Time to reminisce

I was just going through some old pictures for the Olds College tour on September 25 and I came across some pictures of the bridge moving event quite a few years ago.

The forklift and truck coming down the edge of the 16th fairway in January, 1998 and that was one cold day!

 

 

There was no better time to do the relocation as the ground was frozen solid.

 

The flatbed backing into place just before the bridge was pulled across the frozen pond.

 

And there it is relocated from the gulley between holes 4 and 5 to where it is now.

Sunrise

Another nice sunrise on June 17, looking over the 16th green.

Baby ducks

There were five ducks nests on the course that we knew of, and probably just as many that were hidden in the long grass of the no-mow zones.  

Another nice sunrise

Another nice sunrise, looking down the 10th hole, on May 21, 2013.

Cormorants

The Double-crested cormorants found in Alberta are all black with some color near their bills.  They eat mainly fish and eels and spend time along the pond edges drying their wings.

Ducks Unlimited

Here is a good shot of a pair of Northern shovellers in the pond on hole 7.

Irrigation repairs

Most of the irrigation repairs are done on dry ground but from time to time we need to venture into the ponds to make a repair.  In this picture John prepares to do some diving to repair a  water line that feeds the self-cleaning lake valve.