The winds were just enough to sustain soarable flight when Armand Acchione and I made it out to Merewether on Wednesday morning. The wind was out of the south at this southeast facing site.

The winds had picked up by the time that Adam Parer showed up half an hour later and we were all setting up. Clouds filled the southwest quadrant of the sky with cu's streaming past us just a little too far to the west. Soon the launch was alive with the activity of pilots putting their gliders together and getting off the hill.

While there were few whitecaps on the ocean the wind lines were obvious and we were getting a few hundred feet over launch. The pilots flying Airborne C4's were able to to dive along the beach and make it upwind to Glenrock Lagoon and work the hillside there. I was in an Airborne Fun 190 and I felt like a paraglider in this wind. I guess that I shouldn't have been so quick to not take the C4 to the beach.

With over a dozen pilots in the air we had spread out, some now down by Newcastle and Adam upwind at the knob by Dudley. The wind had rotated twenty degrees around to the SSE and the white caps were visible.

After many attempts to go upwind I jumped over the back following Bar beach and just getting to the car park at the end of the beach where the lift started again.  This got me back up on the high cliffs at Newcastle. Pilots were spread out everywhere.

I wasn't sure that I could make it back upwind to the Dixon Park landing area but I saw a paraglider playing just above the slope there and figured if he could find lift there, I could. I came in just above him and was able to get high enough to make it to the park LZ.

The LZ filled up and pilots were happy with another day at the beach.