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Wooden Eye!
The Wooden Eye Paddling group was formed in 2015 as part of our yearly trip to paddle in the Murray Marathon which is now called the Massive Murray Paddle.
Paddling in these events allows Team Wooden Eye to raise funds and awareness for important causes such as homelessness, therapy dogs for mental health and most recently the needs of our farmers.
Team Wooden Eye paddlers are passionate about the benefits of paddling for mental health and the benefits of working as a team to achieve goals.
Our paddling team members are from diverse backgrounds including a teacher, ex-policeman, fireman, an Exercise.Physiologist , a disability support worker, a farmer, an ADF member, tradies and a kayak tour guide.
It is not just our common interest in paddling that brings us together. All our members have worked in areas that require solid team work to help achieve goals whether it be in the police force, Navy , in the classroom , working in disabilities, on a footy field or on a building site.
All our Woodys have worked in areas where they have witnessed the power of human kindness and humanity when people are in need.
It is for this reason our paddling team are attracted to events such as the Clarence 100 and the Massive Murray Paddle each year, as these events foster community engagement. These paddling events encourage fundraising and support of initiatives that assist mental health in communities around the rivers we paddle on.
Being a Woody is more than being a paddler.
Paddling in these events allows Team Wooden Eye to raise funds and awareness for important causes such as homelessness, therapy dogs for mental health and most recently the needs of our farmers.
Team Wooden Eye paddlers are passionate about the benefits of paddling for mental health and the benefits of working as a team to achieve goals.
Our paddling team members are from diverse backgrounds including a teacher, ex-policeman, fireman, an Exercise.Physiologist , a disability support worker, a farmer, an ADF member, tradies and a kayak tour guide.
It is not just our common interest in paddling that brings us together. All our members have worked in areas that require solid team work to help achieve goals whether it be in the police force, Navy , in the classroom , working in disabilities, on a footy field or on a building site.
All our Woodys have worked in areas where they have witnessed the power of human kindness and humanity when people are in need.
It is for this reason our paddling team are attracted to events such as the Clarence 100 and the Massive Murray Paddle each year, as these events foster community engagement. These paddling events encourage fundraising and support of initiatives that assist mental health in communities around the rivers we paddle on.
Being a Woody is more than being a paddler.
- It is about team work and supporting one an another on and off the water.
- It is about phoning each other on the day of a paddle for a quick pep talk and a reminder about why we started paddling.
- It is about contacting each other randomly between paddles throughout the for a quick chat and checking on your mates.
- Being a Woody is about connecting to people who are fellow paddlers and volunteers at events and learning about why other people paddle.
- We encourage Woodys to make sure we all pay it forward at events. This may be helping a fellow paddler carry a boat and thanking those people who give their time to keep us safe on the waterways.
- Woodys are fond of pubs and places to celebrate our times together and love a good laugh after each paddle to help remind us why we are paddling.
- But most of all being a Woody is being grateful we can paddle and that we can witness and learn from all paddlers, from all crafts and all ages.
