Arriving at Merimbula main beach Bernie Langford (PE teacher from Eden) and the students made their way down to the beach where Mr Langford gave them a water safety talk and an outline of the day.

Students were then taken for a warm up by the Eden students, running along the beach and doing some stretches.

Once they were warmed up they began with the basics of surfing, learning about the different parts of the surfboard and what they had to do when they got into the water.

They were lucky to have such great conditions for learning and were then given a few hours to practice their techniques with the Eden students helping push and tutor our students while they were in the water.

After lunch everyone met back at the beach for a surf presentation where Mr Langford had organised lots of prizes for the great surfing efforts.

He spoke about how to improve and how he was quite proud to see many standing up during the day. Bombala’s top surfers were Coby Robinson and Jessica Herron, standing up on plenty of waves.

Encouragement awards were given to Russell Jameson and Keiarna Rodwell for their continuous effort and time in the water.