We very much appreciate the opportunity to continue to fly here at
Wilotree Park and at the same time to keep our distance from other people and
pilots. This evening I asked our driver to please stay 6' away from anyone here.
I felt uncomfortable asking him to model appropriate behavior.

Belinda and I have been keeping our distance from others and demonstrate how to
do this. For me it comes naturally. Others are upset about it.

We are fortunate to have light winds so that we can do out and return tasks
without having to get a retrieve.

The day started with less fog than the day before but close enough that we
worried that it would be a repeat with a big blue hole and tough climbs to a low
cloud base. This despite the soarcast, which was much like the previous days'
one.

But actually the clouds looks lot more substantial and they were right over us.
not spaced out into the distance and they had actual flat bottoms, which in some
cases were dark enough to indicate some height to the clouds.

None the less it took me three launches to get going, while others had no
trouble. climbing to 4,000' at 600 fpm. I usually launch first because that
keeps me from trying to catch up with others and I'm more patient that way. Now
I was way behind as the pilots ahead had a tail wind to put them far away from
me.

The task was to the airfield at Lake Panasoffkee to the northwest, east
southeast to the Turnpike and 33 and back.

On my third try, I quickly climbed to 4,200' and took off chasing Larry and John
and Pedro. I was getting 300 to 500 fpm climbing up to 4,600' going from one
good looking cloud to the next. It appeared that I might have a chance to catch
up because the rates of climb that they were calling out were half what I was
getting.

I headed out over the forested area south of the prisons to the best looking
clouds and a small fire to boot. Suddenly nothing was working. I headed for some
cu's out to the north northeast and had to work 50 fpm from 1,500'. I needed to
stay up to be able to make it to an open paved road.

Climbing to 2,400' at 80 fpm I decided to try to get upwind of a dark looking
cloud to get some better lift. Big mistake. I was soon down to 600' looking to
land by the paved road under the dark cloud well downwind of its edge and
shadow.

I came over an area that I got up over a few days previously and there was lift
there again. Larry, Pedro and followed by John were passing over my head having
made the turnpoint at Lake Panosoffkee that I couldn't get to now.

Climbing at a little less than 200 fpm I got back up off the floor to 2,200' and
moved over to a better area under the cu's to get 230 fpm to 3,800'. That
allowed me to move over to even better looking cu's and eventually find 500 fpm
to 4,900'. It was a much different world up there. All that scrambling around to
stay up and then get up took about an hour as Larry, Pedro and then John were
back at the field with Larry heading south under a cloud street.

There was a cloud street all the way back to Wilotree Park so I ignored the
turnpoint at Turn 33.

Hopefully light winds again tomorrow and hopefully more people will be aware of
the pandemic.