English Seaside Resort

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Re: Beach pics, post #4:

Is that a chain link fence between the beach and the water?

No. Are you looking at the wind turbines out to sea?
It's a picture that doesn't stand up to zooming I'm afraid, but if that's what you mean then they are a long way out - they're about 200 feet tall!

One of the things Dad did not mind spending money on was Crazy Golf.
He and Mum have a long-standing competition, which has been waged all over the world, but especially in Yarmouth. Dad is a good golfer. He can't afford to play any more, but always challenged his brother Charlie to a match at out local council run 9 hole course when he came to visit. Charlie is dead now, and the Pitch & Putt closed around the same time, so Dad relishes the chance to compete with a club in his hand. Mum's more like me. Hit and miss. With sudden flares of brilliance, and the occasional flukey hole-in-one.

Dad won all three games we played.

We went to Pirate's Cove on the Front. Best course I've ever played, really inventive layout, lots of obstacles. But we started at hole 12, because Mum was feeling ill and had sat outside. Dad was worried about her feeling cold and couldn't remember if she had any money on her to get a cup of tea. So we ducked under the ropes to jump the queue at hole 1 and only played 6. The chap behind the desk asked us if we wanted to go back and play the rest (I guess I stood out on the CCTV?) but we were quite happy to leave. Mum recovered instantly. Hmmmmm.

We also played on the Arnold Palmer course. It was nowhere near as much fun as I remembered. It's really basic. But then I did play there 35 years ago - we didn't have much to divert us in those days!

And finally we played on the course in the camp.
This was somewhere between the two. Great theming, but some quite basic holes. Oh and I fell into the bushes (sober, with flat shoes on - I just backed up too far and lost my footing on a piece of stone coping. Mum's reaction? "Oh you silly cow!" before actually checking I was okay) which might have coloured my views.

As you can see the sun came out that afternoon (Wednesday)