Mosgeil, Dunedin

Photographer "in clover"!

The Otago Rail Trail Cycle is now completed and we are back into golf! Monday we played at Middlemarch which apparently only has 43 members and so of course we were the only ones there. We enjoyed the course which was flat meadowland with lots of dandelions, dried grass and some clover. Instead of bunkers, of which there was only one, there were big rocks making some green approaches difficult. The greens were challenging being dry and rather "bumpy" but the wind we had experienced on the cycle trail had abated and the sun came out making it quite hot.

After our 18 holes we drove on to Mosgiel, just east of Dunedin finding the scenery on the way to be awesome. We hadn't travelled this way before and it was amazing to see all the craggy piles of schist over all the land, especially coming out of Middlemarch.

Schist! - we could be on Mars!

.....or is it Arizona?

Once we arrived in Mosgeil it was exciting to visit our first real supermarket for 3 weeks and stock up especially on nice fresh fruit and vegetables. We spent the night at Wingatui Race Course with about 6 other vans. It's an NZMCA POP and costs just $8 a night with toilet facilties and water available. It rained throughout the night but hasn't been so bad today - just light showers occasionally as we were playing golf, this time at the Twelve Oaks course at Mosgeil which is flat and quite parklike but I found a lot of their trees kept getting in my way! But at last we have found some other people playing this game. It was men's day today and they were very welcoming, inviting us to join them in the club rooms afterwards, which we did. We are also staying in their carpark for the night and as I write this all the committee members are arriving for a meeting. Only 15° today but from past experiences I know it's likely to be quite different tomorrow - maybe all 4 seasons in one day!