Overall comp. winner ($100): East Gippsland Special School for 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' (Flotsam and Jetsam).
It won because it showed that, in the flotsam and jetsam that can be found in the ocean and LakeTyers there are many wonderful things that nature produces. But we also see a lot of rubbish and fishing gear that harms our native animals and marine life.

Art category:
1st prize ($50) for 'Seagrass', East Gippsland Special School
2nd Prize to 'Happy at the Beach'  by Bastion Hickson (East Gippsland Special School) for
1st Prize Grade 4-6 level, ($50) to Jemma & Barbara Wilkinson, Boris Bryant (Nowa Nowa Primary School) for 'Lake Tyers Poster Story'.
1st Prize, Prep.-grade 3 level ($50), to Charli Leadbeater (Toorloo Primary School) for 'Box Jellyfish'
2nd Prize, Prep. - grade 3 level, to Chloe Leadbeater (Toorloo Primary School) for 'Red-back Spider'

Creative Writing category
1st Prize ($50) to Dakota Webster (Nowa Nowa Primary School) for 'Nowa Nowa's Yellow Wattle' Poem
2nd Prize to Charlotte Cox (Glenvale School) for 'Josie's Dream' essay

Photography category
1st Prize, Secondary level ($50), to Fleur Hocking (Glenvale School) for 'Footsteps in the Sand'
2nd Prize, Secondary level to Darcy Plant (Nagle College) for 'Stormy Ocean shore'
1st Prize, Grade 4-6 level ($50), to Andie McCullagh for 'Ocean Shell'

Congratulations from us at the www.laketyewrsbeach.net.au site to all those who participated in this wonderful competition as images and stories are basically what make up good web pages, and people who can communicate with language and images will always be heard with these skills.  Power to the photograph, the paintbrush and the pen!!!