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Paddlers for Life Windermere held their traditional 'eye-dotting' ceremony to awaken our dragons This is our nineteenth season and we welcomed family members of one of our supporter paddlers, Eunice, who has been with the team for most of that time. They dotted the eyes of our dragons on a day that also celebrates the role of supporter members. Also visiting were relatives of Heather who made a generous bequest that has purchased paddles for team members to use.
We had a wonderful paddling session in glorious conditions on Windermere with Paddlers for Life Windermere and Keni from Three River Serpents 3RS coaching us. Some paddlers were in preparation for the International Festival in France in August.
Thank you for having me this weekend I thoroughly enjoyed paddling with you and had some great coaching from Keni! ❤️
We had a great day at the start of this nineteenth season with Paddlers for Life Windermere. Some new members paddled and the paddlers going to the international participatory festival in France started their training for the event.
Wonderful day 🌸🐉
Paddlers for Life Windermere are tantalisingly close to the team's return to paddling our dragon boats and outrigger canoe. The strong wind gusts stopped us from paddling today but the dragon boats, V6 outrigger and support boat are ready to go and everyone has refreshed training for our paddling day routines. We will soon be on the water again.
Great day today. Lovely to see everyone again, and to welcome lots of Newbies. 🐉🌸😁
A great turnout of paddlers on a gorgeous Windermere day to make sure our dragon boats, V6 outrigger, pontoon and equipment are all ready for our season of paddling that starts on Sunday with our 'All Hands on Deck' day to familiarise everyone with boat preparation and safety for a typical paddling day. What wonderful organisation and skills members of Paddlers for Life Windermere bring to make sure our activities run smoothly and efficiently.
Lovely day for it ladies and gents 💕💕💕
Teamwork makes the dream work & what fabulous weather you had as well ….🥰
Some members of Paddlers for Life Windermere went to Hollingworth Lake Country Park near Littleborough (Rochdale) for some outreach work. Their watersports centre has a bell boat which has a similar paddling style to a dragon boat and it is very stable as it is twin hulled.
The hope is to encourage the development of breast cancer survivor paddling at the venue. Anyone interested in developing a breast cancer team would be able to use the bell boat to promote interest and give experience before committing to raising funds for a dragon boat.
Many thanks to Dawn at Panda Paramedic for a wonderful First Aid training session. Paddlers for Life Windermere wanted training best suited to our water based dragon boat paddling activities for breast cancer survivors and this training was spot on.
We covered 'cold water shock' and hypothermia and then some excellent practical training on CPR, use of defribilators and adrenaline injectors pens for anaphylaxis. We also covered choking and practical techniques to clear blocked airways.
The opportunity to practice procedures and get experience based clarification through questions was really helpful. Dawn's confidence building, calm and friendly approach meant that members came away feeling completely reassured that we had the skills to intervene and support someone who might need our help.
This was another step on the way to prepare for our new paddling season that starts in April.
This is a good time to come and join us. Our season start often has new members you can paddle with alongside and our more experienced paddlers are getting back into familiar paddling routines. Use any of our contact information or message us.
Hello, do you still have spaces for people from Lancaster? 😊
Paddlers for Life Windermere wish a very Happy Chinese New Year to fellow paddlers across the world. Here in the UK we are looking forward to starting our nineteenth season of paddling here on Windermere.
Well done girls and a Happy New Year to you all.