We drove up the volcano but missed the last cable car to the top. Had a nice pizza in the north of the island....Drove through cloudbase twice...
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Short Flight
I was too late taking off and found no thermals, I was more concerned with landing safely in the small downhill sloping crosswind area that I had to land safely in. I pulled it off and I am a bit less worried about it now... The local tandem operator said I was the second Delta to fly here in 10 years, i can understand why!
Cool
There was a Paraglider soaring the apartment block and he landed only 500m away in a small patch of scrub.... I went to chat with him and arranged to fly Taucho with him the next day....
Fun
I was just starting to realise I could have some fun with the whole under water photography thing when I looked up!
Friday, September 07, 2007
Sunday, September 02, 2007
Carnivale
After a week of non flying and grey skies karl decided to head south and get away from the miserable weather. The last day he was here we went to the notting hill carnival and it was excellent. Lots of happy poeple, huge rivers of people where you just got pushed along. Wicked sound systems with bass that make your vision blur. Even the sun made an appearance and it was a great day. Karl is in Spain with Jason at the moment, We are hoping to head to Tenerife soon.
Tourists
In the end we did allot of touristy things like taking panoramic shots.
It has been the most non happening summer I can remember. I miss the sun.
Karl
After missing out in Switzerland I convinced Karl to jump on the train over from Paris to see a bit of the UK. I was hoping we could go and fly somewhere. As the English paraglider pilot so aptly put it "Go back to Australia, England is Pants for flying" We did some getting blown out and some sitting on the hill waiting for the wind to pick up and alot of marveling at the incredibly optimistic and cheerful forecasts that the BBC
provides.
Back to UK
After a wet week in Aarau with family it was back to the UK. One straight drive leaving basel around 6.30pm after saying a quick bye to by cousin. I just made the 1AM ferry in Dunkirk and was home in bed by around 5.30am . An easy drive the whole way at 130kph
Furkapass
After the forecast deteriorated I decided to take a short cut back to Aargau over the furkapass. In the dark motorbikes passed me fast enough to shake the suzuki and coaches executed 30 point turns to get around the narrow hairpins. Every kilometre is another sign advising the motorcyclists of their impending death.
T/O
Today we were on the opposite side of the valley. There was another inversion and even the eagles were flapping. The debate was when to fly, in theory max heating is going to be around 2pm, but it still looked dead out there. In the end we all flew and found a few bubbles but no thermals and landed in the same bombout field in the valley.
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