It’s All Saints, so a public holiday here. We went out flying and took our friend Debbi along. The forecast was a little inconclusive, so we waited until the 11.30am update, which confirmed that we should go to Santa Brigida. As we got there is was sunny with only a few clouds, but as we were getting ready the sky started to cloud over. Wayne was off first while it was still thermic, but said it was bumpy. I launched and found it lumpy, and with less sun, not as lifty.

After that, the sky looked different in every direction you looked – some wave, alto cumulus, stratos, etc. there were two layers of cloud moving in opposite directions, which made the sky change fast and made for lots of interesting patterns.

Dominique from Niviuk came out for a fly on his ultralight gear (the whole lot just 4.5kg), and we had a chance to catch up on news. He flew down while we had a picnic, but then it started spitting, so we packed up and took Debbi home. I wasn’t feeling very well, but Wayne has never stood on a volcano before, so we took him up Montsacopa, one of the many overlooking Olot. It has a church on it and the views from all sides are nice. We even got to see a full rainbow over the mountains and the a spectacular sunset to finish the day. Shame my camera doesn’t do sunsets very well.

See photos of today.

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