Prologue
I know that I said that I was going to post about HCC’s disc golf course next. That isn’t happening for several reasons. First, my discs were in my wife’s car and I kept forgetting to retrieve them. Second, it rained most of the end of last week. Third, it was the end of summer semester and I had grades to do. So, that adventure will have to wait. I will most likely do the HCC course next week. The reason that I’m not going to do it this week is that I have to space the adventures so that it doesn’t become repetitive and today I’m talking disc golf in Tully!
Journal
My wife mentioned that she wanted to go paddleboarding yesterday. Well, she actually said two days ago that she wanted to go tomorrow. Two days ago tomorrow is yesterday. Got it? Okay, well, confusing timeline aside, I asked her where she wanted to take the board. She answered as I expected by saying that she wanted to go to one of the beach lakes.
You can probably guess that my casual inquiry was actually self serving. I’m not much of a beach guy. I’ve become more acclimated to the beach lifestyle since I took up swimming. I also figured out what most people already know. If you’re captive to the sun, surf, and sand, you might as well bring a book to keep you company. However, I’m still not on the level of my wife or our youngest when it comes to beach buminess. They are the beach bumiest of our whole family.
Therefore, I followed my casual inquiry with an equally casual mention of Tully Lake as a possibility for the trip. Seeing as how I missed my chance to write about HCC’s disc golf course on the page, I could instead do the Tully course as my introductory disc golf journal. It’s a course with which I’m more familiar, so that I didn’t have to concentrate as much on the course. Instead, I could concentrate on how I was going to construct these entries into the journal.
Admittedly, my reasons were selfish, but they weren’t exclusively for my benefit. Tully also has good fishing, a playground for Quinn, and sometimes swimming. It’s not technically a beach lake on this side, but people do get wet and there are islands, one of which has a rope swing. We couldn’t go out to the islands because we didn’t bring the canoe, but they are there. So, it was the best of all worlds.
This is probably where you expect me to talk about my big but. After all, we all know that everyone has a big but. Well, I can confidently say that there is no big but in this story. I got to disc golf all but 2 of the tees. After taking a break after the first 9 because Aiden was hot, tired, hungry, and thirsty, we got stuck behind a group of four chuckers. Eventually, they got ahead of us, but then they must have been stuck behind a group, too, because we caught up to them again. I suggested we just skip to two holes ahead to finish out the round. Aiden was more than happy to oblige and that finished our day on the course.
Christine got some time on the paddle board. So did Liam and Quinn. Quinn got his play time at the park and it sounded like he was having fun. I pulled a chair over by the water and just sat and watched the lake for the last 15-20 minutes of our trip. I didn’t want to leave, but everyone else was ready to go eat dinner. This visit didn’t result in any new friends like the last one. I didn’t have any epiphany while watching the water or playing disc golf. Overall, it was just an average trip to the lake that was enjoyed by all. Hey, they can’t all be life changing. Then again, who’s to say that it wasn’t.
Epilogue
At the beginning of the round, I started taking pictures from each tee. Similar to the video that I shot during my hike up Tully Mountain, I’m not entirely sure how I’m going to use them. I did get the idea today to do a video walk through of the courses (right now just HCC and Tully) to post to a YouTube page. This blog is still very much in its infancy and things are being worked out.
If I’m smart about it, I will start to check out some of the other web pages, YouTube channels, and blogs that are dedicated to outdoor activities. That way I can start to get an idea of what kind of voice the pages generally have. I mean, I’m probably not going to change my voice completely. That’s just not the type of writer I am. I will try to incorporate what I see and learn into the page, obviously, but my voice is my own.
We just learned that we are taking a surprise trip to Cape Cod this weekend. A friend and colleague of Christine has a house down there and it is available. So, even though we’ve been there numerous times over the years, we might be in a different part of the Cape this time, so that opens up the possibility of adventure!