Current Location!

At the moment the caravan is parked on the field at the bottom of Liz's garden. I have a pond a stones throw away and the trees provide plenty of shade for the solar panel and wind shadow for the wind turbine. The caravan is a new improved whiter version, never finished of course, but slowly reverting back to a habitable state.

Perth to Newy and Back....

Ok, I have been very slack. My best excuse is that my internet connection has been unreliable.
Here is the Update.
I drove from Perth to Newcastle to collect my caravan from Jamie's garden. I left on Sat Afternoon and returned on Sat afternoon exactly one week later. I drove 18Hrs a day averaging about 110kph on the way there and about 70kph on the way back. The car used about 9.5Lt/100Km on the way there and about 18Lt/100km on the way back with the caravan. I enjoyed the drive and listed to alot of audio books and music. I came back via Albany leaving the Caravan there.
A few weeks later I helped Matty and Liz move down from Perth to their new home in Albany, where my van is currently located...

Perth - SA Border

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We went to fly dougies again yesterday. It was strong and rough air. When we arrived matty stood on a bee and was stung. When we left I stood on a bee and was stung. Odds? 40'C today

Dougies

Matty flew my fun at Dougies, it was lovelly ssw for 20mins and then it went E and became rough.

Matty made his first video of the footage from Albany and Dougies, find it here:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6stj3uFAmP8

Shellies

Sandpatch

Great Day at Cott

It was supposed to be SW it was WSW most of the day. Everyone flew. Awesome day.

Saturday at Bakewell

Everybody went to bakewell. Some flew early in the smooth morning SE and we flew after lunch in quite thermic southerlies. I flew my dear fun as it is all my back will lift at the moment and Matty flew his Pegasus. We are planning to go for a fly in the country tomorrow with the power harnesses, should be 4 of us up at once!

Cott Again

Matty and I had a good morning at Cott, it was off to the south and ended up getting too strong in the afternoon.

Awesome day at Cott

We got up around 7.30am this morning and made it to Cott very early. The winds were lighter than forecast and mostly WNW. I flew for an hour and top landed early on when it was light. Then as the day warmed the air became less bouyant and more turbulant, but still fun ;-) It was 20knots much of the afternoon and great fun. Matty flew his colourfull Mars... A good Cott day.

Nasa Morning Glory Footage

Interesting story and photos & video of roll clouds during storms in the
USA.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/11oct_undularbore.htm?list1043252

Bye Bye Tenerife

Back to the UK. One last pretty sunset and a last photo as I waited for my flight at the south airport, accompanied as always by my good friend caffeine.

Send to Flikr

After a long time using Picasa for managing the photos on my laptop and Flikr for online storage and dreaming of a send to flickr button, I found one! It works great and can even tag and resize photos, it is fast and stable and thank you so much to the Open Source coders responsible for the plugin that made my dream come true. Find it here :

http://picasa2flickr.sourceforge.net/index.html

As you might expect for something that links Yahoo and Google products and is written by a third party there are bound to be a few potential issues, but nothing dangerous or drastic, just read the latest notes on the site.

Nigel was the man who got me through my PADI course with no problems at all. I can highly recomend him to anyone visiting tenerife and wanting to go diving. He specialises in one to one training and has an excellent teaching style and a sense of humour too.
My pentax w20 survived being taken down to 7meters despite only being rated at 1.5m , below 5m the buttons are held in my the water pressure but as long as you make sure it is turned on and ready to go before you get too far down it still takes great pictures and does not leak a drop internally. It is not the worlds greatest camera, by previous canon took better quality photos for the same meagpixels, but its quality is fine for an amatuer like me and the fact that it is nearly indestructable is far more important in my case ;-)

Alcala

Once I decided that I was not going flying anymore I needed something to do. My snorkeling had made me curious to see more of the ocean and I always meant to get my PADI open water licence. I dived here in Alcala harbour a few times and saw sea snakes (eels) and turtles and many large fish as well as the usual plastic bags and beer bottles that are no doubt now spread over every inch of the planet.