Gippsland Waratahs DA

21/06/2026

Winter Soltice Paddle on the Mitchell River on a sunny winter's day! The sunshine helped. Training hard for the coming trip to France in August. Leonie coached, ensuring the endurance and fitness will get us through.

Twenty minutes non stop, plus 500 meter races, and then intervals - Hope we didn’t put Janine,our new Dragon Pass member, off.

Think morning tea might have helped.

Two of our crazy intrepid members jumped into the water at Lakes Entrance at 7 am as part of the East Gippsland Winter Festival, along with 200 others. After the initial shock, the invigorating cold water, and hot porridge after, made it worth it. Training for the cold water in Loch Ness in September?

Yay, the days should start getting longer from now on.

21/06/2026

Winter Soltice Paddle on the Mitchell River on a sunny winter's day! The sunshine helped. Training hard for the coming trip to France in August. Leonie coached, ensuring the endurance and fitness will get us through.

Twenty minutes non stop, plus 500 meter races, and then intervals - Hope we didn’t put Janine,our new Dragon Pass member, off.

Think morning tea might have helped.

Two of our crazy intrepid members jumped into the water at Lakes Entrance at 7 am as part of the East Gippsland Winter Festival, along with 200 others. After the initial shock, the invigorating cold water, and hot porridge after, made it worth it. Training for the cold water in Loch Ness in September?

Yay, the days should start getting longer from now on.

09/06/2026

Our DAA team song 🎶 for France (tap on photo to listen)

Dragons Abreast Australia in France celebrates the heart of our DAA...

17/05/2026

What a fantastic day of dragonboat racing and fun at Footscray. Gippsland Waratahs teamed with DA Geelong Jugs in the Breast Cancer 20s race - for a 3rd place.

And we also raced in the 10s races with a little help from Pink Phoenix and Jugs. And we were not disgraced but gave everything. Congratulations Lyndall on your first regatta.

13/05/2026

Congratulations to our Coach Leonie Taylor, who is not only an avid dragon boat paddler, but also an accomplished golfer. Leonie was recently a winner of the Bairnsdale Golf Clubs A grade foursomes championships & made the local paper today. Well done Leonie ⛳️🐲💖⛳️🐲💖

01/05/2026

What a fun night - The Devil Wears Prada 2 - fundraiser for the DA Gippsland Waratahs at the Sun Cinema Bairnsdale. Six of our members are off to France in August and everyone got into the spirit of the French theme.
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Our amazing club catered for over 140 people.... loads of food and fun!
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And we launched our Safety Day video on the big screen prior to the feature movie.

We are so proud of our support of breast cancer survivors and research into finding a cure for this disease.... and also proving fun and fitness is great medicine.🤸🤸‍♂️🧘🏃‍♂️👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩💗💓💕

28/04/2026

How lucky are we? Every 4th Sunday we have to find somewhere else to train. What better place than Lake Entrance. We put the boat in at the North Arm and paddled up to the Wyanga Park Winery for lunch. A perfect day! And no, the sweeps didn't drink!

Will do it again and invite our DAA sisters.

27/04/2026

If you think you have missed out on tickets for "The Devil Wears Prada 2", don't worry! We have more tickets available - second cinema will be available too.

19/04/2026

Another stunning morning paddle on the beautiful Mitchell River. Today we enjoyed the company of visiting paddler Sonja from DA Tasmania, Hobart as a full crew paddled hard and enjoyed all the sights and sounds the Mitchell River has to offer.

Don’t forget our Devil Wears Prada 2 fundraising film night is less that 2 weeks away. Tickets are selling fast so scan the QR below to book your seats.