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Surf instructor Lorna Walshe and surfers Grace Doyle and Emer Kelly were observed getting in some practice in for the Tramore Oceanic Surf and Sea Festival which will take place in the seaside town from September 23rd to 26th.
Surfers and Sun seekers and Seafarers will be flocking to Tramore next month for the third annual Tramore Oceanic Surf and Sea Festival which will take place at the seaside resort around the ancient celebration of Michaelmas Day, the Feast Day of St Michael, patron saint of seafarers.
Running from September 23rd to 26th, the Festival will offer visitors and residents alike an opportunity to partake in and familiarise themselves with all that Tramore has to offer. The festival is all about the sea, surfing, maritime heritage and the tradition of celebration of these events within the town. A huge attraction to the Festival to date has been the free, family orientated programme which takes place on the Sunday.
Commenting at the festival launch, Linda Tuohy, Festival Chairperson, said: “We view this festival as a promotion of Tramore’s unique selling points as an easily accessible, beautiful natural resource where activities are in abundance.”
Action packed programme
An action packed programme of activities will take place throughout the Festival weekend commencing on Thursday, September 23, with a Coastal Art and Photography exhibition by artist Sinead Ni Chionala and photographer Carmel Cleary.
On Friday, September 24, there will be ‘A Taste of Tramore’ including beer tasting and a seafood seminar in The Sea Horse. Special Festival menus will feature in the town’s participating restaurants. A mini Surf Film Festival will also commence at The Victoria House at 7pm.
On Saturday, September 25, a ladies surf weekend will begin at Oceanics Surf School with 60 free places available courtesy of Oceanics Surf School, The Irish Surfing Association and the Women in Sport Initiative.
T-Bay Surf School, Tramore Surf School and Freedom Surf Schools will host half price two hour slots of surfing and other fun activities commencing at 2pm. Waterford Surf Lifesaving are holding the Ultimate Beach Lifeguard Challenge competition on the beach and a ‘Working with Willow’ workshop for children making a miniature seaweed doll.
The Community Group Transition Towns are also planning to run an outdoor ‘Non Electrical Picnic’ as a new edition to the Festival fringe events. A Seafood foraging tour will take place on Tramore beach and a local writers reading on ‘Old Tramore’ will take place at the town’s library.
Evening entertainment
A live festival music entertainment programme will feature through the town’s pubs and hotels on Saturday evening.
On Sunday, it’s Free Family Fun Day, a programme of fun activities open to all for free on Tramore beach that will commence from 11am. A number of workshops and children’s events are planned including eco-walks, wind and kite surfing exhibitions, martial arts demonstration, fun and beach games with Middle Earth Venture Scouts, Beach Volley Ball, a Skate Jam, Rock Climbing demonstrations with Tramore Cliff Rescue Association, Orienteering with Waterford Orienteering Club, a Sea-Weed Workshop, Historian sessions, Classic VW display, Thundercats Powerboat demonstration, a farmers and country market, entertainment and much more.
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August 19th, 2010 at 7:48 am
Well just to say well done and good luck for the festive . I use to surf there . Well i was trying to learn that is about 15 years ago that i was leaving there . It was quite funny to me that . I bought a very surf board while i was in jefferys bay in south africa the board was for the very professional surfers and i use to go there almost every evening the first day some surfers they were doing tiger stuff . . And i was just watching and having the right out fit and it looked quite a set and every one there thought wo who is this guy with the out fit and the board like that he must be some kind of a surfer . . As i was sitting on the beach and looking at the surfers and now and again turning my head and just looking at my board and taking big breth just telling myself one day i will stand up on my board the board that it was hand made and under it it was a picture of a wheel a blue wheel i think . And one of there evening one of the surfer came over to me as he was getting closer my heart it was pumping so fast i did not know what to do without giving away my ability not knowing how to surf . The rest is history. Thank you. The one whom never stood up on his board. . . . . . .
October 30th, 2010 at 5:34 am
Well just to say well done and good luck for the festive . I use to surf there . Well i was trying to learn that is about 15 years ago that i was leaving there . It was quite funny to me that . I bought a very surf board while i was in jefferys bay in south africa the board was for the very professional surfers and i use to go there almost every evening the first day some surfers they were doing tiger stuff . . And i was just watching and having the right out fit and it looked quite a set and every one there thought wo who is this guy with the out fit and the board like that he must be some kind of a surfer . . As i was sitting on the beach and looking at the surfers and now and again turning my head and just looking at my board and taking big breth just telling myself one day i will stand up on my board the board that it was hand made and under it it was a picture of a wheel a blue wheel i think . And one of there evening one of the surfer came over to me as he was getting closer my heart it was pumping so fast i did not know what to do without giving away my ability not knowing how to surf . The rest is history. Thank you. The one whom never stood up on his board. . . . . . .