We're slowly making our way to visit Jean's sister in Weipa (and play bowls). Tuesday we arrived at the tiny town of South Johnstone in the middle of a Sugar mill.
ARRIVAL TUESDAY
Someone down south gave Mal a number for Shane the President of South Johnstone Bowling Club. He came down to set us up in our caravan. He told us he's been President 30 to 40 years!
We're parked next door to the club with power and water.
And adjacent to a Sugar plantation!
It's a pleasant little clubhouse.
With a nice, wide, covered verandah.
There's one synthetic green.
The J. Hing Memorial Green with Sugar sprouting behind.
It's named after Jimmy 'Boom boom' Hing who was the first President and Greenkeeper.
The club has permanent shades. Some a little worse for wear.
Later in the day some of the guys came to roll up. We came inside for beers. It was Stephen, Shane, Vera, Mal, Rooster and Kiwi. They told us they have practice on Friday so we said we'd stay for that.
FRIDAY
It's practice night at South Johnstone. We played Pairs together.
Against Kiwi and Di.
Jean put a good one in first end.
We were down four then Jean put in a weighted shot to get us back to down one. However most of our bowls were on the bank!
We lost. They were too good for us but we had a lot of fun. We came inside for drinks.
Shane told us Bruno was a local bowler who played in the Commonwealth Games at Edmonton.
The club only has five ladies now but in the old days it was very strong.
Tomorrow South Johnstone plays at Babinda in Pennant. If they win they go into the grand final!
Comments