Torquay by the ocean

Jean went online last week to put our names down because we'd been told it was hard to get a game with so many members. We've been in Torquay a few days. Jean's cousin Jenny has driven us past a few times. Jean dropped in just to make sure. Our names were up top.

Jean walked in the door and Gary said "You must be Jean. You are travelling around?" We arrived and met Helen, Gary and Jim in the office. They were doing the draw.

Before the game, Mal had a nice chat with Jim and Frank. Jim told us about when the Bunnings roof came off on the wind, went across the highway and landed on two houses.

Frank told us about their 'Shark of the Week' trophy. It's given to Pennant player each week for doing something (usually dumb).

All the seats are donated by club members.

The club has two greens. One grass green, a bit patchy,

and a nice eight-rink synthetic. They plan to build a new synthetic green adjacent to the park.

We played on the grass - was just a bit slow. Ran well. Check out the view!

Mal loved it.

We met Brett who told us the club has 1,000 members. They were Australian club of the year a few years ago. They had a movie 'Blinder' made here with Steve Bisley who played a game with Brett's bowls.

We played two-bowl triples. Two games of 13 ends. 10 points for a win and one point each end won. Mal skipped on rink 11. Jean led on rink 12 for Steve and skip Gary

against Rob, Bob and Terry.

Jean got bowls closish but the opposition got them closer. She often had bowls behind which Gary used well.

Mal played with Keith and Hazel

against John, Ryan and Roma

they lost and played game two against Jean's team. Jean thought they were going to have to do a nudie run. At one point they had five shots (when they needed a full count) Mal came in and drew shot. Jean didn't want to admit she was cross and proud at the same time. Mal won.

Afterwards we met Don, the oldest player in the club at 97.

Torquay - thanks for the view!