Cobar - a rollup in the Outback

Today is the first day of our trek to Hervey Bay for Mal's family reunion on 14th April. From here on in we stay only a day or two in places. Today it's Cobar NSW. We stopped in at the bowling club for a rollup.

As we arrived there were three blokes sitting having a smoke, a beer and a chat. They were Greg, Gary and Mick. Jean asked if they were bowlers, they were. She told them about our trip and that we were there for a rollup. They showed us the mats and Jacks and wished us a good time.

Mal came up and started to chat with Greg about Malua Bay on the NSW south coast - he's from there and told us we must go and see the new club. Of course Mal used to live in The Bay so he knows it well. Greg showed us photos of when the Malua Bay Bowling Club burnt down.

The club has two nice grass greens.

We rolled on the one by the carpark.

It's the Jimmy Bruce Green.

We were pleased to see scoreboards - we haven't seen them at any club in Victoria.

Mal was hanging for a roll.

It's been a few days now, Jean has forgotten how to bowl!

Mal kept getting shot or taking Jean out.

The grass was very nice to roll on. It looked good. We were impressed that a club in The Outback would have such nice greens - especially in a Golf club. A nice change from the synthetics we've had in Victoria.

Mal got four shots. Jean tried to take them out but to no avail.

As we were leaving we met the GM Jason who seemed interested. The boys must have told him about our trip. He asked how we liked the green - we gave him a good report.

The boys asked how we went. Mal grinned "I won!". Jean said "As if that's going in the blog!"

Cobar - nice greens for an outback town!