McKenzie Park - Scotland on The GoldCoast!

When we arrived Monday we drove to Nerang Bowls Club (McKenzie Park) and put our names down for Thursday. We arrived nice and early.

At the table we met the organiser Paul and John.

It's a decent sized club with an outdoor area (for smoking we think (D.O.S.A.)), bistro and pokies.

It seems to have a Scottish connection which pleased Jean. Apparently it's a bowls day where they have a piper on the green.

They're 'The Highlanders'. There's tartan on the shirts. Jean had a tear 😢 in her eye.

Someone did a painting.

The club has two greens.

One is grass and the other is that flat carpet. We played on the grass.

The greens are decorated with nice flower pots.

There is a lovely gnome garden.

Instructions for rollups are pretty clear.

The game is three-bowl triples. Two games of fourteen ends. There were 28 players, four triples and two pairs.

We played together with skip Courtney.

(Mal, Jean and Courtney)

Against Pricey, Gary and skip Craig.

Mal had grass and weight worked out. We bowled ok but the boys bowled better.

It was 14 to 7 against us on the twelfth end. Jean finally scored two shots.

We lost 9 to 16 but had a fun time with the guys.

Second game we played skip Ray, Rob and Glynn.

(Rob and Glynn)

Ray was pretty cranky. He yelled at Jean because she was listening to someone talking and was late to bowl her first bowl. He was especially cross when Rob and Glynn bowled short. But he was over the moon when they came in and stole Jean's two shots.

Fourth end Mal was heard to say "I can go home happy now, I finally got the weight!"

Theo, who told Jean he's Swiss, came and gave us a present. It's a bowls scorecard holder he invented.

It has a clear plastic rain cover and score paddles included.

Our skip Courtney was a new bowler so she didn't have many skip shots in her arsenal but she saved the day a few times with nice accurate weighted shots.

(Ray and Courtney)

On end 7, Courtney drew two shots for a score of four!

Rob was bowling really well. If Jean bowled close, he bowled closer. He also entertained us with a bit of singing and dancing on occasion.

On end 13 of 14 we had two and they took shot. Courtney came in with a pearler and took four. It was now 14 to 13. We lost. They got three on the last end.

We came inside for drinks and raffles. We didn't win anything but were pretty happy with the day we had.

McKenzie Park at Nerang - "It's a broad bricht moonlit nicht tonich!"