Every 12 months or so my golfing friends and I head to a fancy golf course for the Blue Jacket Masters. Previous winners have been Adrian, Jon (The Dunes), Adrian again, then Matt. I can’t remember the courses that Adrian and Matt won on. Maybe they’re reading this and will record their past glories in the comments.
Anyway, this year we were on the 13th Beach beach course (not a typo, it’s called the beach course), which is a tough layout and is rated the 17th best course in Australia. Here’s one of the holes. Scary when there’s a four club breeze blowing across from the sea.
We had yet another great day and this year John triumphed - his 36 stableford points off a handicap of 27 just beating me on 34 (off 20). Nice one John! Here he is in front of the 13th clubhouse, proudly wearing the Blue Jacket.
P.S. That’s a cameraphone pic. Takes a nice shot, does the new phone.
Been a good weekend so far. Up early for a surf on Saturday, a lazy breakfast with Kate, Bec, Damian and John in Barwon Heads, home to hitch the boat up for a wake session in the afternoon, back home again for a BBQ (in the rain!), some Texas Hold ‘Em, up early-ish again today for another surf, home for pancakes, then a solid afternoon’s gardening. I’m surfing again in the morning (4-5ft offshores, which should be good) and then we’re heading to Sim and Bek’s in the afternoon for Mexicana night. Phew!
The wake session wasn’t great (lots of chop) but all the Skandia Geelong Week boats were out so we joined the flotilla and watched the monster yachts as they approached Geelong instead. We had to stay out of their way though - they were moving pretty quickly ‘cos they had their main sails up. It was an amazing sight and great to be out there less than 50m away rather than watching them from the shore!
Cooking up a storm (ha ha)
Our friends James and Lou have a new puppy, Ellie, and this morning they brought her down to the beach for the first time. It was also the first time she’d met another dog (i.e. Max). She looked like she was having a ball - not afraid of the water (but a bit wary of the moving waves), sniffing and playing with the seaweed, running around with Max and so on. It even seemed as though she was copying him when she was on the lead by walking along properly. Not bad for an 11-week-old!
It was overcast so the photos are a bit dull.
Full album of 12 photos on our Picasa page.
When I was 16 I tried to chew a Murray Mint. Not to see what would happen, mind you, I think I was just in a hurry. If you’re familiar with Murray Mints (and if you’re not, look them up), you’ll know that chomping on them is not a good idea. I soon found that out. I lost one of the points from my mandibular first molar (left).
Nearly 20 years later, the point is still missing (not that I thought it would grow back or anything) but the rest of the tooth is still there. It doesn’t hurt and I’ve never had anything done to it. I tend to chew on the right side of my mouth, though.
Yesterday evening, whilst chewing on a nice tender piece of eye fillet, I lost a point from the equivalent molar on the right side of my mouth. Surprised me a bit, to be honest, as it came out of nowhere, and eye fillet steak is considerably less crunchy than a Murray Mint.
The tooth doesn’t hurt, and I can still chew (lightly), but by crikey it’s sharp. My poor tongue is getting sliced to pieces in there. I can’t swallow food properly because my tongue moves against the sharp bit. Try it.
I must be getting old. I guess I’ll have to head to a dentist at some point to fix things up. Hmmmmm…
This morning we woke up at 7.30, which is early for a non-surfing Sunday, and went for a walk along the Surf Coast Walk between Bells and Point Addis. The path runs for about 30km from Jan Juc to Airey’s Inlet - we’ve walked sections of it before but hadn’t done this one.
The surf was pretty flat so there only a few desperados out on their longboards but the calm ocean was still great to look at - it was as blue as can be when the sun came out.
We were walking for just over an hour, so we’ll call it 5kms return. Just tried to find a map online but couldn’t so I made my own.
