Last Day of Golfing: Mission Bay

Today is our last day of golfing. We figure the courses will be really crowded on the weekend and we'll do other things then. We went to Mission Bay Golf which is a City of San Diego course. Getting there was a little hard because our iphone map let us down for the first time on the trip. I can't believe we used to travel without these. You just put the address in and she tells you how to get there. You're ready for lunch and you put in "restaurant" and a bunch of nearby restaurants pop up. We've loved it. But the address for the golf course took us to the sports complex behind the golf course. We were able to drive around the perimeter until we found the club house.

Landscaping near the clubhouse

This golf course was not as hilly as the ones we've done all week. It has some gentle hills and although there were a couple of sand bunkers and a little water, really no hazards to speak of. But it was longer than the longest one we've done by 500 yards. There were four par 4 holes.

No big hills on this course

We did okay on this course and it only took us about 2 and half hours to do. It would have been shorter except we had a threesome of guys in front of us who lollygagged. But we were glad for that as we always worry about holding others up.

The last hole had the biggest hazard: a duck pond right in front of the tee box. This hole was also 291 yards long: the longest we've ever played. It only took me four strokes to get to the green, so my long game has improved considerably!

After golfing we had lunch at a funky fish shop: ahi tacos (okay, I actually ate a fish taco even though they are unnatural) and crab cakes. Then we went to Torrey Pines State Beach. The imap once again took us to the wrong place, first to the Torrey Pines Golf course which was beautiful, right on the water, and then to the Torrey Pines Hang Gliding Port. I did get a neat warning sign for my collection there:

We finally found the beach access park and saw a beautiful osprey up close. He seemed very unperturbed by all the tourists taking his photo. This beach has a wetlands lagoon going inland that is a wildlife preserve, so if we'd been there earlier in the day, we might have seen more birds.

The tide wasn't low, but we hunted for glass on the rocky beach. The glass wasn't as plentiful as some beaches we've hunted on; you had to be very patient. We found some great pieces, though, and they were all very beachified. We did get our shoes wet when a bigger wave than usual caught up on us. We need to remember to bring beach shoes!

 

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