Today was a rather poorer day than we might have expected from the forecast. The sky was blue, and no storms forcast, light winds but no cu. We called a 300 km task, Mullaley, Bellata, Lake Keepit, but in the end no one ventured far from the field. Todd Clark, Chris Carr, John Hoye, John Wakefield, Geoff Neely and Rod Hepburn (from Kuranda in QLD) flew. All the club gliders except the Puchatek flew today, but unfortunately not for long. The conditions were not easy - there were wave clouds about, and maybe the wave surpressed the lift in the Lake Keepit vicinity.
The Keepit Safari crew decided to head for home a day early, and flew in from Moree. Garry Speight and Ross Duncan in the twin astir managed to climb to 7000 after launching at Moree, and trickled to Lake Keepit after closely inspecting the airports at Narrabri and Bogabri. The Nimbus was less fortunate after starting somewhat later. They found that Garry had used up all the thermals and they consequently needed an iron one to make it back to Keepit.
After arriving back in his Decathlon, Justin Smith flew in the Grob with a friend who had been on the safari, and they had about an hour after a relight.
Once all the gliders were put away, we had a very convivial evening under the shadesail in front of the clubhouse. We searched our respective pantry shelves and managed to come up with the makings of a curry.
Lets hope the weather is a bit better for soaring tomorrow!
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