Mostly a light hearted episode, Alf fessing up as he felt it was his fault the Surf Club lost Anderson's sponsorship, but he can't be doing that every year can he. It suddenly occurred to me Gerald, seeing as he is the accountant, would have known all along who it came from and maybe tipped Alf off so that is why he revealed all to Cash? He did swear Roo and John to secrecy even though John couldn't resist saying thanks to the generosity of Alf Stewart the awards ceremony were going ahead. Banjo did drop out in case people had forgotten due to his dad's bribes to certain committee members. We hadn't seen much of their training but obviously they all passed thanks to John training them so well of course.
Someone should have taken that spade off Xander to stop him digging that hole any deeper. Bad enough him not seeing Dana romantically just as a friend but to add he thought of her as a little sister - YIKES! Mali very wisely decided to leave him and Rose to a family discussion. I can see his point, he hasn't known Dana that long so doesn't want to go there and ruin what could be a good friendship if it doesn't work out. Dana can hardly avoid him for ever, lots of people have found they can't do that in such a small town. Glad he bit the bullet later and explained to her a lot better than he had before. We don't need any more neglected pets in the bay do we now - look at poor Buddy.
Seems Mali did pop in at Mac's but left when he found out what a foul mood she was in and we know why, but still no indication of where Tane is staying.
Then Tane finds the baby on the beach and what a cutie she was too. All soaps do that with babies if they aren't crying on cue. Just as well she 'did' otherwise she wouldn't have been found. It was in the afternoon wasn't it so not an early drop off and whoever it was could have been seen. She wasn't a new born that was for sure, which was confirmed at the hospital, she was about three months old. She was healthy, cared for so hadn't been neglected in any way, wrapped up in good clothes and had a toy with her so is well loved. Whether it's due to his culture not being able to envisage any Maori family doing that or a knee jerk reaction anyone would have Tane couldn't understand how anyone could do that. Harper, wearing her SW hat, could see why it could happen and maybe had met mums/dads who had done the same thing. They whoever they were had card for her for three months. Why though on a beach, why not at a hospital/doctor's surgery, a more public place? Did this 'they' know Summer Bay? I'm guessing the cops took the bag to check for any clues, take DNA etc. BB - beach baby seemed to like Tane so got good taste, she's a lovely little actress/actor already. I've never been a mum so I'm only guessing the fact she was sucking her fingers is because she's teething?