Bingo, Bango, Bongo Champion.....

What a great day we had, both weatherwise and funwise.  Sunny with a bit of high cloud and just a nice cooling breeze.  Headed off to the Black Pearl golf course right after breakfast, takes about 40 minutes to get there.  Went to the clubhouse that they had last year and found it to be deserted.  They've got a new, full fledged clubhouse going now, right down by the ocean, just lacking a bit of signage to get there.  Gorgeous spot.

View from the balcony of the clubhouse

We got teamed up with a couple of nice guys, one does realty and renovations on Roatan, the other was a retired guy who was down visiting his daughter.  We knew right away that we were not teamed up with a pair or ringers, so it was all pretty relaxed.  The course is absolutely gorgeous and will only get better as they are still working on some of the finer touches, such as the trail to the driving range.
I found it humerous when we got to the driving range.  I couldn't see any balls there, but then the caddy went over by a tree and picked up one of those ball plucker devices and emptied it out for us so that we had balls to hit.  While we were there another young guy wandered in, and as soon as we finished hitting our driving range shots, he headed out with the ball plucker to pick up the range balls.  That's not something that you're going to see in Canada.
Well my game went about normal, the picture of inconsistency.  Here's a summary of one five hole sequence; 7 over, par, par, 5 over, par, and in that stretch I scored 5 bingo, bango, bongo points.  But no, I was not the winner, Eileen was crowned champion of the 101 FM golf outing with a total of 18 points. 

Pictures don't do the course justice.

Actually she was tied with one guy so they checked to see if there were any threes scored, the both got one on the same hole, so they checked for 2's, they both had three of them on the same three holes.  Since he worked for the radio station, they defaulted the Golded Radio award to Eileen, which is sort of sweet because the house doesn't have a radio, and now we do...... just with gold spray paint over all the labels so we don't know which button does what.....but it works.
And the best part is that the station must have swung a sweet deal with the golf course because the green fees ($1,700) all went toward a charity which is sending one kid to the Sandy Bay Alternative school.  Total fun day.
Stopped in at the Bulk Gourmet shop in French Harbour on the way home and scoured through their freezers.  They have a really good selection of frozen meats there.  Picked up a packet of steaks, chicken wings, and boneless pork chops.  The chops were $7.  Did them up on the BBQ tonight and they were delicious.  Turned in a crate of empties at the beer depot, with a refill of course ($23), picked up a few groceries in Coxen Hole, a couple of jugs of water at the gas station, and then it was back to the house. 
Did that day ever go fast........got the morning dives booked for tomorrow,  Lots of stars out tonight so I think it might just be another one of those kind of lazy sunny afternoon days down here......