The bowls season in Canada is well past so my wife, Tish, and I spent a fortnight in Honolulu Hawaii where we could play some bowls at the Honolulu Lawn Bowling Club. It’s not our first visit, we discovered this club, the only one in the state, last time we went to our timeshare at the nearby Hilton Hawaiian Village. The club is just a 20-minute walk or a bus ride of a few minutes from where we were staying.
The club has retained all the good characteristics I wrote about on my first visit but with a refreshed cast of characters!
If you are in the area, check online for the hours they play and drop in for a few games. I have found no other place where you are adopted so quickly as part of the group. Bring a bowls towel or a club pin from your home club. They have places to display all the different locations their visitors hail from.
A unique (in my experience) detail of the playing paraphernalia is the construction of the rakes they use to gather the bowls. I have included a picture of one of them. The device has no wheels that can make divots in the playing surface. The construction is from PVC piping and PVC joints assembled to give the correct plow shape. Sliding on the green is enhanced with larger pieces of PVC pipe threaded onto the central area. There are PVC caps on the ends of the two arms of the device. The whole assembly is light. It slides easily and it has a good wide bowl-gathering opening.
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