Day 4 - Jan 10
Before breakfast I found the elevator (plus four flights of stairs) to the towers of the hotel. A grand view for pictures.
Golf again. This time on the Gary Player Course where the Million Dollar Challenge is played. Caddies and walking. My caddie Amos was hit on the ankle on the very first hole by one of the other players in my foursome. He elected to go on, limping for a few holes, as I'm sure that he didn't want to give up the job for the day. While the pay is meager, $15 is generous, work is scarce so every job is important. This course as you would imagine was quite a bit more difficult that the first course. Longer, more bunkers and the greens had generous undulations. Enjoyed the game, especially walking with my own caddie. Despite the sore ankle he was a good lad who knew the course well and helped considerably. After the game and lunch, I went to a croc farm. For $5 you get admission and bag of meat pieces along with plastic gloves (to handle the meat). You walk around the edge of the pen which must have been 2 to 3 acres and when you find some hungry looking (they all do)critters you throw them some pieces which are eagerly snapped up. There were big ones, small ones, and babies, lying about mostly, but a few were swimming. Anyway it was a awesome place to contemplate getting lost in. Dinner at the hotel but in another dining room which was arrived at by walking down a passage which went under a waterfall. Italian
cuisine and very good. I had a "sampler" of four different pastas.

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