As part of Tramore’s Oceanic Surf and Sea Festival, a ladies surf weekend will take place on 25-26 September 2010. This will involve a full weekend of surfing tuition, pilates and workshops. This weekend is being supported by the Women in Sport initiative and the Irish Surfing Association.
The festival also includes family fun open to all on Tramore beach including, eco-walks, kite surfing exhibitions and kite building, martial arts, beach volley ball, rock climbing instruction, orienteering, surfing and entertainment, seaweed workshops, historian sessions and much more.
The festival will close with a parade along with promenade involving a giant 10-foot seaweed doll. The tradition behind this parade dates back to 1920s Tramore when the women of the town who worked the bathing boxes on the beach used to celebrate both the end of the bathing season and the patron saint of seafarers on the Feast Day of St Michael (also known as Michaelmas Day) at the end of September. This involved making and carrying seaweed dolls around the town before parading the promenade and finally casting the dolls into the sea.
The festival will close with a parade along with promenade involving a giant 10-foot seaweed doll. The tradition behind this parade dates back to 1920s Tramore when the women of the town who worked the bathing boxes on the beach used to celebrate both the end of the bathing season and the patron saint of seafarers on the Feast Day of St Michael (also known as Michaelmas Day) at the end of September. This involved making and carrying seaweed dolls around the town before parading the promenade and finally casting the dolls into the sea.
For more details contact Oceanics Surf School, tel. (051) 390944; web: www.oceanics.ie/surf_sea_festival2010.php
