We’ve got more flexibility, but not endless time this week. Not enough to go to a site which takes up the whole of the day, although most sites inland were flyable today. So a morning’s work for the conference and then off to Santa Brigida.

We met Jordi walking back up for his car after a top to bottom, so we turned around and fetched his glider for him so he could have another go. It was nicely flyable when we got there and Geoff and Jordi boated about while I had a snooze. I am having an insomnia phase and it caught up with me today – I couldn’t keep my eyes open. Marginally more refreshed, I got ready, launched and easily climbed 1000 feet. The thermals were big, smooth and about 1.9m/s max. I got through the inversion and spotted a group of migrating birds flying along the valley. There must have been about sixty, flying in a big V formation. I tried to fly out to them to have a closer look, but they diverted and I hit lots of sink, so had to abandon chasing them and headed back to the ridge. Shame, as I still don’t know what type of birds they were.

We flew for a few hours off and on and then packed up to rush home to check the conference. 432 delegates now and more signing up each day!

See photos of today.

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