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