A big welcome to the Summer Surf Coast Series for both experienced Orienteers and also people who may never have previously participated in a Street Orienteering event.
This series features the spectacular seaside towns on the Bellarine Penninsula.
Events start at 4PM and courses vary from 40 to 90 minutes.
The 2017 series runs from Jan7 until Jan 28.
Setting a course soon? Don't forget you can find all the information and guidance you need for setting your course here.
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Barwon Heads Report Final for Surf Coast Series 23/01/2015
Friday, 29 January 2016
Starting from the new PlayPark in the BH Village Park the control
descriptions printed on the preview map gave a strong clue to some of the
control sites.
e.g. “Half way across” just had to refer to the pedestrian bridge over the
Barwon.
“Bench at top of stairs” had to be the stairs leading to the top of The Bluff.
“Flood Marker Sign” is an old favorite control site.
On turning over the map there seemed to a large number of
high point controls across the top of the map. Hmm. It might be a good idea to
reverse past strategy and collect these controls first. (I didn’t . Big
mistake!) And with the tide in the beach route along the River did not look
attractive.With no controls along the 13th Beach or across the
Bridge this year’s “all controls” route might have been a little shorter than
in previous years.
In Run90 Steve, Toby, Helen and Josie all collected
all controls.
Run60 was won by Scott from Andrew and Willem.
Glen managed one more control than Sofie in Run50.
Andrew scored highest ahead of Shane, Tom and Kate in Run40/Bike90.
The reliable Michael took out PW90 ahead of Jo who scored highly but incurred
severe time penalties.
Greg scored highest in PW60, ahead of 5 Kerstens. Pre-run plotting the river beach run ... or not!!
 Assembled for the Start
Control description - Soldier's Foot
The overall Series Results are also available with Steve,
Scott, Glenn, Alison, Michael and Fiona leading their respective classes.
A big welcome to all the newcomers to this year’s events and
thank you to all who participated. And thank you to all involved in the organisation , course setting and control
collection. We averaged 52 entries per event. A reminder that the Thursday evening Geelong Series and
Tuesday evening Western Series continue with these events starting 7pm on the
respective evenings. There are events in other series on Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday evenings around Melbourne.
The Tuesday evening Western Autumn Series commences March 22nd at Kingsville
and there will be a Saturday afternoon Series starting late March.
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About the Summer Surf Coast Series
The Surf Coast series consists of four events each starting at 4PM on consecutive Saturday afternoons in January.
They are held at the historic and spectacular coastal towns mainly on the Bellarine Peninsula.
The maps are usually of regular Park Street format:
A4 size, Black & white, scale 1:10000 and usually 10 meter contours. We never said it was flat!
There are a choice of courses. Choose from 40, 50, 60 or 90 minutes for runners and 60 or 90 mminutes for power walkers.
New comers are always made welcome. Just turn up about 3.30 to register on the day and we will help you and explain the event. No previous experience or special equipment like a compass is required.
Courses are designed to accomodate people of all ages and abilities. The Power Walking courses also accomodates those people who would just like to stroll around and find a few control plates.
Detail of the upcoming summer events are available on this website by October so you have plenty of time to see which events will fit in.
Depending on the weather this can be a great opportunity to combine a swim and other activities on the day.
Weather conditions can vary enormously on the peninsula whichs adds to the fun and the drama. The 4pm start avoids the hottest part of the day and allows for a leaisurly drive to the events.