12:30 pm at the west car park. The wind was” W ” 3m/s - 5m/s.
Looking up a the clouds they looked really pretty.
A few minutes later I geared up and took off but the first hour was hard to get any good height.
The thermals were strong and turbulent and quite often the wind slackened.
After over 2 hours flying nothing changed, I was still at the West Car Park.
3pm and I thought about landing but as I flew out from the ridge, maybe 200m above the ground I found good lift up the cloud base.
When I finish turning I was already over the windmills just before Bunclody too far to come back so I headed in an easterly direction and began looking for thermals.
5km to the east of Bunclody I found small hill “Slieveboy”350m ASL a few minutes later I got good lift up to cloud base.
From this point I change direction to N.E. because I could see more hills located far from the sea and I believed that there might be more chance of thermals.
And it happened, there were thermals on almost every sunny slope.
At 4:50pm I passed Anna Hill and still heading N.E.
5:20pm I passed a river in Arklow and then on over Avoca with lots of height.
I only had one problem and that was that the clouds were getting bigger very quickly and the situation didn’t look nice.
So I made a decision about landing, I took an easterly direction form Avoca to Brittas Bay.
And landed close to N11 beside the Beehive Pub Co. Wicklow. Time for another pint.
And landed close to N11 beside the Beehive Pub Co. Wicklow. Time for another pint.
Rafal “Mac”
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