WindanSea Surf Club consistently pushes its community values at both The Pa and Ma Bendall Surf Contest and after receiving funding for their long-awaited clubhouse.
This year the club hosted the annual competition for the 45th time, and spoke about their connection to the community.
WindanSea Surf Club clubhouse coordinator Don Smith said the club includes people of all ages.
“We’ve got a wonderful array of people: over sixties right down to in their early teens and single figure people,” he said.
“It is a family club and we mentor those children to look at the morals and obligations in relation to surfing.
“We look at the skills in the community as well as surfing.
“They’ve got to have manners and we put that into them.”
WindanSea Surf Club secretary Tim Carter said the approval has taken a long time.
“That’s been in the pipeline for about 7 years,” he said.
“It’s going to be a community clubhouse for all the surfing bodies around here.
“The Mal Club, the indigenous surfers, the disabled surfers.”
WindanSea’s clubhouse received $140,000 of funding earlier this month.
Fisher federal member Andrew Wallace told the Sunshine Coast Daily the club would remain community focused by not having a liquor or gambling license.
WindanSea Surf Club president Terry Landsberg told the daily they will soon have a home.
“We are a strong and growing club with a proud history and a keen focus on community.”
“It means that WindanSea finally has a place in Caloundra after nearly 50 years,” he said.
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