We had an action packed F-Troop morning being the first day that we have been able to get vehicles out on the course for maintenance tasks for some three weeks.
We had on hand Duncan Dyer, Des Wilson, Garry Trigg, Fred Middleton, Bruce White, George Foster, Warren Gray, Peter Martin, Jan Martin, Georgina Lamb, Anne Burgess and Yvonne Wilson.
The biggest task of the morning was bringing down some of the Coral Trees on the left hand side of the 2nd Fairway. Coral Trees are weeds in the same line as Camphor Laurels & are no value to a golf course.
The Tree Gang this morning was Duncan Dyer, Des Wilson, George Foster, Garry Trigg, Bruce White & Fred Middleton. Everything went smoothly when the first couple of trees came down & then havoc broke out when the F-Troopers were attacked by a swarm of bees that had set up a nest in a big tree that was laying down across the 2nd fairway. Several F-Troopers suffered bee stings the worst being Des Wilson who got multiple stings. In order to be able to remove the tree from the fairway the bees nest had to be eradicated so that the tree could be cut up and removed. Duncan Dyer with the help of George Foster & Des Wilson managed to take care of the problem while the rest of us stayed a very safe distance away in our vehicles ready to run if necessary. The boys worked hard & did a great job cutting up and removing the timber.
Peter Martin & Warren Gray did the next biggest task being the rubbish pick up around the course which has accumulated for the last three weeks. It was a huge job & well done by Peter & Warren.
Peter went on to secure a pole at the Ladies 13th garden so that we can add a "Teapot" feature to this garden.
Georgina Lamb & I chipped around the Limelights on the 7th, the Blue Ice Conifers on the 12th and managed to get half of the Lomandra Grasses on the 15th free of weeds.
Anne Burgess cleaned out the garden behind the Men's 10th tee.
Yvonne Wilson did some TLC on her gardens including fertilizing.
Morning Tea was very welcome after all that hard work & we enjoyed some chocolate pastries fresh from the oven. Thanks Chef John!
The Water Feature in the new garden at the first is now working well. It is a pity that we had yet another careless "Bigfoot" stepping on one of the new hedge plants in this garden. After going to the trouble to replace the broken hedge plant at the front steps last week I found that yet another hedge plant had been carelessly stepped on. (Very disappointing after all the effort that has gone into creating these gardens) - However we will persevere as we believe the effort is worthwhile.
YES! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
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