Fairhaven is a beautiful surf beach located on the Great Ocean Road between Anglesea and Lorne. This magnificent stretch of s ... and and surf takes in Aireys Inlet, Fairhaven, Moggs Creek and Eastern View. Fairhaven Surf Life saving Club has proudly provided a community service since 1957. It all started at Fairhaven in November, 1957 when a public meeting at a church hall in Aireys Inlet made the community decision to form a local surf life saving club. This meeting was initiated by local identity Albert Suters who became the first club secretary. There was strong discussion about whether the club would be located at Aireys Inlet, near the mouth of the Painkalac Creek or at the more open beach site at Fairhaven. Fairhaven proponents won the day and the club began its service to the community located on the magnificent stretch of beach. The first Bronze Medallion squad was formed and went through their training to become qualified early in 1958. This enabled the newly formed club to become affiliated with the State and National bodies and official beach patrols to commence. Earlier beach supervision had its beginnings from a small, galvanised iron shed in the sand dunes where basic surf life saving gear had been stored for years. The shed and the club’s first reel had been provided years earlier by a family in memory of their daughter Amy Patterson, a young school teacher who had lost her life at the Fairhaven beach in 1937. The “Amy Patterson” reel had been purchased by the family from the West St Kilda Life Saving Club and is still a prized piece of club memorabilia. Throughout the formative period Fairhaven was strongly led by the George Nutbean who was Club President for ten years. George went on to become President of Victorian State Centre (1970 – 74). Fairhaven Surf Life Saving Club is very proud of the community service that it provides and recognises the enormous contribution of many people throughout the years since 1957. read more