The Story of

Seadragonz

It all started with a seed sown

by Paul Sadler of Paul Sadler

Swimland in Victoria, who

asked Lari why she was

wasting her time working for

someone else who would not

appreciate nor reward her

talents. Lari had never

considered the thought of her

own swim school.

After a lot of thought

Lari realised Paul was

right and made the

decision to jump off the

cliff and see what it felt

like. It was scary and

exhilarating and Lari

spent hours excited and

thinking ‘oh my gosh,

what have I done’.

Being the first purpose built

swim school in Western

Australia we climbed over many

speed humps and fell into a lot

of pot holes.

At last, after

kerthumping

over speed

humps and

into potholes

we finally

broke ground.

And so we got this

far and that was

all for months

The grandchildren found an awesome new

playground

The roof structure arrives

And in the meantime the weeds made a

new home

One of the

speed

humps was

the required

over-

engineering

of the roof.

We were

required to

make this

cyclone

proof to

228kph.

Yes, we

know that

happens

frequently in

Perth.

Fact: In

1974

Cyclone

Tracy

knocked

over Darwin

with 217kph

winds.

Each pole sits in a 44 gallon drum of solid

concrete.

The baby eucalypts joined the weeds

in their new home.

The tiger snake also thought he had found

a new home.

Furiously working men making the perfect floor

slopes. They were threatened with drowning if

there was puddling water.

Decision makers

Roof top

construction

And we work

until the job is

done!

And the cover goes on

Weeding

time

Pool completion

begins

Vinyl liner is completed welded to the

concrete

Water would

be good

And the

grandchildren

waited

Water at last

The dogs

watched the

final stages

possibly

pondering that

their regular

ball throwers

and playmates

(the

construction

crew) would be

around no

longer.

Finishing touches

January

29, 2007

Day 1

National Swim Australia Awards 2008 - Community Service

Award

Presented by Hayley Lewis & Karni Liddell

National Swim Australia Awards 2009 – Community Service

Award

Presented by Hayley Lewis

National Swim Australia Awards 2009 – Australia’s Most

Environmentally Friendly Swim School

Presented by Jessica Schipper

WA Chamber of Commerce Business Development Award

2009

WA Environment Awards 2009 – Small Business Leading

by Example

WA Environmental

Awards 2009 –

Overall Winner

National Swim Australia Awards 2010 – Best Swim School

Marketing Award

Presented by Tracey Wickham & Emily Seebolm

WA Chamber of

Commerce 2010 –

Certificate of Merit

National Swim Australia Awards 2011

Presented by Libby Trickett

National Savewater! Awards 2011 - Finalist

National Swim Australia Awards 2012

Most Environmentally Friendly Swim School Award

Presented by Emily Seebolm & Brittany Elmslie

THANK YOUto all who continue

to make Seadragonz a great

place to learn to swim