Day 5 - Task 4
Thinking of looking for a spade, but hang on, what’s that noise? It’s the island eating machine! Oh joy, now we only have to be careful of splash back for fear of a blue arseJ There are certain times of day when you cant drop the kids off at the blue lagoon as there seems to be a force field that you bounce off as soon as you open the door.
Due to a little to much wind a straight race to a goal 67.4km away is called – 3 Arrows will not be happy today.
The usual happened today. We went round in circles, right this time, and then went on glides. Some glides were better than others towards Lake Okeechobee and the sea effect would bite them. 3 Arrows and Sad Lad (me) were two of the victims. What went wrong?
The view was priceless thermaling over the lake, over a small fire with eagles flying through your side wires at 5500ft! For me this experience was a part of hang gliding that has been missing for a while. Ok, we needed one more half climb and we will be in to goal super quick! One glide to the deck later and 3 Arrows is not happy. Why did we not see the signs? Because there weren’t any! The perfect cu was there, three of them in fact and not one was working!
Our field was massive and right next to the main road which meant we had people stopping to ask if we needed a ride – amazing! Would this happen in the UK? (I don’t think so). Clarkson said the people of Florida are ” Fat and ignorant and rude” Bull. Maybe some are a little on the large side (but they are in the UK too) but the people I met were most certainly not ignorant or rude.
Sue and George McD were with us as soon as we were finished packing up and then off we went to the beer shop, for ice cream of course! 3 Arrows and Mr Whippy cannot go a day without the creamy stuff as we are finding outJ
We pick the rest of the team up from the goal field where there were smiles all round then a call into the yellow arches on the way back and another ice cream shop.
Results
119.2km
Thinking of looking for a spade, but hang on, what’s that noise? It’s the island eating machine! Oh joy, now we only have to be careful of splash back for fear of a blue arseJ There are certain times of day when you cant drop the kids off at the blue lagoon as there seems to be a force field that you bounce off as soon as you open the door.
Due to a little to much wind a straight race to a goal 67.4km away is called – 3 Arrows will not be happy today.
The usual happened today. We went round in circles, right this time, and then went on glides. Some glides were better than others towards Lake Okeechobee and the sea effect would bite them. 3 Arrows and Sad Lad (me) were two of the victims. What went wrong?
The view was priceless thermaling over the lake, over a small fire with eagles flying through your side wires at 5500ft! For me this experience was a part of hang gliding that has been missing for a while. Ok, we needed one more half climb and we will be in to goal super quick! One glide to the deck later and 3 Arrows is not happy. Why did we not see the signs? Because there weren’t any! The perfect cu was there, three of them in fact and not one was working!
Our field was massive and right next to the main road which meant we had people stopping to ask if we needed a ride – amazing! Would this happen in the UK? (I don’t think so). Clarkson said the people of Florida are ” Fat and ignorant and rude” Bull. Maybe some are a little on the large side (but they are in the UK too) but the people I met were most certainly not ignorant or rude.
Sue and George McD were with us as soon as we were finished packing up and then off we went to the beer shop, for ice cream of course! 3 Arrows and Mr Whippy cannot go a day without the creamy stuff as we are finding outJ
We pick the rest of the team up from the goal field where there were smiles all round then a call into the yellow arches on the way back and another ice cream shop.
Results
119.2km
1 What’s a tent?
2 Posh Bloke
7 3 Arrows
16 Semi Dogleg Fred
17 3 Arrows
18 Contented Lad
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