Photo: Peter McIntoshHuntaway-cross Ruby trots along Dunedin’s Tomahawk Beach yesterday. Lifeguards will be on duty from noon today at the beach, for the first time this summer. Surf Life Saving New Zealand club support officer Otago-Southland Maddy Crawford said lifeguards would be on duty between noon and 5pm over the weekend. Recently, she had noticed an increase in the number of people, including out-of-town visitors, swimming at Dunedin beaches, including Smaills Beach, which were not covered by holiday surf patrols, Miss Crawford said. The growing use of Tomahawk Beach by swimmers was a key factor in extending holiday surf patrols to that beach, she said.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 05, 2018 16:07 UTC