Port Fairy, Port Campbell and Warrnambool are awaiting directions from Lifesaving Victoria on whether they can and how they would run their junior programs this summer.

LSV has been in constant contact with all clubs in the state over the last month with a weekly meeting with their leaders delivering updates on how the coronavirus pandemic impacts the sport.

Apollo Bay has already cancelled its 2020-21 nippers program despite LSV not making a decision on the season.

Port Campbell president Scott McKenzie said his club was 'cautiously optimistic' about getting its nearly 150 nippers members into the water this summer.

"I'm optimistic at this stage as far as you can be but as we know being eight weeks out a lot of things can change," he said.

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"It all depends on what the restrictions are in two months time. Closer to that time we will have more specific information.

"There is different options they have developed and are at the ready. They can't pick an option right now for a situation in two months time.

"For our club we are little more fortunate with the ability to make the call quite close to the first nippers session as most of our members are locally based. It's not going to be hugely inconvenient for us.

"We will leave it as late as we need to to make the final decision for the club to safely run it and abide by the requirements that will be in place around nippers.

"We are still cautiously optimistic we can manage some form of nippers. It will obviously look different to other seasons."

Port Fairy SLC nipper coordinator Nicole Dwyer said East Beach would give the club flexibility to work around different possible requirements.

"I normally have a draft schedule presented to committee and what it would look like in these school holidays," she said.

"I try to fit 15 sessions in around cricket, basketball and little athletics and I haven't started yet as I am not sure what we can or can't do.

"There is different scenarios for 50, 100 or 150 kids in the one area of the beach but we are lucky at East as we have got quite a protected and safe beach.

"We can shift into little East and there are ways we can split groups up. We could make it work on our beach. It just depends on the scenario and what we are allowed to do."

Port Fairy has over 300 locally-based members and Dwyer said Melbourne-based members weren't going to have a massive effect on their membership.

McKenzie said "90 to 95 per cent" of the Port Campbell's membership was made up of kids from the surrounding areas.

Dwyer hoped some season for all of the clubs members, which also has surf boat teams and competition squads, could go ahead this summer.

"We are lucky things have opened up in regional areas and hopeful we can have a modified season," she said.

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