Here Is Our New Blog Design for Your New Amazon Golf Course
We are celebrating our 50th blog post by upgrading the blog design to a more powerful Thesis theme that is designed for better search engine optimization, and larger photos. In a month or two, a person google searching Amazon Golf, Amazon Golf Course, or Iquitos Golf will have a better chance of finding us instead of Amazon.com. Also, I think it is a cleaner more elegant look. This is not the finished version. We still have to add 10 photos, one of which will randomly load with the the blog each time, and a few other details.
Here are some recent photos from August 22, 2009, and the Saturday before, to share with you the continuing story of what we are trying to accomplish on the Amazon Golf Course.
Newly landscaped entrance to the Amazon Golf Course, with rows of hibiscus bushes, and new flower gardens on each side of the lane
Pull on in to the Amazon Golf Course, up the lane, through the rows of hibiscus bushes, between the two flower gardens, and follow the booming bushes, past the practice putting green, to the club house.
New flower garden to the left of the entrance, built three weeks, and planted two and a half weeks before this photo.
This is the new flower garden on the left side of the entrance to the Amazon Golf Course. We built and planted two nearly identical flower gardens on each side of the entrance. The flower garden on the right side is a week behind this one, and still needs a few plants, time, and growth to catch up with the first one.
New flower garden on the right side of the entrance to the Amazon Golf Course.
When completed the two flower gardens and the rows of hibiscus will count over 60 more blooming bushes toward the goal of 2,000 trees and blooming bushes landscaped at the Amazon Golf Course.
Another motocarro full of plants for the Amazon Golf Course.
More croutons and palms for the Amazon Golf Course.
Another motocarro full of plants, this time for the flower garden to the right of the entrance.
These plants are for the flower garden to the right of the entrance. Each flower garden will be as close to the same size, and planted with the same plants in sequence as possible.
A new roof on the shelter over the compost and sand to keep them dry.
We are spreading a light layer of dry sand on the greens each time before we role and pack them to make them firmer and smoother. It is working. The new roof on this shelter helps keep the sand dry.
Margarita looks happy with her new table and land line phone at the office of the Amazon Golf Course.
We are growing the Amazon Golf Course business, not just hibiscus bushes, so it is important that we have phone access from our office in Iquitos to Margarita, at the office in the clubhouse. This will be a big improvement.
Now I can even get into the club house easily.
Some day I am sure we will have a modern club house with handicap access, but for now I am proud to have these new, safe, easy steps.
New back steps to the club house.
New steps front and back. If they do not look like a big improvement, you should have climbed the old steps. They were more like broken ladders.
This is the greens nursery, where we raise special grass to plug into weak places in the greens.
We use this special grass from the greens nursery, in an on going effort to make the greens better. It is working.
Planting a living fence on the back side of the Amazon Golf Course along the Santo Tomas road.
We have always had trouble keeping fishermen off of the Amazon Golf Course. They fish our water hazards, which we try to keep stocked with fish, and they try to keep unstocked. They do not respect the barb wire fence so we are planting Amasisa trees, close together to make a living fence. These trees have thorns and hopefully will help protect our golf course on the unguarded back side.
Wildlife.
A nest with eggs on the Amazon Golf Course.
More wildlife.
Another nest with eggs on the Amazon Golf Course, this one on the ground. Bird watchers in Iquitos will find the Amazon Golf Course a good place to spend some time.
This article and the photos show a small part of that we are doing with the blog, and on the Amazon Golf Course. If you are in Iquitos, or planning to visit soon, come on out, play a round of golf, and look around for your self. I think you will be impressed with the improvements. If you are a investor/member, I know you want to help. Contact Mike Collis or Bill Grimes. Give us a hand!
If you are a traveler looking to volunteer, helping reforest 2,000 trees and bushes in the Amazon jungle could make a good story to tell back home.
Here Is Our New Blog Design for Your New Amazon Golf Course
Bill Grimes, manager, Amazon Golf Course
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