Wednesday 9th May

Ready to play - Ben played off the blue tees

We awoke to another sunny day. Golf had been booked for 11.20 am, using one of our vouchers, at Oyster Creek golf club. The course was excellent and in great condition with well defined fairways wending through the pines.  The greens were large and undulating and very fast.  There were houses tucked into the pines at the sides of the fairways which did not in any way interfere with the golf.  We were told it would be slow as we were a 2 ball amongst groups of 4. However it gave us plenty of time to enjoy the scenery and the lovely aromas which one experiences amongst the pine trees. The course was difficult with many bunkers, which we were later told are to be made smaller, and putting on what seemed like glass (I noted that even Phil Mickelson is complaining about the speed of the greens at TPC Sawgrass which is about 150 miles south of here). We saw our first alligator of the holiday basking on the edge of a lake - we have named it Alice!

Liz has a new friend

I played slightly better than yesterday and Ben's driving was much improved from the last round but he struggled with his putting. Score so far 2-0 to Liz!

After golf we explored a couple of marinas and made a quick visit to Walmart before returning to our apartment and eating the remains of last evening's pizza.

'Alice' the alligator