Coaching, Canada Day and Chinese visitors.

Coaching, Canada Day and Chinese visitors. Another busy day for Paddlers for Life Windermere. Everyone pitched in to ensure another successful day of paddling. Keni coached a morning session with regular paddlers with Jill and Lesley honing their helming skills.   Barbara helped everyone celebrate Canada Day ... More

Helm training.

Over several sessions members paddled the dragon boats while members learned the basic skills of helming a dragon boat. Training over two days gave opportunity to develop their skills. More
Paddlers on Todd Crag at the northern tip of Windermere. Low Wood, our paddling location, can be seen.

A walk to Todd Crag for a great view of where we paddle.

A walk to Todd Crag for a great view of where we paddle. Members walked up Todd Crag at the northern end of Windermere. They were celebrating how fortunate we are to paddle our dragon boats on Windermere in such glorious surroundings. As breast cancer survivor paddlers many members have faced the challenges of ... More

An important day in the calendar of Paddlers for Life Windermere, Eye Dotting.

The fith day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar is traditionally the time to 'dot the eyes' of the dragons to awaken their spirit. Ruth related the origins of this tradition and Judy, Sian and Chris dotted the eyes of Phyllis, Lucy and Mary as members looked on. Following traditions, buckwheat was thrown on to ... More

A great paddling day! 22nd. May 2017

Another fine day of paddling on Windermere with thanks to members doing all they do to make the paddling such a fantastic experience. More

Bag Pack Fundraiser

Bag Pack Fundraiser Vicky organised a bag packing session at Booths Supermarket in Windermere to publicise Paddlers for Life Windermere and raise some funds. Eunice, Pam, Maureen, Irene, Lesley and Ann helped and received a warm welcome from the staff at Booths. They raised a fantastic £396.30p. What an achievement! ... More

Community Networking, Dragons in May Day parade.

Community Networking May Day Parade Do you remember this dragon head puppet making session organised by Barbara with John Parkinson (a cancer survivor) at Upfront Gallery and Puppet Theatre near Penrith in 2012? Three of the completed dragons were painted by members. Barbara has been networking using the ... More

Training session with Lancaster University Confucious Society.

Training session with Lancaster University Confucious Society. Paddlers for Life Windermere were hosts to members of the Lancaster University Confucious Society. They have put together a team to participate in a dragon boat event with similar societies from other universities. The training session was postponed from ... More

First 2017 Paddle

First 2017 Paddle What a glorious and busy day for the first paddle of our tenth anniversary season. The weather was bright and sunny with Windermere looking calm and blue for the morning session. The newer paddlers got involved in dressing and launching Artemis Phyllis and Mary at Low Wood and following a ... More

‘All Hands on Deck’ Preparing to Paddle day.

'All Hands on Deck' Preparing to Paddle day. Thanks to everyone who organised these preparations to paddle in our tenth season. Thank you Roz for helping train newer members and reminding us all of the regular paddling routines. Everyone helped with your 'hands on' with the boats. Watch the pontoon being assembled by ... More