Cooloola Dragons Regatta - Tin Can Bay - 23 & 24 July 2011

Another fantastic weekend away in Tin Can Bay for the Cooloola Dragons Regatta, the first regatta of the season.  As usual there was a lot of fun and laughter whenever the Snapdragons are around!  Looking forward to next year already!  

We registered two Snapdragon teams this year,  a Survivor team for the "Pink" races and a Mixed "B" team.  It was so fantastic to be able to paddle as a sports team again with a mix of survivors and supporters.  Both teams had great races and fantastic times.

The Mixed team came a very close 2nd to DA Gold Coast (by only 0.46 seconds) in the Division "B" Plate Final and our awesome Survivor team made the Pink Grand Final against MBT and were just pipped at the post by only 0.50 of a second!

Training, training, training and we'll be 1st next time!!!

Dinner saturday night at the Country Club was enjoyed by all,  with a fierce pool comp finishing off the night.  But sunday night drinkies produced the most laughs (and surprises! shhhh what happens in TCB stays in TCB!!! hehehe).

The gorgeous "Mr Percival"

Do you think they like pink??? ;-)

Someone didn't sink any balls during this game.....we all know what the penalty is for that now!!

Our amazing Survivors Pink Team!

The very cool Mixed "B" Team

Go Snapdragons!

 

So Close!!! We'll get em next time!

Where's my lollies!!

 

The sneaky sandbar strikes again!  Luckily not our team this year!

 

Ah No......you two are NOT designing our next team uniform! ;-)

 

With many thanks to Grant Rasmussen and Lyn Grigg for the extra photos!

xoxo Jules

Snapdragons go Bowling! - 10th July

Bowling at "The Boo"!  Thanks Cheryl for organising a great fun day out at the Booroodabin Bowls Club at Newstead.  Morning Tea (surprise birthday cake for Joan AKA "Mum"), a spot of barefoot bowls (some serious, a lot not so serious!) and yummy lamb roast for lunch.  

Happy Birthday!!

Mmmmm Lunch!

That looks like a far too serious conversation!

Interesting technique Jane ;-)

My Winning Shot! The only one I had of the day...you can see i was very proud :)

Of course "Princess Lyn" had to go one better!!

 

I think we all agreed we need to do it again! When's the next one Cheryl? :)

xo Jules

Red Dragons Corporate Regatta - 2nd July

Congratulations to our fabulous Pink Snapdragons for winning Bronze at the Red Dragons Corporate Regatta last saturday!  
A few words from our coach about the day.....
"Congratulations to all the corporate regatta paddlers. What a fantastic result. Just to make the major final was a significant result and to run third against the more athletic and male dominated crews was awesome. I wished I was there to witness it, however I do have my spies and their comments were enough to fill me full of optimism for our future regattas with the National Breast Cancer regatta foremost in my mind.

Your boat captain Donna had this to say. “The team performed really well yesterday – it was great getting a medal for third place in the major final. The day reinforced to everyone what it is like to race as a crew with our fantastic camaraderie and support from other pinkies and bosom buddies such as Dani, Maz and Rhonda”.

A special thanks to Lyn Grigg for her role as Team Manager. Having someone there to take the pressure off the coach and boat captain pays dividends in the end. It must work, I wasn’t even needed!!!!.

Now the hard work starts. We have Tin Can Bay in 20 days time. Only 2 more Saturday trainings to fine tune our starts and race plans. Then we start on our training plan for the Nationals at Kawana in September.

Well done everyone”

Arthur

Go Pink Snapdragons!

Our new mascot Max

A beautiful day!