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Thursday, 2 May 2013

Month's tour of france paragliding & seakayaking

Some more pictures of todays flying, the lake, mountains, and a big sense of freedom, to get away from earth's grip relying on cloth, lines and the power of the sun.

Month's tour in france paragliding & sea Kayaking

Midnight ferry from Dover to Dunkirk on Tuesday evening, docked in Dunkirk 3 AM french time drove for 2 hours then head down until about 9.30 then spent the rest of the day travelling south east down to Annecy very popular area for paragliding.

going this time of year the season is just about started and there is not the usual mass of people that you would find say in july august. Below are some photo's taken today using the Forclaz take off. Absolutely fantastic start to the day blue sky sun out made it to take off just after mid day, waited until all the SIV GROUPS HAD TAKEN OFF AS WELL AS THE TANDEM PILOTS.

take off was into light thermals but as the afternoon went on they got more punchy and had some good climb rates. at around 3.30 big over development to the south storm clouds brewing everybody headed for the doussard landing field, within an hour thunder and lightening heavy rain within an hour blue skies again.

All in all a great first day

Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Today's Flying

Flying East Coast Between Filey & Bempton Cliffs

A Few Photo's of Todays Flying

Monday, 12 November 2012

Wasaga Beach Ontario

Sun setting over Wasaga beach Ontario I have been informed that this beach is the largest fresh water beach in Canada, it just goes on for miles

Im over here to do some sight seeing and kayaking but all the outfitters so far are closed for the winter season, so on goes the sight seeing such a beutiful place.

Badlands Ontario Canada

Badlands” is a geologic term for an area of soft rock devoid of vegetation and soil cover that has become molded into a rolling landscape of rounded hills and gullies. Such areas are rare in Ontario and this is one of the best examples. They exhibit the reddish hue of the Queenston Shale that forms them; the iron oxide in the shale produces this colour. The narrow greenish bands that can be seen throughout the shale are due to the change of red iron oxide to green iron oxide brought on by the circulating groundwater. The relatively soft shale is essentially clay and is easily eroded by water. This site was acquired by the Ontario Heritage Foundation in 2000 and is under the care of the Bruce Trail Association.

The Cheltenham Badlands is one of the best examples of badland topography in Ontario, making it an Area of Natural and Scientific Interest (ANSI). Around the turn of the century, land clearing and livestock grazing caused the erosion of the underlying red shale, leaving a hummocky network of exposed trenched gullies on the lower slopes of the Niagara Escarpment.

Monday, 5 November 2012

Canada

Just at york station heading to London to catch my flight over to Canada.
Hoping to get some kayaking on and around some of the lakes.
My base will be Aliston west of Toronto. If anybody from Canada looking at the blog can advise on places of interest it would be much welcomed.
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