CARLY Flood is not one to let moss grow under her feet as she commences her year-long reign as Miss Coolangatta Surf Girl.

As Miss Coolangatta Surf Girl, Miss Flood’s prime objective will be to raise vital funds for Coolangatta Surf Life Saving Club.

She kicks off her fundraising activities in Brisbane this week, where she will pilot the Queensland Surf Life Saving entry in the seventh annual Brisbane Billycart Championships at Carindale Recreation Reserve.

As well as steering the billycart down the grass track in one of the many races on the program, Miss Flood and a group of her cohorts will man the Coolangatta SLSC stall, where they’ll be raising money by pouring thousands of Lifesaver lollies into a large jar and charging people to guess how many are in there.

Miss Flood will represent Cooly SLSC in the Jupiters Summer Surf Girl competition, which will be judged next May and announced at a gala ball at Jupiters on May 12.

Jupiters Summer Surf Girl is first and foremost a development program which seeks to engage female members of the surf lifesaving movement to develop their skills and experience for their future careers in and outside of surf lifesaving.

Miss Flood is thrilled to be appointed the club’s entrant in Jupiters Summer Surf Girl.

“This provides me with an ideal opportunity to raise invaluable funds for the club to put towards equipment and enable us to continue the great job we do on the beach every summer,” Miss Flood said.

Coolangatta Beach has been an integral part Miss Flood’s life since she was a toddler when she accompanied her father Ron and the rest of the family to the beach and played in the sand while he was on patrol.

She has made the usual progression through the ranks from nipper to gaining her bronze medallion and becoming a regular member of the beach patrols.

The Jupiters Summer Surf Girl competition commenced in 1964.

Since then the SLSC entrants have raised over $11.5 million for their respective clubs.

Picnic Bay SLSC (Townsville) member, Anika Wright, set the highest individual total on record last year, raising a mind-boggling $120,981.24.