Bowls by the river at Victoria Park

Jean found out on Messenger that Victoria Park has bowls on Saturday - our second-last day in Rockhampton.

MONDAY

We dropped in to get our names down for a game on Saturday.

We met Garry the President who was mowing. Tony at Rockhampton told us he's a huge Parramatta fan which pleased Mal no end.

It's a small but long clubhouse with Lambo's bar taking pride of place.

We're sure it's a peace sign - not the other way!

They've had some good Pennant results back in the good old days.

There are two grass greens.

The front green looks good.

It's the Gardener OBE Green.

The seats are donated.

SATURDAY

We came back on Saturday for our game. We stopped in at Gracemere on the way to get our names down for tomorrow. We saw some Victoria Park guys playing there.

Apparently they're 'Victoria Park by the River'.

We came back and we met Mick the Selector who looked after the money. Jean was impressed with the curtains.

Then we met Ant - originally from Gippsland.

Barry wore a North Rockhampton shirt 👕. That club closed a couple of years ago.

Garry awarded Gordon a Veteran's badge because he turned 70.

We played triples. There were three games.

It was Skip Mal, Jean and Michael

Against Maureen, Kerry and Ant.

Mal knocked his own bowl up for two then did it again for three.

We'd won the first three ends then Jean got two and Michael consolidated.

They got four on us as we went in for smoko. We were one down.

Then we lost five ends in a row. Jean finally scored.

It wasn't enough. We all lost the plot after smoko. We lost by eight. Of course Mal had to buy a blue and gold club shirt 👕.

We scored some honey and passionfruit.

Victoria Park - can one have fun getting smashed?