Productive Days At The Amazon Golf Course
Edson and Richard spraying liquid fertilizer, foliar feeding the Coconut Palm sprouts at the Amazon Golf Course
What happened Friday at the Amazon Golf Course
I closed down the Dawn on the Amazon Tours and Cruises office and the Amazon Explorers Club Lounge again on Friday and took 6 of my crew to join the 9 grounds keepers at the Amazon Golf Club for another big productive, wonderful day. Mike Collis joined our work force.
Richard spraying liquid fertilizer, foliar feeding a small palm sprout at the Amazon Golf Course. The sprout has already been given an application of dry fertilizer, and compost.
We spread 50 kilos of dry fertilizer around 900 trees and blooming bushes.
Margarita spreading dry fertilizer around the blooming bushes on the island of the turtle water hazard
It’s not as easy as it sounds.
Margarita wading back from the island after spreading dry fertilizer around the blooming bushes at the Amazon Golf Course
Then we covered the fertilizer with our special compost mixture.
Cesar adding our special compost mixture on top of the dry fertilizer at the Amazon Golf Course
We also sprayed liquid fertilizer, foliar feeding all of the palm trees and crotons.
Edson foliar feeding a croton at the Amazon Golf Course
We used lots of our special compost mixture around all of the trees and plants.
Augusto adding more compost to a small palm sprout at the Amazon Golf Course
The compost has to be carried in by hard manual labor, either on a back or by wheel barrow.
Cesar carrying a large sack of compost to the back side of the 24 acre Amazon Golf Course. Our grounds crew works hard.
We had a golfer named Ron that played a couple of rounds and loved the course.
Ron said he loved his experience playing golf at the Amazon Golf Course with Rodrigo as his caddie
What happened Saturday at the Amazon Golf Course
Saturday was another productive day at the Amazon Golf Course.
Guido foliar feeding a small bush with a different formula of liquid fertilizer than we used on the palms and crotons. This formula has more nitrogen.
We sprayed a different formula of liquid fertilizer to foliar feed all of the blooming bushes and the flower gardens, containing a higher percentage of nitrogen than we used on the palms and crotons.
I walked all around the golf course examining the crotons for animal damage. Only two plants were damaged.
I was worried that animals would be attracted to the minerals and micro-nutrients in the liquid fertilizer so I walked all around the golf course examining the crotons and palms that we sprayed yesterday. I was relieved that only two crotons had been partially eaten. They will grow back. I hope we didn’t have more damage Saturday night.
Pablo and Shurley rolling green # 8 to make it firmer
The grounds crew are always working on our project to improve the greens to make them smoother and firmer.
Pablo and Shurley rolling, smoothing and firming green # 6 after spreading a layer of fine sand.
I am impressed with the improvement of all the greens. The crew have worked hard. They carry sand in sacks on their backs and in a wheel barrow from near the club house, even all the way to the three farthest greens. Every green is getting an equal treatment.
Orlando and Augusto spreading sand on green # 4. Augusto carries a big sack of sand on his back and Orlando pushes the wheel barrow. This is hard manual labor.
I am proud of how hard our crew work for so little pay.
Charly digging a water channel to a water hazard
Saturday is also the day when we give free golf lessons from 10:00am to 12:00.
Mike Collis met this couple that own a golf course in Tazmania that were kind enough to give golf lessons
Saturday is pay day so Marmelita and I payed the crew around 12:30. Everyone seemed happy.
Marmelita's niece Migrys enjoys coming to the Amazon Golf Course
It was a pleasure having a pretty young woman to pose at the Amazon Golf Course.
We are transforming the Amazon Golf Course into the most attractive recreational facility in Iquitos. There is still much work to do, and many improvements to make but we are headed in the right direction.
Productive Days At The Amazon Golf Course
Bill Grimes, Manager of the Amazon Golf Course
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Every time I go to the golf course it looks better than the last time I was there. Bill you, Mike, the ladys and your band of hard working grounds keepers have done wonders with the place and I know it has been a battle financely (misspelled) as well as the hard work involved. My hat off to all of you!
Harry Kelley