With two hours of formal Australia Day celebrations done and dusted by 10am, it was time to hit the pool.
At least two dozen of the town’s younger citizens had come out for the party when the Times visited, keeping cool with water relays and playing ‘rob the nest.’
At around 4pm, this reporter had his curious first experience of yabby racing at the Terminus Hotel, which a spectator cheerfully described as “bogan.”
Pub goers spent hundreds of dollars on their racers, with the prize pool reaching quadruple digits for the bidder . . .
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