Progress at Bribie Island

DABI NEWS TO 6 OCTOBER 2010

2010-10-05T21:20:00.000-07:00

DRAGONS ABREAST BRIBIE ISLAND has come a long way since we launched our boat "Spirit of Bribie" on 3May 2009.
Our membership has grown and 5 members travelled to Peterborough this year for the international festival at Peterborough.
We have also taken part in the inaugural DAA regatta at Kawana and have joined with Redcliffe Pink Snapdragons to paddle away when we could not raise a full team.
Some of DABI members will be joining them also for Chinese New Year paddling next Feb. in Sydney.
Over 20 of us are travelling to St.George this weekend to take part in their River Festival, and will have some photos to share on our return next week.
We have enjoyed support from various groups on the Island and attached is a photo of members receiving a cheque from QUATTRO, a group of artists at Bribie.

"Spirit of Bribie" Blessing

2009-05-06T00:21:00.000-07:00

May 3 at Brennan Park on Bribie Island was the setting for the blessing of Dragons Abreast Bribie Island's Dragonboat "Spirit of Bribie"

We intended to paddle down the Pumicestone Passage from the boatramp to the Park, but the weather was too windy with whitecaps on the water so we had to have our blessing on land in the park.

This was performed by The Very Reverend Raymond Smith who blessed the boat and crew, and then Sifu Brett Fenton performed the ceremony of opening the Dragon's eyes with State Member for Pumicestone Carryn Sullivan, President of the Zonta Club of Caboolture Mrs. Sue Droughton, President of the Rotary Club of Bribie Island Mr. Roger Platt and myself dotting eyes and ears on the Dragonhead.

Mrs. Hazel Cowburn was then asked to sign the boat which proudly sports the "Spirit of Bribie" emblem which she designed for us along with the "Dragon" logo on our shirts.

Sifu Brett also asked for a blessing of the ocean and then the "Lion Dancers" performed for DABI and their honoured guests and the audience.

Jo. Parry and Lexie warren of DAA attended the ceremony as did some members of survivor clubs from Redcliffe,Currumbin, & Sunshine Coast.

We send a big "Thank-You" to all our supporters and are looking forward to lots of enjoyable paddling in this beautiful part of Australia.

Photos from First paddle on Pumicestone Passage Bribie Island March 14.

2009-03-18T00:34:00.000-07:00

Sat. March 14 at mid-day a mixture of "Pink Snapdragons" from Redcliffe and "Pinkaboutit" of Bribie Island enjoyed the first paddle in the new DABI Dragonboat "Spirit of Bribie" on Pumicestone Passage.

Our new dark pink shirts with DAA logo one side front, Rotary logo other side front and our lovely big Dragon on the back were admired by all.

Lyn Van Buerle can be seen in the front with her camera in the second photo and she was there to cheer us on and heard some interesting remarks from the local fishermen who were fishing from the bank near us. They seemed to think we were not doing too badly!

Thanks to the sweeps from Redcliffe who gave up their time to help us.

Dawn

Bribie Dragonboat is "On The Water"

2009-03-16T00:56:00.000-07:00

March 15 DABI welcomed some members from "Pink Snapdragons" Redcliffe including Del Martin, sweep and Marla Harris, sweep in training, to Sandstone Point where our new Dragonboat is housed in the enclosure at the Navel Cadet Centre "T.S.Koopa"

Roger, husband of Lorraine Martin has constructed a trolley to transport our boat to Pumicestone Passage, and resplendant in our new dark pink shirts with Dragon Logo, we placed it in the water.

Some of our members have not paddled before and they all agreed that Dragonboat paddling is for them. We also gained a new member who was brought along to try but joined straight away.

Sat. 21 March the some of the Brisbane girls are visiting us for another training paddle.

Our Big launch and "Blessing the Boat" will be on May 3 at 8A.M. at Brennan Park, Bribie Island and we welcome all who wish to attend and help celebrate with us.

Bribie Island has Dragonboat

2009-02-13T15:57:00.000-08:00

Bribie's beautiful new Dragonboat arrived, after a lot of trauma, and thanks to Blair who gave his services to transport it up from Currumbin, on Saturday 24 January.

We are still waiting for our paddle delivery[they have been delayed because of Xmas backlog], and the "Zonta" logo will be affixed next week, as it was "Zonta" Club of Caboolture who donated the money for us to buy the boat.

We also have "Rotary" club of Bribie supporting us and the "Lions" who gave us a site at the Australia Day Markets here, which enabled us to raise awareness of Dragons Abreast Bribie Island, and hopefully attract more breast cancer survivor members.

A couple of the husbands have helped assemble the parts of the boat which needed to be affixed, and Roger is making a trolley for us to transport the boat to the water.

It seems a long time getting on the water, but we cannot launch without these things.

However, our clubs in the vacinity will help us, as we do not have a sweep, coach or many experienced paddlers.

We hope to organize a BIG launch, with other clubs invited, newspapers notified, and a "Dragonmaster" to open the Dragon's eyes and hopefully bring up his "Lion" Dancers for the event.

I enjoyed CNY as usual, and welcomed to opportunity to attend the meetings which were arranged for us. Thank you to all concerned.

Dawn

Pictures

2008-10-25T22:10:00.000-07:00

New pictures for DABI

Photos of Bribie Regatta

2008-10-16T18:23:00.000-07:00

Dragon Smiles At Bribie Island

2008-10-16T02:32:00.000-07:00

DABI enjoyed a beautiful sunny day for the get together at Banksia Beach on Sept. 28.

We had 4 visiting teams and they transported their boats up for us to enjoy a hitout on Pumicestone Passage.

We received support from the local Councillor Gary Parsons who ironed out some unforseen problems for us, and the Bribie Lions Club helped us with extra BBQ's and tents .

Zonta ladies from Caboolture attended and made the announcement that they will donate $8000 to DABI to purchase our boat and some of them paddled for the first time , thoroughly enjoying the experience.

The visitors all agreed that Bribie is a beautiful spot to have a dragonboat breast cancer survivor team and wished us well, and also thanked us for the day.

We were also very grateful to them , both for their company and for all the trouble of bringing up the boats.

On the Saturday night we went to the Bribie Hotel for dinner and had over 60 celebrating.

We have lots of functions planned for the next few weeks as Bribie Rotary Club has organised a premier showing of "Australia" the movie and has included us in this special event. They have also indicated they would like to help us with our endeavours to get started and have asked us to provide prices to of the equipment we will need.

Pacific Harbour Golf and Country Club is organising a golf day on Oct. 26 with proceeds to DABI.

Bribie Hotel is holding Melbourne Cup day luncheon with $5 from every ticket to come to us.

Some of the new DABI members who have not paddled before have been going to Sunshine Coast and Redcliffe where they have been welcomed by those tems to start learning while we are waiting for our boat.

There is also a "Blessing the Surf" ceremony combined with a Fijiian Lovo and a Field of Women planned for Oct. 25 at Woorim Beach on Bribie Island.

Progress for DABI

2008-09-18T23:31:00.000-07:00

We are working to make our new DABI a success and have had some support from the local clubs and the media.
Lexie Warren and I have been the guest at both Zonta Caboolture and Rotary Bribie Island.
We were warmly received at both clubs and especially as at Rotary, two of the Rotary wives are currently undergoing their breast cancer treatment.
We have been lead to believe that we will soon have some support from them with regards to us "Getting on the water" in Pumicestone Passage.
Sunday Sep.28 we have organised an interclub "get together" with Currumbin, Redcliffe, Brisbane, Sunshine Coast as well as our new DABI.
We are hoping for 3 of the clubs to bring boast and we will launch them at Banksia Beach boatramp, and, after some "fun" paddles we will BBQ in Col. Fisher Park. The council have given us a permit to use this area from 9A.M., when the tide will be high, and 4P.M. and I expect everyone will be very tired by then.
Prior to this, on Sat 27 Sep. we are dining at the Bribie Island Hotel with tables decorated in pink with "Pink Lady" decorations. We will have about 60 pink paddlers and their partners for this.
Dawn Worley

Dragon Approaches Bribie Island

2008-08-30T23:25:00.000-07:00

DABI has 21 members at present and our registration has been accepted by QDBF.
Some of the group who had never paddled before visited the "come and try" day held at Lake Samsonvale a week ago hosted by Redcliffe Red Dragons. They enjoyed the day and we can't wait to get our boat to get "Pink" on the water here.
However we won't have to wait too long as we are hosting a "fun"day on Sept.28 at Banksia Beach when Currumbin "Beyond Survival", Sunshine Coast "Tittytittybangbang", Redcliffe "Pink Snapdragons" and Brisbane "Pinks" will join our new " Dragons Abreast Bribie Island"
We won't have a "Bribie Boat" but some of the clubs are bringing their boats up to paddle.
We are gaining recognition as it becomes know of our ambitions and we are starting to receive donations plus money we raise from markets and raffles etc.
Our president and I have joined Lexie Warren and presented our stories at a Zonta Caboolture dinner and we have been given an indication that they would like to help us.
We also have to speak at a Lions club dinner this week .
Our original President Cathie Gouldsbrough has had to step down after such a short time, as she and her family are going to Dubai to live,as husband, Nigel will work there.
So vice-president Lorraine Martin has taken over that role.
We will taking part in a "Field of Women" here on Oct. 25 which is being organized by Kay Ellis for BCNA at Woorim Beach.
Regards, Dawn Worley sec/co-ordinator DABI

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Progress

2008-06-19T22:06:00.000-07:00

We are gradually making progress with getting together B.C. survivors on and around Bribie Island to get "Pink" out there on Pumicestone Passage.
Last Wed. 18th. I hosted a morning tea and with the help of Cathie Gouldsbrough , Ann cousins,Lyn Van Buerle and some nice new supporters we had some fun with a raffle, lucky door prize and some nice food and raised our first donations for our new group.
Cathie and I have also had a photo and story in the local newspaper and we have received a few new contacts from this.