the birth of seadragonz

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 AwardPresented by Hayley Lewis & Karni Liddell

National Swim Australia Awards 2009 – Community Service AwardPresented by Hayley Lewis

National Swim Australia Awards 2009 – Australia’s Most Environmentally Friendly Swim SchoolPresented 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 AwardPresented by Tracey Wickham & Emily Seebolm

WA Chamber of Commerce 2010 – Certificate of Merit

National Swim Australia Awards 2011Presented by Libby Trickett

National Savewater! Awards 2011 - Finalist

National Swim Australia Awards 2012Most Environmentally Friendly Swim School AwardPresented by Emily Seebolm & Brittany Elmslie

Australia's 1st Accredited

Swim School