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To: SirWalterRalegh who wrote (7212)	7/21/2005 8:24:47 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12235

Rick I am indeed fairly fettle. I'm amazed at how well some fairly hefty blokes heave themselves up hill and down dale at Waitakere golf course. It really is a bit of a haul up and down and up and down. It feels like real golf. Flat courses which go backwards and forwards seem pathetic. I think it's even more beautiful than the description on a blue day with fluffy white clouds and 747s cruising through the skyline and wood pigeons swooping around as well as fan tails fluttering around golfers, rabbits, rosellas [a kind of colourful parrot], quail, white parrots flying over at dusk in a big valley surrounded by the Waitakere mountain range, open to the west for fantastic sunsets when there's the right cloud cover but with the horizon clear for the sun to shine through. Sitting on the deck at sunset with a bottle of wine is about as near to nirvana as exists. Tee times and golf carts are not what golf is about. Unfortunately, the course is crowded these days [compared with 5 years ago] so sometimes there are other people showing up to play at the same time and somebody has to wait for a few minutes, or play from the tenth. Mqurice