Brilliant evening flight!

I was planning all week to fly today because the weather forecast always said that the modest winds that we’ve been experiencing for the last few days would drop today, on top of which we would also have a perfect warm and sunny summer evening. It didn’t look that way, though, this morning because the cloud was low (almost a Scotch mist where I live) and the vis was poor. In the event, it turned out exactly as per the forecast and I was able do the flight that I’d already planned and loaded into my little Asus tablet.

In preparation, as Christian had not been able to arrange for a tractor with a large mower to cut the grass at Galinat, yesterday I took my new ride-on over there to do the job myself. It did pretty well but as Christian pointed out when I bumped into him today at Intermarché, when the grass is long, you can’t go too fast with a smaller machine. I told him that I’d already found that out by burning out the belt on my machine after only mowing half the width that I’d wanted to, but it was wide enough for me and 56NE, so off I went as planned at just after 6.30pm.

The route was similar to a flight I did before leaving for England on 2 August, except this time I went round clockwise, the opposite direction to previously. Funnily enough, just as before, I came across a bunch of ‘montgolfiers’ (hot air balloons) presumably carrying tourists in the southern-most section and gave them a wide berth like I did last time that fortunately did not mean going too far off my planned route. I didn’t take my camera and although I set up my little sports cam and started it up, it decided to turn itself off after 4 minutes, just as I was taking off. For some reason, although I used it lots of times during our west coast trip, I haven’t been successful in getting it to work properly since.

So what I’ve done is show below the pics that I took on 2 August, but in the reverse order to which I took them.

See, if I hadn’t mentioned it, you’d never have known as the only difference was that today there were a few more clouds to start off with than on 2 August. I’ll not bother trying to remember exactly where each shot was taken – I’ll just let the pictures speak for themselves 😉