We arrived in Chinchilla from Goondiwindi about midday. We set up the van, did the washing and hung it out then followed the instructions from Wazza in reception to the Chinchilla Bowls Club.
When we arrived we met Julie who used to be the club Secretary. Julie was a font of information about Chinchilla and the club. She got us a mat and jacks for our rollup.
There were some folks on the green when we got there.
Jean asked Julie if it was a final. She said "No, just social bowls." Jean queried this because the sign didn't say social on a Monday.
Julie said "We play every public holiday." Good to know!
Julie introduced us to Annette (who works at our caravan park) and Barry. We told them all about our trip and discussed our heading to Hervey Bay.
(Julie, Annette and Barry)
Julie's husband Peter left the game and came over and introduced himself.
The club has two nice grass greens.
We played on the one out the back.
It's the Norman Emmerson Green.
It has a fancy sign which was donated by past Presidents of Condamine Bowls.
It has cute little flags at each corner.
We really liked the scoreboards.
Jean quizzed Julie about the 'Cactoblasters'. Julie explained that it comes from the Cactoblastus moth which got rid of the prickly pear infestation decades ago .She explained that when they went away to events they liked that other teams had names and nice shirts. The club wanted that.
They thought about the Watermelons, because Chinchilla is the watermelon capital of Australia - they didn't like that idea. Julie said what about an insect - the Cactoblaster. She found a design and they put it on their shirt. Now they are the Cactoblasters!
The green was really fast. We did OK, we had some tight heads
but a few went in the ditch.
Jean mostly kept Mal to one shot.
Chinchilla - we had a (cacto) blast!
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