Last week I went to my first Camera Club Meeting. It looks like an interesting group of people of various degrees of expertise. I should be able to learn a bit attending the meetings and talking to the members. As I was driving home I noticed the moon rising over the mountains and spent a bit of time trying to get a nice full moon photo.
Thursday was my second time at Men's League Golf. The putting got much better but the driver failed me. After golf, I spent some time trying to figure out why the golf cart was running slow. I bought a cheap hydrometer and voila! Three of the six batteries have one or two bad cells. I contacted the owner and he will be ordering and installing a replacement battery bank for us.
Saturday was a nice but cool day. While enquiring in a hobby shop about a good place to fly the drones I have borrowed, I found out about a Radio Controlled Aircraft Show near Thermal CA. We decided to take a drive out there mid-morning. The theme was Warbirds, all military style model planes. Some of these were quite big models. There were about 50 aircraft and we stayed for an hour or so to watch several fly. Some outstanding models.
Driving around the Thermal area we saw many fields of vegetables and had fun trying to identify what was in each field.
From Thermal we drove to the Cochella Valley Preserve near our place and did a short hike to the 1000 Palms Oasis. There are several trails starting from this location so we will have to return and explore further.
We played our second game of golf on the North Course at Shadow Hills. I matched my score of the previous week. The weather was nice and we got home in time to watch the football games.
This Monday was a cool day so we thought it would be a good day for a trip to Joshua Tree national Park and do some hiking. The park is at a much higher elevation (3000') than the valley where we are staying. Hence, it was only 10C when we arrived at around 10:30. We hiked the Lost Palms Trail at Cottonwood Springs, 13.2 km. I was a nice desert hike with about 300 m of elevation change.
That's the Sultan Sea in the distance (above)
We decided to stay in the park a little later and spend some time on photography at the Barker Dam area. I got a few nice photos after the sun went down but damn, did it get cold. It was 4C when we returned to the car and we have no "winter" clothes.
The next day, it was up early to join the Shadow Hills Hiking Club on our first outing with them. We went to an area near where we hiked a couple of weeks ago and did the Hopalong Cassidy Trail. A nice group of people and we got lots of suggestions for future outings on our own.
This week, the Thursday Men's Golf League was rained out and Friday ended up an all day rain. We got all caught up on shopping and errands.
Yesterday (Saturday) we took advantage of a sunny day to attend the PGA Careerbuilder Challenge Golf Tournament. This used to be the Bob Hope Classic. It was sunny, a bit cool and windy. We were amazed at the low number of spectators in attendance. The players are spread over three local courses so I guess that explains the ease at which you can get a prime spot to watch at any of the greens. We picked the Stadium and Nicklaus course to watch. You had to take a different bus to go to the LaQuinta course where Canadian Adam Hadwin tied a tour record of 59. Missed it.
Phil Mickelson walking onto the green (just before I got in trouble for taking pictures with my phone)
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