Thursday, May 10, 2007
Golf - Coconut Grove Style
We decided we'd try and get away for a couple of days (see next blog) and the hotel we stayed at had a golf course. Since my clubs were half way around the world, I didn't golf, nor did anyone else - the course actually is probably one of the better ones even though there is no irrigation or much in the way of mowing machines (machetes probably). I did think a couple of pictures might be interesting. Above is one of the greens with a tree that is planted right in the middle of it - it also drops papaya fruit which are about the size of a plum - and the tree branches shade almost all of the green to you would almost have to run any approach shot up and under the branches. Being that we are right on the ocean, the sand trap has real beach sand in it.
Hole number three or four (hard to tell unless walk around, it highlighted by a water hazard which is also the watering hole for the local vultures - while they aren't quite as large as the desert variety, they are still very ugly looking and I'm not certain I'd want to particularly try and play through them - they are just a little larger than a good sized turkey, but ugly as sin. You can tell by the "greenness" of the green that they don't get a lot of rain during the non rainy season.# posted by Ghana Gazette @ 8:03 AM 
