Our second stop on our trek to Hervey Bay is Bourke. We went for a rollup and were surprised by the facilities.
We went to the front desk and told the guy there about our trip and said we wanted a rollup. He got a mat and a jack for us, we said we wanted two jacks. He said he'd have to go out the back and get one. We said OK, we had to go and get our bowls bags. We looked at the nice fountain on the way out.
The club has two nice greens. One is grass, one is synthetic.
We met Ernie the synthetic green installer. He's just installed the new synthetic green. No club members have bowled on it yet. He said it was ready but we agreed the club President would likely be annoyed if the first people to bowl on it were visitors.
We decided to roll up on the grass.
It had lots of ant holes on it.
Mal was warned that, because it's Jean's 61st birthday - he's not allowed to take out her bowls! Jean went back inside to get the mat and jacks. Mal waited patiently.
She came out with a wide grin on her face. "Mal, they gave me a birthday present!" Mal got a non-birthday present. A nice new bowls cloth.
We loved the Bourke Bowling Club jack.
The club house is quite big and modern.
Jean recalled from her uni Sports Psychology course that when one practices, one should have a purpose. Jean decided today that she would practice taking Mal's bowls out. At first she didn't have any success.
Then she got a couple. At one point Mal was on the jack and Jean played weight. She put the kitty in the ditch. A woman walking by called "Great bowl there!"
That bucked Jean up. Mal started to give her some instruction on how to play weight. It didn't help much!
Still, she feels a little bit more confident now.
Bourke Bowling Club - nice birthday present for Jean.
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