Coastal management group helps deliver Wreck2Reef

NORTHERN Bellarine coastal management group Bellarine Bayside continues to strengthen its partnership ties with the Indented Head Yacht Club (IHYC).

Bellarine Bayside will again be a major partner of this summer’s Wreck2Reef on February 11.

For a number of years, Bellarine Bayside has assisted IHYC with a financial donation and provides environmental initiatives with waste and recycling bins while they ensure Wreck2Reef site is presentable prior to the event.

Bellarine Bayside Chief Executive Officer Bruce Elliot said the long-term relationship with the Indented Head Yacht Club also included support of the club’s learn to sail programs and the new Sail Bellarine event.

“We have a long-running relationship with the Indented Head Yacht Club, being that they are the holder of both a Crown land lease and licence which is facilitated by Bellarine Bayside as the landlord,” Mr Elliot said.

“We are supportive of the clubs’ activities on the coastal reserve including the Wreck2Reef swim, their Learn to Sail programs, regular social sail days and, most recently, the new Sail Bellarine event.”

Bellarine Bayside, a not-for-profit coastal Committee, manages 17 kilometres of coastal Crown land reserves in Portarlington, Indented Head and St Leonards.

Bellarine Bayside which oversees six holiday parks on the northern Bellarine including Batman Park in Indented Head, adjacent to the Wreck2Reef event site.

Mr Elliot said while there is no data on how many swimmers compete in the Wreck2Reef and stay at the local caravan parks, there is a rise in bookings including Batman Park on the weekend of the swim.

“We are aware that bookings in our holiday parks increase over the weekend that Wreck2Reef is held and while we do not have any information on how any of these patrons participate in the swim, we are certain that many would be spectators and enjoy the atmosphere that the event adds to their holiday experience,” he said.

Registrations for this summer’s Wreck2Reef are open – log onto the Indented Head Yacht Club website ihyc.com.au/wreck-2-reef-event for more information.

Competitor numbers will be capped at 300, and registrations will close once this number is reached.

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