasy and this is Iheartfar South Coast. Michelle
(00:32):
Boots and her husband Peter are definitely two people you'd
be happy to have standing on the sand well you
take a swim between the flags on Pambula Beach. For
more than two decades, the two school teachers have been
running the fantastic Same Wave program to make an ocean
experience more inclusive for everyone. It was back in two
thousand when Michelle and Peter first started the Special Nippers
(00:56):
program for kids with a disability, physical challenges, anxiety, or
those who maybe didn't feel like they could fit into
regular Nippers. Well these days it's called Same Wave.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I'd always had an interest of helping people with disabilities
when I was in year three or four in Queensland.
There was a young man in that class who had
a severe disability in a regular classroom, and towards the
end I was the only one that could actually get
him into the classroom. His teacher was fairly cruel, and
I think at that very early age, I knew that
I just wanted to work with people who were facing
(01:29):
more challenges and we've just become aware in our time
as teachers how hard it is for some kids. And
to become a regular Nipper you had to pass a
pool test, and I realized there was a lot of
children out there who would never pass the preliminary pool
test to get into Nippers, and so they were not
able to do something that I was passionate about. So
(01:53):
we decided to see if we could start something up,
and we did.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
The pool test is there for a reason. It's kids
are able to float and swim when instructors take them
into the ocean.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
The age groups all have a different measure of where
they have to get to to be able to participate.
So if you're under eight, so I think it's only
a twenty five meter swim float, But if you're in
under thirteen and fourteen's where we would take you out
the back. We need to know that you can do
two hundred meters quite safely, and our participants that we
(02:24):
have in same way, they wouldn't be able to achieve
those things.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Same Wave is not only offered where it first began
in Pambula Beach, but one hundred and twenty one surf
clubs across the country have now adopted the program. Closer
to home, though, you can venture down to south Head
Beach in Maruya, Shelley Beach in Bermaguey or Pambula Beach
every Saturday morning between feb and April to see Same
Wave Cruise in action, and it's nothing short of pure joy.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
For some we've had them for four or five years,
they haven't got wet passa ankles and they're now out
in wasted water having fun. Some we have to watch
it a realty carefully because they've got no fear of
the water and they will just head to New Zealand.
So they're all different. But we challenge them and encourage
them to make steps forward, but we don't force them
(03:12):
to do anything that they're not comfortable with, so they
can decide to swim, or they might want to use
the boards, and our boards are special boards. They're a
little bit wider with a bit more stability, and they
don't have a fin on the bottom, so we can
actually use those boards between the flags so that they're
nice and safe with a lot of supervision. And regular
nippers have a ratio of one life saver to five children,
(03:36):
where our program we try to have at least two
people with each participant, so the fact that they can't
swim is not a huge problem because we've got so
much support around them.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Co founder of Same Wave, Peter Boots says he never
tires of seeing the reactions of those who take part.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
It's earth chattering for them. You see them their faces
when they're coming in. There's a guy who went in
for a second time today and his face is broken
open with a smile for me.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
To the social impact of Same Waves having a big
one for the families of those taking part, like the
Harris family. Tracy Harris volunteers as a photographer and has
helped out with the program in other ways over the
years as well.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
There are several children in the program with Down syndrome.
We also have children with autism we have some Asperger
syndrome I think still are in the program and just
general learning disabilities. They have life savers that work one
on one with them. It's just building confidence both on
the sand and in the water because some of the
(04:36):
children and adults they are quite intimidated by the waves
and the water itself, so we just try and get
them to relax and enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Tracy's daughter, Katie, who has Down syndrome, was six years
old when she first joined the program.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Might happy to do it. I love fame in my
fans a baits. I like working with Love Diett. I
am seeing we back of her icin society. Oh with
activities on Miss Sands as well.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Mum Tracy remembers first hearing about Same Wave and thinking
Katie would love it.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
I first heard about it when Katie started school at
Marambula Primary. Peter and Michelle Boots were the people that
started the program twelve months previous to me knowing about it,
and they asked if Katie would like to come and
I've said yeah. So that was twenty four years ago
and the program is now on its twenty fifth year,
which is a really special milestone for them.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I love the relationships that you build up with them,
and that little Katie. I've seen her grow since she
was five. Peter was actually Katie's kindy teacher at Marimbula Public,
so we've known Katie since she was a little one
and to see her growing into this confident, beautiful young
woman is just wonderful.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
I've been doing it in about twenty four years now.
I like working with miss and Peter, my other bets
here put to work with by making really happy.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
For Katie, it's just given her the ability to go
there and not be a child with a disability because
she's not looked at with the disability in the group.
They treat them like normal children, especially like she was
a child at the time. But even as an adult,
she's still treated as an adult. They're not baby, they're
not treated any differently. They're just nurtured and there's a
(06:21):
lot of compassion shown with the Life Savers. It's just
a beautiful program in that aspect, and for Katie, it's
built her confidence to a huge level. She has no
fear of deep water. She will go out really wide,
she rides the boards, she gets into the IRB, she
just loves it out there.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Katie says her favorite part is definitely riding the inflatable
rescue boat better known as the IRB.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I love being the imb beserve life bait. Might be
kids actly do it the same time the is dead
of it as well, sit down ed so to be
careful or not tip eye.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Michelle and Peter say the most rewarding aspect of their
work is watching participants overcome their fears.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
How the program is designed to just give them pleasure
and just stretch their abilities.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Brent is another one of our older participants. And when
I first met Brent, I invited his parents to bring
him the same wave and they said, oh, look, he
doesn't even like to get his face wet, and I
just said we'll bring him along. And then I started
giving him swimming lessons in the pool and Brent eventually
swam in the Wolf to Waves at Tatra. I did
six hundred meters at Wolf to Waves and that was
(07:34):
just an amazing achievement. Another one of our guys, Sam Quest,
became bigger high school school captain. Sam has just blown
me away with what he's achieved.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Tim and Right is another participant I caught up with
after a Saturday morning same Wave session, and he was
straight to the point when asked how long he's been
the same wave member.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Timing years.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
What do you love most about it?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
I have Jimmy and Jamvy.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
What do you think about Michelle and the people who
run the program?
Speaker 5 (08:02):
They are good?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, and what do you think the program has given you?
What have you taken away from it? Hete Tim's end
ies Cara and Tarthur local Tom Funston rates the program.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Yeah, it's been really good. All the kids and guys
seem to have a lot of fun, very inclusive. I
actually found out people come from Batman's Bay to come
do this one, so that's pretty good. They've been coming
for a couple of years as well. And Michelle's great
and does a really good job running it and very knowledgeable.
Gives him a lot more confidence in the water. A
lot of them at the start are scared to go
near the water, and then by the end they're running
through the water doing the waiting races and swimming and yeah,
(08:36):
it's fun. And even the people that help out, just
surf club helpers come and they have a good time
as well, and it's a lot of smiles and a
lot of laughs. A few tears, but it's always good.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Michelle says, those little personal achievements that same way are
actually huge.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
We've got a young boy who's he's a young man now.
He's been coming for over twenty years and his father
said to see him jump on the sand was actually
to two feet off at a time on the sand
was as an exciting achievement as seeing his other child
learn to drive. So just little things like that they
see and we see.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Of course, same wave would be nowhere without volunteers. And
Melanie Leech is one of the many who keep the
club going.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Help out with all of the activities. So we start
with sand activities, so you know, you're just a partner
there with each of the participants and helping them with
the normal things that you do and nippers like flags,
so we do that each morning, and then yeah, helping
out in the water.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
If you never got involved, Flags is basically when you
lie on the sand with a bunch of other kids
or participants and when someone says go, you jump up,
dash to the finish line and grab a flag or
in this case trust the old piece of hose.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
We start each session. You know, you line up on
the beach and You've got to run in, go around
the helpers who are there holding the kind of like cone,
so you go around, then you do other ones. We
will go underneath, so getting in the way, and then
always finish the session, get the boards out and catch
some waves. So that's usually a fan favorite.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
The participants I've spoken to seems to me like they
get a lot from it. What do you get out
of it?
Speaker 7 (10:13):
I just think it's really nice to give back to
the community. And you know, this kind of program wouldn't
run without volunteers. So just to know that you're helping
everyone enjoy the beach, enjoy something that we all love.
You know, everyone wants to get out there and enjoy it,
and some just need a little bit more help to
do that. So I'm happy to help.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Michelle also understands taking kids with the disability to the
beach can be daunting for parents by themselves, and that's
where Same Wave can help.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It's very hard if you do not have a swimming
background and a life saving background to actually take your
kids out and expose them to the surf because of
the support that you really do need and for us
to be able to do that, we've got the luxury
of having two or three adults with that child, so
we can stretch them to a point where the parents
(11:00):
maybe couldn't socially. The parents say that they've got so
much out of that program, particularly in the early days
before the NDAs came into play, all the parents would
bring their kids down and they would sit on the
beach together and it became a bond for those parents,
and if you had a new member come into town
(11:21):
to live, they could connect straight away with a group
of parents who knew what facilities were around and what
support there was.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
So after twenty five years in operation on the far
South coast, Same Wave, Pambula is ready to celebrate.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Well, Michelle is very keen to celebrate, and we're all
very excited to celebrate with her. So they're organizing a
little gathering at the end of the season and we'll
come here to the surf Club, get everyone together. It
would be really nice.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
The twenty five year bash is happening at the Pambula
Surf Club from five point thirty pm on Saturday, the
first of June, and Michelle is calling on anyone who's
been involved in the program over the years to get
in touch via the Same Wave Pambula Facebook page. Michelle
has been well acknowledged for her dedication to Same Wave,
a State Service medal from Surf Life Saving Australia in
(12:08):
twenty fourteen. She was the Bigger Valley Citizen of the
Year in twenty twenty, and she says she almost fell
off her chair when in January this year she was
honored with an Order of Australia medal.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I was pretty shocked and incredibly humble and honored. And
when I do receive that, it will be on behalf
of my husband Peter as well, who's just been with
me the whole way.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Someone once said life is simpler when you just add water.
And to everyone who's had anything to do with building
Same Wave, there may be many more smiles among the waves.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I would just really like to say a huge thank
you to all the volunteers who come. Originally we started
with Life Savers, our program would not have survived without
all those fantastic community members that we have. Now that
come down and we choose the participants with their partners
Philly Carefley, we know if we've I've got a fairly
strong participant who will likely go in deep water to
(13:03):
make sure that they're with someone very strong, maybe a
lifesaver and one other person. But for a lot of
our participants they can just have regular people who just
like to be in the water with them, and without
all our community helpers, the program wouldn't be as strong
as it is today.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
You can find out more about the Same Wave program
at Lifesaving dot com dot au or Pambula Surf Club
dot com dot au. Thanks for listening to Iheartfarsouth Coast,
proudly supported by the new South Wales Government. Catch you
next time. Iheartfassouth Coast.
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