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We want to help YOU celebrate YOUR relationship with our seas and beaches! Upload your favourite seaside photograph, tell us your best beach memories and let us know how you think the beaches and seas have changed in your lifetime. Please click here to upload your memories, photos and opinions, and to look at some of the amazing and moving accounts from other sea lovers!
Beachwatch Big Weekend 2012 photo competition
The competition is now closed. Thank you to everyone who took part. See the winning entries below and click on the pictures to see them on facebook.
Congratulations to
1st prize: Sue Daly, Channel Islands |
1st prize- ‘Adrenalin Cocktail’ adventure weekend with Preseli Venture. |
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2nd prize: Robyn Godfrey, Swansea |
2nd prize - £250 Debenhams voucher |
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3rd prize: Deborah Wargate, Suffolk |
3rd prize - £50 M&S voucher |
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The competition is now closed but this is what you could have done, so be sure to sign up to take part next year!
If you are taking part in this year's Beachwatch Big Weekend you can enter our fantastic photo competition. All you have to do is upload a photo from your Beachwatch Big Weekend 2012 event.
It can be as weird and wonderful as you like, we'd love to see pictures of your unusual items that you collected from the beach.
The competition opens on the 14th September and closes on the 30th October 12am, photos uploaded before or after these dates will not be entered in the competition but you can always upload photos in the meantime for all to see.
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