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Rained out at Canton Beach
We drove up from Mooney Mooney to the Central Coast for a few days. Before getting to our caravan park we stopped in at Canton Beach...
Jean Mc
May 151 min read
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Rolled up alone at Mooney Mooney
Jean's been chatting for a while with Liz from Mooney Mooney after she posted on their Facebook page. Liz has been so helpful finding...
Jean Mc
May 142 min read
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Little visit to Dangar Island
We're staying at Mooney Mooney so decided to take a quick ferry ride to Dangar Island. With no cars on the island we were surprised it...
Jean Mc
May 131 min read
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Lovely people at Mona Vale
We drove on Sunday to Pittwater and Avalon bowling clubs to have a look. They were both locked up so we couldn't roll up. We then...
Jean Mc
May 121 min read
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Friendly people at Newport
We're still in Sydney. We've done a couple of clubs on the Northern Beaches. Today we're off to Newport for a Saturday afternoon game....
Jean Mc
May 101 min read
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Three-bowl Pairs at Belrose
We weren't going to do Sydney for a couple of years but we stopped in at Narrabeen for a couple of days on our way up north. Today we...
Jean Mc
May 91 min read
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Mal's back - at Engadine
So we're back on our trip after eight weeks' gap visiting kids, grandkids and sisters. After a lot of argy bargy we managed to get a...
Jean Mc
May 71 min read
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Home to Weston Creek
It's Jean's turn now. We've had to stay in Canberra a few more weeks while we wait for our new caravan fridge to arrive. We decided to...
Jean Mc
Apr 81 min read
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Home to Vikings
We're at home for a while - enjoying our grandkids - which is why we haven't posted much. Today we came to Mal's club - Tuggeranong...
Jean Mc
Apr 21 min read
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Farewell Victoria in Mansfield
Today is our last day in Victoria. We've stopped in at Mansfield for an early game before we head home up the Hume Highway. It's another...
Jean Mc
Mar 182 min read
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Weekend tournament at Alexandra
We came to Alexandra Bowls Club on spec, before heading to our accommodation, to see if they had Thursday social bowls on today. They...
Jean Mc
Mar 164 min read
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Under Narre Warren Pantherdome
When we were at Berwick on Saturday Marshy rang Foxy from Narre Warren to get our names down for Wednesday bowls. It's a proud club....
Jean Mc
Mar 121 min read
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Cranbourne Pennant Finals
We dropped in to Cranbourne on Sunday. There was nobody around. Jean found a number for Secretary Karen who told us there's no social...
Jean Mc
Mar 112 min read
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Nice folks at Belvedere
Jean has been in touch with Belvedere via Messenger. We couldn't make it on their social bowls day so turned up on spec on a Monday to...
Jean Mc
Mar 101 min read
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Played Fours at Berwick
We're camping in Berwick. We saw on their website that outside Pennant season there's bowls at Berwick Bowls Club on Saturday. We...
Jean Mc
Mar 81 min read
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Bowled at happy Chelsea
We left Somerville yesterday and arrived in Berwick. Today we've driven 40 minutes to Chelsea on the coast for a game of Triples. It's...
Jean Mc
Mar 71 min read
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A few days at Somerville
We saw Somerville play in the Mid-week Pennant Finals in Karingal last week. A couple of the guys told Jean about Thursday social...
Jean Mc
Mar 62 min read
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Mt Eliza Wednesday Triples
We're camped at Somerville Bowls Club so today we drove 20 minutes to Mt Eliza to get a game of Triples. Mt Eliza had two Mid-week...
Jean Mc
Mar 52 min read
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All retired at Village Baxter
Village Baxter is a retirement Village with a bowling green. We rang and asked if we could play Tuesday and were welcomed...
Jean Mc
Mar 41 min read
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Nice outing at Mornington
This blog is about Mal and Jean's trip around Australia to visit every bowling club. Each post is about one club.
Jean Mc
Mar 31 min read
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