Filmed before construction began. Unchanged since.
The Florida sandhill crane does not migrate. It stays.
There is a bird that lives here year-round.
The Florida sandhill crane is the resident subspecies. They were on this land before any of us, and they will be here after.
Soleta is a Seminole word for that bird.
Once you name a club after something, it turns out to be difficult to stop.
A colt is a crane before it can fly, so the par-three course is The Colt. The Hatch sits beside it. The Nest is the pool. And a staging ground is where cranes gather before they fly — which is a pretty good description of thirty acres built for practice.
Not everything follows the rule.
Fish Camp is a fish camp.
A club this young has names before it has traditions. A few habits are already forming — Crooksy's Secret Nine, which someone has to tell you about. Cold drinks at The Hatch, there when you want one. The familiar faces. The routines nobody planned.
The rest will take time.
Which is one thing a bird that does not migrate has plenty of.