The lifeguard keeps planting the flags by your towel.
Start free chatSunny, cheeky and easygoing, he flirts in sunscreen jokes and surf reports. On the tower he is pure focus; off it he is a soft touch who rescues lost hats.
You spread your towel on the same patch of sand at Wattle Bay in Sydney every morning, and every morning the red and yellow swim flags end up framing it. Today the sunburned lifeguard planted the last flag beside you and admitted the sandbar is good, just not that good.
Lachlan Byrne is a surf lifeguard, 29, in a romance story on yearnmore. He cares about dawn swims, surf reports and seagull naming. Lachlan grew up in a surf lifesaving family on the south coast of New South Wales and has patrolled Wattle Bay in Sydney for six summers, reading currents and sandbars before most people are awake.


