This is a very nice golf course, particularly for a public course when so many other courses here are so expensive. But I couldn’t hit a decent shot for 18 holes-–no, wait, I remember, I had two good shots. But I simply had no swing at all, nothing felt smooth or comfortable. Larry didn’t play a bad game, certainly not as bad as mine. Hopefully I can do better tomorrow--god knows I can’t do worse (DON’T say it!!!). But tomorrow we will explore north and then come back and play affordable Wailua golf course again. With my current "game" (and it’s stretching it to call what I shot today a golf game!), I’m not willing to pay big bucks. But Larry reminded me that even at Hilton Head, I start off lousy and do get better as the week goes along. So maybe I’ll do better. And even though we started at 2 pm, by the time we finished at 6 pm, the sun was long below the western mountains and it was actually getting chilly again.
But we are enjoying seeing all the very different scenery here. It’s not at all what I expected. I guess I expected a tourist-type developed place. Even as "distant" as Cabo San Lucas was and as "third world" as the city there itself was (typical Mexico), Cabo was MUCH more developed and much more done so to the high-end tourist. Here is still very rustic and 1960s-era shack tourist shops. And considering what I am used to in beach tourist places, like Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head, here the mountains are almost everywhere in the background--it's very dramatic. There aren’t any mountains anywhere close to the shore along the Atlantic coast.
And my EARS are sunburned! I’ve NEVER had sunburned ears before. But then I’ve never had hair this short before. But, hello to the sunscreen from now on. So that’s the result from riding around in a convertible all day.
We got back to the condo tonight and got ready to cook surf (shrimp) and turf (a steak) for dinner. I checked email, and unfortunately found out that Larry’s surrogate father, technically his uncle, but a man he was very fond of, and who has had Parkinson’s Disease for many years and who has been in a nursing home for about the last year, died yesterday. This was a sad event for Larry, and we’re sure the funeral will be before we return to the continental states. So this day has ended on a rather sad note for a vacation day. So I will wrap this up for tonight. We’ll go on with the vacation tomorrow, but for tonight, we’ll go sit by Mother Ocean and let her swirling surf assuage Larry’s pain for now.