We’re staying in a very nice golf resort outside of Apache Junction, in a small town called Gold Canyon. As I was in the process of finding a place to stay in AJ for November and December, a friend who was looking for a place in AJ for February, called to tell me that this resort had a ‘deal’ going for Oct - Dec. Great deal and we are here. Thank you, Shirley.
There is a 9-hole Executive golf course. I’m thinking that an ‘executive’ course is shorter than a normal course but this one makes up for its shortness in its challenges. Here is the final, the 9th hole, which I think is positively evil. It is surrounded on 3 1/2 sides by water. I don’t care how beautifully they decorate this hole, it is still a moat and makes golf challenging. Here is a picture from the back of the hole where you can see all the landscaping.
And, here is the view from the tee. Evil, I tell you, positively evil.
The golfers have told us that you need to have lots of loft in your shot so that the ball comes down right in the middle of the green and doesn’t roll at all. Great trick. And, how many of you can do that? The other way to play the hole is to hit to the right, the one side of the hole which is not water.
Now, here is the result of that hole, lots of balls end up in the moat. When the maintenance staff dredges the moat and dumps the goop, there are lots of golf balls embedded it it. We walk the resort quite often and found this large pile of goop on one of the back roads. Then we told our neighbor who came out here and retrieved lots of golf balls. He’s set for the winter now.
We’ve been on several back roads driving to trailheads recently and our car was showing the sand and dirt. Time to clean.
One of the residents decorates to the max for Christmas. He’s had a large tarp over his carport for the last few weeks with a countdown clock, counting down the days until he unveils his Christmas display. Now, that Thanksgiving is done, he’s got it all ready. We walked by yesterday and found this massive display. He says it takes them about 4 weeks to put it all together but, for all the electric cords, only costs about $25 for the season.
The views of the surrounding mountains are beautiful and we have this view when we look out of our front window. That mountain in back with the lighter stripe is called the Flatiron. It rises straight up from the desert floor. Pretty impressive.
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