Boomerangs and Cricket Balls Fly in Little Silver, Look Out!!
Local Australians gathered at Sickles Park on May 14th to enjoy food, cricket and boomerangs.
What happens when you gather a group of Australian ex-pats who long for their sunburnt country together? A day of cricket and hair-raising boomerang throwing of course. Little Silver residents may have noticed that Sickles Park was taken over on Saturday by just such a group. Nine families from the surrounding area brought their favorite Aussie fare and all the cricket equipment stowed in their garages. Sausage rolls, ANZAC biscuits and lamingtons were happily devoured before the baseball diamond was turned into a cricket pitch. Everyone got up to bat and it proved a great opportunity to have all the Australian-American kids have a go at the national sport. The real fun started when the boomerangs began to fly. The “throw them one at …