Here are some of what caught my attention at the Amazon Golf Course, November 14th.

Amazon Golf Course water hazards on November 14th

These water hazards are part of what make hole # 4 and hole # 6 difficult.

These water hazards at the Amazon Golf Course help make hole #5 difficult

Water trap at the Amazon Golf Course

Turtle water hazard at the Amazon Golf Course

Green #6 at the Amazon Golf Course on November 14th

Green #4 is one of the most difficult holes at the Amazon Golf Course

Green #3 at the Amazon Golf Course

Every Saturday we have free golf lessons from 10:00am until 12 noon at the Amazon Golf Course.

We have free golf lessons every Saturday morning from 10:00am until 12 noon

Free golf lessons for beginners every Saturday morning at the Amazon Golf Course

Leo Jones showing the proper technique at the Amazon Golf Course Saturday

Amazon Golf Course free golf lessons every Saturday morning from 10-12

Coconuts at the Amazon Golf Course

Coconuts at the Amazon Golf Course November 14th, 2009

Crotons at the Amazon Golf Course

One of over 100 crotons landscaping the Amazon Golf Course

One of the 115 crotons used in a landscape pattern at the Amazon Golf Course

Pomarosa sapling at the Amazon Golf Course

New growth on a Pomarosa sapling at the Amazon Golf Course

Blossoms at the Amazon Golf Course

These beautiful blossoms help mark the water hazard around green #6

Guests of the Amazon Golf Course

Greg Bauer relaxing at the Amazon Golf Course

Greg Baurer visited our golf course for several hours. Greg is in Iquitos on a scouting mission for Shankly Productions to get ideas for a documentary on the ex-pats of Iquitos. Could be interesting. We do have some natural born characters living here.

Guido, Greg, and I in an Iquitos Golf Cart at the Amazon Golf Course

Progress on remodeling the bathroom at the Amazon Golf Course clubhouse

Rodrigo cutting tile for the shower stalls and toilet in the clubhouse of the Amazon Golf Course

Working on the shower stalls on November 14th, 2009

We are making progress on all fronts thanks to the hard work of our crew. I give them a lot of credit. Thanks particularly to Margarita, Rodrigo, Cesar, Augusto, and Orlando. I am very proud of them. Today all of our full time crew signed contracts giving them health insurance, and a retirement fund. Most of them got pay raises, and all of them make at least minimum wage.

I hope you were interested in what caught my attention at the Amazon Golf Course, November 14th, 2009.

Bill Grimes is manager of the Amazon Golf Course.

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Planting Trees, Free Golf Lessons, Blossoms, Saturday At The Amazon Golf Course

Cesar, Augusto, Orlando, and Rodrigo with the 25 Pomarosa saplings they scavenged from the neigborhood

Remember a couple of weeks ago when our neighbor to the east started a fire that spread over to our side of the fence killing several Pomarosa saplings? Animals ate the tops out of a few others and some died of natural causes. Altogether, we needed 32 replacement Pomarosa saplings to maintain our pattern.

Orlando and Augusto planting Pomarosa trees on the Amazon Golf Course

Rodrigo, Cesar, Augusto, and Orlando volunteered to go around looking for new starts under mature Pomarosa trees in the neighborhood and toward the Itaya River. A couple of hours later they proudly returned with 25 healthy young Pomarosa starts, and immediately started planting them in our special compost mixture. Good work guys.

Free golf lessons at the Amazon Golf Course

If it is Saturday, it means free golf lessons from 10:00am to 12:00am. We already have 4 more golf students signed up for next Saturday.

Free golf lessons on Saturday at the Amazon Golf Course. Practicing chip shots.

Last week we worked for two days fertilizing all of our trees and blooming bushes. It was gratifying to see new growth, vivid colors, and more blossoms only one week later. It will only get better.

Cockscomb marking a water hazard at the Amazon Golf Course

We still need 14 crotons to complete our pattern of a croton between every Coconut Palm tree along the fairways.

Brilliant foliage of a young croton at the Amazon Golf Course

Blossoms

Brides Bouquet marking a water hazard at the Amazon Golf Course

Imagine these blooming bushes waist high and covered with blossoms next year.

Blossoms in our flower garden at the entrance of the Amazon Golf Course

Ground cover in the flower garden at the entrance of the Amazon Golf Course

Ground orchid marking a water hazard at the Amazon Golf Course

Blooming bush marking a water trap at the Amazon Golf Course

Pink Isabel planted on the edge of a water trap at the Amazon Golf Course

Blooming bush planted along side a water trap at the Amazon Golf Course

Pink blossoms mark a water hazard at the Amazon Golf Course

Minature roses in the flower garden at the entrance of the Amazon Golf Course

Mother nature showing off her hidden spiral design

Violet Isabel along a water trap at the Amazon Golf Course

Marmelita is my favorite blossom at the Amazon Golf Course

We are also working on the Amazon Golf Course clubhouse

Working on the Amazon Golf Course clubhouse

As usual, there is a lot going on at your Amazon Golf Course. Come visit and see what we are doing with your own eyes. Play a couple of rounds. Let us know what you think.

Bill Grimes, Manager, Amazon Golf Course

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