Congo River Adventure Golf: Falls Course

The second 18 holes at Congo River Adventure was the Falls Course.

They had the same “scavenger hunt” thing going on - once again we loved it, and THIS time we found all the objects!!!  (Actually, we never found the spear, but the girl at the front desk gave us both the prize anyway!!  If you find all the hunt items, you get a yellow bouncy ball with a smiley face on it!!)

The over-under hole.

  
You know, this course was pretty full when we played it.  We started a little after 10:00 a.m., and finished at 11:50!!  Normally we play faster than that, but we were looking for the scavenger hunt items, plus there were people in front of us.

I love water falls.  Even if they ARE blue!!   A blue not found in nature!!

 
And I love the bridges.  And I love stepping over water!!

 
These holes - they actually are a lot like regulation golf.  Complete with really rolling terrain.

 
Oh, look at the ridges in this one!!

 
Ha!!  No Con Go!!!  It makes me think of the Star Trek episode “No Kill I”.  Remember that one??  My brother Dave just mentioned it last week.

 
You know, the amazing thing about this course - actually, both halves of this course - was that our balls NEVER bounced out of bounds.  Seriously, there were some pretty steep down-hills, and I often worried that our balls would be going so fast by the time they got to the bottom that they’d just bounce off the rocks and keep going.  But they never did.  Marvelous engineering, I’m thinking.  The same kind of engineering that made these holes all so friendly.

 
And look at these lovely picnic tables at the end - still in the Congo River theme.

 
I ought to mention that we both really enjoyed the music on this course.  It was REALLY diverse:  we heard Stevie Wonder, an Israeli folk song, some 50s doowop, some contemporary world music.  I don’t know if there was a central player that shuffled through that vast an array of music, or whether different holes had different genres.  But we really liked it!!

There was a game arcade at the end - with a Family Guy pinball machine.

 
Statistics:

Par:  40
Aaron:  46
Peg:  49

Difficulty (1-6 putts, 6 putts being the most difficult):  3.5 putts  (but higher for children on account of the really long fairways and steep up-hill holes).

Rating (1-10 balls, 10 being the most wondrous):  7.5 balls according to Aaron.  8 balls according to Peg.  Aaron liked how there were a lot of down-hills.  Peg liked the friendly, friendly cups!!

Coming next:  Wii Golf!!!