VIVO Mini Golf Treasure Island in Santa Cruz de Tenerife

A look at VIVO Mini Golf Treasure Island in Tenerife.

VIVO Mini Golf Treasure Island is home to two outdoor mini golf courses - the Red course and the Yellow course.

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Today is World Octopus Day

The 8th October is World Octopus Day.

We've seen quite a few octopuses on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

Find out more.

Visit the World Animal Protection website for more information about World Octopus Day.

World Octopus Day

Today is World Octopus Day.

We've seen quite a few octopuses on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour over the years.

Pirate Mini Golf at the centre:MK in Milton Keynes

Playing the pop-up Pirate Mini Golf course at the centre:MK. Six years ago today.

On Sunday 1st June 2014 we headed over to Milton Keynes to make the 560th course visit on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

The 12-hole Pirate Mini Golf course became the 336th played since 2006.

The course was of the 'Eternit' type of Miniature Golf - with the addition of felt to the playing surface and a few non-standard hole types and obstacles.

The pirate-theming around the site was very well done and the striking blue of the felt on the course made a nice contrast with the green felt flooring surrounding it.

Happy World Octopus Day

Today is World Octopus Day.

The lurking octopus in Castleford

International Octopus Day is the perfect time to celebrate these creatures of the deep.

We've seen quite a few octopuses on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Olga the Octopus at Southend Pier Crazy Golf

A kraken on the pop-up Pirate Adventure Golf at the Centre MK in Milton Keynes

Another kraken, this one was on the Pirate Island Adventure Golf course at Lyons Robin Hood Holiday Camp in Rhyl

Playing the Sea Dwellers Crazy Golf course at Pensarn Beach in Abergele

Playing the Olga the Octopus hole on Southend Pier

The lesser-spotted octopus obstacle on a DK Fibreglass Crazy Golf course

The course had five cups on each green. It's the only course of its kind we've played. It's also the only course I've shot a 'perfect' round on

A destructive octopus at the indoor Pirate Adventure Mini Golf course in Blackpool

A cephalopod on the Sea Dwellers Crazy Golf course at The Golden Palm Resort, Chapel St Leonards, near Skegness

An octopus on the fibreglass Crazy Golf course at the MiniLinks in St Annes on the Sea

An octopus in the glow-in-the-dark section of Mr Mulligan's Lost World Adventure Golf course in Stevenage

 

The kraken on the pop-up Pirate Mini Golf course at the Galleria Shopping Centre in Hatfield

Have you seen any octopus obstacles on a crazy, minigolf or adventure golf course? Do let us know where they were.

Revisiting Hastings Pier

We recently visited Hastings for the first time since 2015 and it was great to have a walk on the new pier. We'd only ever been on it once before back in 2008.

We were really impressed with what has been built following the fire which almost totally destroyed it in 2010.

A view of the new pier from White Rock Gardens

The end of the pier is a nice wide-open space. We've visited a lot of piers on our travels and Hastings Pier is certainly different to most

A pair of Minions on the pier

We visited the pier just after the Hastings Pier Yarn Bomb had opened!

There was a lot of knitted bunting

Having a nice sit down next to a mermaid

  

A knitted beach hut

The knitting got almost everywhere

One of the un-yarn bombed benches at the end of the pier

While we were on the pier on Sunday we spotted an ice cream cart going round offering free knitted ice creams! They were gluten free to boot

Enjoying my knitted Ice Cream alongside Hastings character John 'Big Top Ted' McIver

Visit the Hastings Pier website for more information.

Mr Mulligan's Lost World Adventure Golf in Stevenage

A visit to Mr Mulligan's latest Adventure Golf course.

You can't miss the entrance to the Lost World Golf!

Last year we heard about a new minigolf venue opening in Stevenage and Mr Mulligan's latest course - Lost World Golf - opened at Stevenage Leisure Park earlier this year.

Mr Mulligan's Lost World Golf gets the thumbs up from the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

We've been itching to get along for a game and earlier this week we had a round on the two nautical themed courses. We loved it.

Our crew of adventure golfers in Stevenage

The courses became the 685th and 686th visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour, and were the 403rd and 404th played.

A view of the Jungle course

The 16th hole in the Jungle

Our group hit the Jungle Explorers course for round one and followed this with a game on the Ocean Adventurers layout.

Emily on the 15th about to putt to the ground floor green

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There is some excellent theming throughout the indoor Adventure Golf venue - not least the giant wooden submarine that sits in the middle of the two courses!

Local competitor Simon Hinton and the wooden submarine

What an obstacle/hole/feature!

The inside of the submarine contains a very very tough hole to play!

There's a real mix of obstacles and hole types and there's even a section of holes where you are plunged into blacklight - one of my favourite types of minigolf environments to play in.

The blacklight area on the Ocean Adventurers course

A glow in the dark octopus

Meeting Mr Mulligan

Emily putting under the sea

As we're super competitive players we made sure we kept score and the results of our contest are below - it was very close indeed!

Round 1 - Jungle Explorers Championship
1st - Simon 'Local Athlete' Hinton - 45
2nd (tied) - Cat 'Helter Skelter' Patterson - 46
2nd (tied) - 'Squire' Richard Gottfried - 46
4th - Emily 'Lemony' Gottfried - 51
5th - Simon 'Practice' Hall - 52
6th - 'First Game' Salimeh - 71

Round 2 - Ocean Adventurers Championship
1st - 'Squire' Richard Gottfried - 47
2nd - Emily 'Lemony' Gottfried - 51
3rd - Simon 'Local Athlete' Hinton - 52
4th - Cat 'Helter Skelter' Patterson - 56

The champ

Overall - Stevenage Invitational Tournament
1st - 'Squire' Richard Gottfried - 46 + 47 = 93
2nd - Simon 'Local Athlete' Hinton - 45 + 52 = 97
3rd (tied) - Cat 'Helter Skelter' Patterson - 46 + 56 = 102
3rd (tied) - Emily 'Lemony' Gottfried - 51 + 51 = 102
5th - Simon 'Practice' Hall - 52 + DNF
6th - 'First Game' Salimeh - 71 + DNF

Always nice to see a shark on a minigolf course. And a large mouthed sea monster

Aces Championship
1st (tied) - Cat Patterson - hole 4 (Jungle) and hole 9 (Ocean)
1st (tied) - Simon Hinton - hole 13 and 18 (Jungle)
3rd - Emily Gottfried - hole 7 (Jungle)

Another fine minigolf scorecard added to The Crazy Golf Museum archives

It was also nice to have a break between rounds with a drink at the bar. We also had a celebratory/consolation drink at the end of our second round.



Visit Mr Mulligan's website for opening times and prices, as well as details of his courses in Milton Keynes, Sidcup, Castleford, Nottingham and Woking. We've yet to visit the Nottingham course at Ramsdale Park Golf Centre.

You can read about Mr Mulligan's exploits at the course

Links:
- Adventure Golf Limited website
- Mr Mulligan's Adventure Golf website
- Stevenage Leisure Park website

Related blog posts:
- Indoor Mini, Crazy and Adventure Golf courses
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - List and links for all Miniature Golf courses visited to date
- Hertfordshire
- Stevenage
- Shark

Video:
- Playing the Doomsday Device at Mr Mulligan's Lost World Adventure Golf in Stevenage

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