Kendra


 * The Spini**

Going to the Spinifex Hotel is a great way to get to know a diverse range of bushies. Amongst the regular crowd you will find yobbos, hoons, larrikins, ex stockmen, ringers, bogans, crooks, show ponies, plenty of ockers and the odd one pot screamer. If you are new to town you could cut the air with a knife as you enter – the mob turning to check you out and categorize you. A bloke will always buy a new sheila a drink – perhaps hoping it is an opener or perhaps just to show some country hospitality. Conversation at the bar could be about anything from cutting sown a tall poppy or two – to who has just “gone troppo”. The phone will ring as someone’s missus is trying to get him home. If you let the missus know he is there then you are a dead set dobber. Usually as the day goes on the regulars get charged, the pool sharks get cocky and the bundy starts to flow. When ringers are in town the bundy creates legless deros and the fights break out. Being at the Spini is one of the best ways to organise home repairs there is always a sparky or chippy about. If you want freight moved there is always a truckie or two. If you are a dole bludger it’s a good place for a meal, airconditioning or picking up cash work as an offsider. The attire ranges from stubbies, double pluggers and tanktops to evening wear of strides and a polo with boots. Ringers wear levi’s or wranglers, pearl button cowdy shirts, belt buckles won as rodeo trophies and cowboy boots. The Akubra gives away you rank on the station. It is a good place for a battler to have a drink and a meal. ON Boxing day the annual Boxing day sports is held. This is a day when the pub is full of anklebiters, mums and dads. The sports range from cockroach racing, crab racing, stubby sipping with a baby bottle teat, lemon drop, watermelon seed spitting to jelly eating and many more. It is a fun day for all the family.