Competition Entries

Caught an epic moment at the Coastie Kids Summer Festival activity? Upload your photo and you’re in the draw to win prizes!

From sandcastles to fishing fun (and everything in between), we want to see your best shots. Just add your entrant number, date, photo, and a short caption below. Share the fun. Show your skills. Score awesome prizes! ✨

A young boy wearing a black baseball cap, blue t-shirt, and shorts standing on a dock holding a fishing rod with a fish caught on the line, near a body of water with boats and a green hill in the background.

Hook It, Snap It, Send It! 🎣

Prizes for Longest Fish, Longest by Age, or the Just Right Bite!

Two boys fishing on a pier by the water, one holding a small fish, both smiling.

Longest Wharf-Caught Bait Fish 🪝

From the wharf to the winner’s board — who’ll reel in the longest bait fish?

Young girl playing and building a sandcastle on the beach, wearing purple rain boots, beige shorts, a white sweater with colorful pom-poms, and crouching next to a sandcastle.

Sandcastle Competition 🏰

Grab your buckets and let your imagination rise with the tide! Check out the rules and guidelines here

View of a sandy beach with calm ocean waves and a mostly cloudy sky with patches of blue.

Beach Clean up✌️

The Kaitiakitanga Values category is all about being a kaitiaki — a guardian of the land and sea. Kaitiakitanga means protecting our environment, keeping it clean, and making sure it stays beautiful for generations to come.

Pink fishing lure with a painted face, tangled in green and blue fishing nets.

Totally Nuts Catch 🥜

Hooked a shoe? A stick? Something wild? Reel it in — the weirder, the better!

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