We arrived at Campbell's Creek at 10:40 because the website said there was social bowls at 11. Alas, still on holidays.
As we arrived we saw a man walking out. He got a quizzical look on his face when he saw us. We rolled down the window and told him about our trip. His face brightened and he said "I'll roll up with you". His name was Chris. He's been bowling about four years.
We played the Scrounge game we learnt at Rochester.
There was one green - carpet. Chris said it's been down seven years. It was quite nice. Similar pace to Weston Creek (fast-15 seconds) but much nicer.
A different surface. One end you had to take 1.5 times usual grass. The other end a bit over.
Chris got a jump on us (being familiar with the green) but Jean soon worked it out. We played longer ends but the pace was similar to Jean's short ends so she kept scoring in the top four and jumped ahead.
Mal had some trouble pulling up his fives so got quite behind but made a comeback around end seven. Not enough though, the final score was Chris 23, Jean 33, Mal 21 after the obligatory Scrounge ten ends.
We were impressed with the amount of advertising the club was able to get. Chris said during the floods the green was 20cm under water from the creek just behind. Volunteers took ages to get rid of the mud dumped.
Campbell's Creek - fun on the carpet.
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