An Amazon Golf Adventure in Iquitos Peru

The Clubhouse is painted and trimmed, December 5th, 2009

The Amazon Golf Course clubhouse, freshly painted and trimmed, photographed from the 9th green

Thanks to everyone that donated money towards sprucing up our clubhouse. I think the paint job is a good one. I did not let them dilute the paint very much. What do you think? Do you like the green trim?

I bought the new wooden ceder door you see leaning against the wall so we can lock up the tool room. The door has never been used comes with lock, key, and hinges for S/150 soles, around $50.

The Amazon Golf Course clubhouse new paint job photographed from the west side, around noon.

New paint for the Amazon Golf Course clubhouse on the south side from the entrance lane

New paint for the Amazon Golf Course clubhouse, this is the east side

I guess this was controversial. I insisted on painting the east side the same as the other three sides, don’t dilute the paint, paint it all…with three coats, paint the trim, three coats…I don’t know, most people will never go on the east side but…I go there, and when I look back, I want to be proud of the work, so here it is. If you don’t like it, fire me, please. We have some green paint left so one of the crew is going to paint the water tank green.

Free Saturday Golf Lessons

Jim Sax, our newest golf student, practicing putting at the Amazon Golf Course practice green in front of the clubhouse

Saturday was Jim Sax first time to the Amazon Golf Course, and his first free Saturday morning lessons. He paid us a nice compliment that I will share with you. He said, “Congratulations on having the nicest, cleanest, most modern bathrooms in Iquitos Peru, the tile work, the mirrors, the showers, the toilet seat, the towels, the toilet paper…” Thanks Jim, I passed that on to Margarita and Rodrigo to let them know their work was appreciated.

Free Saturday morning golf lessons at the Amazon Golf Course driving range

More New Construction Projects

The new bleachers in the shade for watching the soccer battles

We put up this new shade structure over bleachers for spectators of the soccer matches. The quality of the soccer games are a very high level of competition.

Rodrigo and Pablo are building a new outhouse on the east boundry of the Amazon Golf Course

Rodrigo and Pablo are building this new flush toilet outhouse near our east boundry. They have tapped into the sewer pipe coming from the clubhouse. This will provide an extra toilet, mostly for the crew, but could be a valuable addition when we have large crowds. It will be finished with wood boards for walls and a thatch roof.

Bloosoms

Pink Hibiscus blossom at the Amazon Golf Course

Even this palm tree near the road is blooming

The east flower garden at the entrance to the Amazon Golf Course

The flower garden west of the lane, photographed from the road in front of the Amazon Golf Course

The rows of ficus and pomarosa trees along the front of the Amazon Golf Course

I am impressed by how fast our landscaping plants and trees have grown. Every blooming bush and every tree will get a fresh mulch of our special compost mixture in the next couple of days. You can see the dark circles of compost around all of the blooming bushes and the rows of ficus and pomarosa trees in this photo.

Marmelita and I are going on vacation in a couple of days, so there will only be one more article with a few photos of the golf course until just before Christmas. I will be looking forward to seeing how much your trees and bushes have grown while we are gone. That is why I keep posting these photos, so we can look back from next year and the years after to see the difference, before, during, and after…

The Clubhouse is painted and trimmed, December 5th, 2009

Bill Grimes is the manager of the Amazon Golf Course until some other qualified, trustworthy person that shares my vision or has a better vision wants the job.

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Our Post-Thanksgiving meal at the Amazon Golf Course will be served around noon on November 29th.

Good Morning members and friends of the Amazon Golf Course. As I type this it is 9:45am on Sunday, November 29th. We sold tickets for nearly one month. Sixty two reservations have been confirmed by paying S/15 soles. Thirty others have made verbal committments, not the same as confirming a reservation but gets us close to our goal of serving 100 meals. We planned the details of putting together this meal and this day for two weeks. We executed our plan all of this last week, and now we are putting the finishing touches on. The grand plan is coming together right on schedule.

We got up this morning at 4:15 to get the turkeys salted, buttered and trussed, with an apple, an onion, several cloves of garlic, and some pieces of ginger in each cavity, to add moisture and flavor. The 6 turkeys are being smoked and roasted with the potatoes in a large wood fired oven. They are scheduled to come out at 10:00am. We are reheating Grannies Southern Cornbread Dressing that we spent all day yesterday cooking. It took 18 batches of Grannies great cornbread with pollenta, and two large plastic bags of french bread plus several quarts of rich home made chicken broth that we cooked for 6 hours two days ago. The noodles are cooking in several gallons of the our chicken broth. They should be done in a few minutes. Sorry, no cranberry sauce. The camu-camu-sauce did not work out.

Twenty cases of beer, and several cases of pop were iced down over night, and we sent more ice out this morning to top off the barrels, and buckets. The electric cooler/freezer is also full.

The best place to be in Iquitos today is the Amazon Golf Course. I hope to see you there.

I have to hurry. We want to slice three of the turkeys here, and get to the Amazon Golf Course by 11:00 to set up the serving system. Got to run. I will report in tomorrow or as soon as we recover, with the results. This has been quite a job. I have sampled the dressing and noodles and I know they are great. I have high hopes and expectations for the turkeys.

Marmelita just took the turkeys out of the oven. I tasted a large bite from the inner thigh. It was cooked perfectly all the way through, and had a moist smokey flavor, one of the best turkey flavors I have tried. This is going to be a great Thanksgiving Meal in Iquitos Peru.

Bill Grimes

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