ONLY IN AMERICA (page 2)

Berkeley Aquatic Park San Francisco, CA.
It was a damp Saturday afternoon in March that found us heading around the San Francisco Bay area, on the east side of the bay lies Berkeley Aquatic Park, the web directions were spot on and Kate was just dozing off to sleep as I found the park - perfect. Course host for my round at Berkeley was JJ - a local DG player I met in the car park - whose dog was wonderfully trained to find, but not maul the thrown disc. Such talents were sadly useless on my very first drive, with my Polaris doing as it should going long and straight, sadly enough the hole required a hyzer and my disc disappeared into the lake, at this rate my limited disc supply wouldn't last the round. Fortunately I found a gazelle later on the course, I'm sorry Brad Miller but you can have it back if you ever come over! Ingo's article in a recent edition only rated this course a 6/10, I thought that was a little unfair - although the course is short it has some nice undulations plus the wind, water and trees can provide for some testing holes. I was quite happy to shoot +8 thanks to some monster (and completely out of character) putts, JJ shot a more respectable +4, but then it is his home course.

Later that evening we quaffed a few brews and talked more DG. (talked bollocks more like - Kate) Although there was no course in Death Valley, I had to have a few throws on the Salt lake at the 'Badlands', this is the lowest land point on the Earth's surface (280 feet below sea level). The Salt Lake is dead flat and featureless (no - not 'just like Hayling') and very weird to walk across. Just don't use a white disc, and anyone who throws rollers is in for a long walk.

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