Despite the slightly warmer temperatures the turf on both courses is still struggling after the effects of the floods and a long cloudy winter, not to mention the wear from golf carts.  The photo below is the buggy path leading to 18R fairway where it has been roped off for the past six weeks.  Despite being a heavily shaded area to turf has greened up and is in fairly reasonable condition with no golf cart traffic over this time.  The cart traffic is really doing some damag with many groups with four carts and just the sheer number of players going through the courses.  Most Fridays now have over five hundred players booked in which is staggering.

18R cart path.

It will be interesting to see what happens this year with the seasonal weather.  The Jacaranda tree I have been observing over the years flowered eight days later than last year and the Rainbow Bee Eater birds have appeared a week later than last year.  Another thing I monitor is when the fairway Couch throws up a seedhead and that happened one week earlier than last year.  I don't really know if any of it is related to turfgrass health but it's interesting to note.  What we really need is some real heat and sunny conditions.  I am not looking forward to the health of the turf if we do get the wet summer as predicted and the player levels and cart traffic continue as they have been.

And one of my favourite photos from a few years back from an avid bird photographer. 

Incoming meal.