I rode my ebike down to the new eighteen basket disc golf course today and got a lot of my steps done. I also walked Dog-oh. I can't put on my socks without walking Dog-oh, he lets me know what he wants in perfectly understandable ways.
The disc golf course was smelling rather rank honestly. The park people were spraying all over the place with this horribly smelling chemical concoction.
It has been raining pretty hard this evening so most of it has probably washed down into the Puget Sound by now. (The park is right next to a river that drains directly into the Sound)
I skipped a bunch of the baskets today and if it clears enough I plan to play somewhere else tomorrow. One of the neighboring communities is not quite so opulent and doesn't have the cash to spray down the grass so often.
I guess it is not so much my discomfort with how it smells as much as what it does to the environment.
Anyhow I did manage to have a nice round although I forgot to take a putter along with me and ended up missing some easy putts.
Here's a view from the tee pad on one of the baskets. Where's the basket? You might wonder. I usually walk up and look out of the small doorway like looking passage to see if anyone is in the range of the throw. Then I just throw it up throw the small break between the trees and hope it doesn't end up in the rough.
If you angle the disc just right with a stable enough disc it will travel far enough to not land in the trees or the two patches of brambles. Here's where my disc landed. This is looking back towards the tee. Too much of a fade or overpowering the disc might put it into the patches you see just to the left and right:
Here's a view towards the basket. If I had my putter I might have been able to birdie this basket. As it was I made par.
Wandering away from the smell at the rest of the course I found this intriguing gangeplank leading towards a door:
When I got to it the door was locked and there was some barbed wire over the top to prevent would be adventurers from going over it. There was a fun looking dock down by the river just beyond the door:
I feel like we need to start doing a lot more about how we treat the environment. I like a nice green grass field but there is a big cost in trying to maintain large fields like this. It is certainly not needed for a disc golf course, however, it is nice to have some mowed fairways where you can throw the disc without worry about losing it in the tall weeds.
I watched a very concerning documentary video about the insect apocalypse today. It is a bit long but worth viewing. (This is not my work but shared under Youtube licensing)
Bottom line - no insects no disc golfing. (It does take food to disc golf and pollinators are essential for food production)
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