Soaring at Mt Oates

It was a very rare day today - the evening wind was nearly straight on the hill at home. Nath had dropped in after work so we headed up and, after some waiting around for it to die down to launchable speeds, we launched. No problems with the windspeed once in the air (I think the launch is in some sort of compression zone) and we didn't lose height flying out to the (narrow) lift band. Only got 70m above takeoff, but by the time you're that far out the front of the hill you feel a lot higher...
...because the ground is much lower. We watched the sun go down...

...from our comfy armchairs high above the ground...

...and then glided down for dinner. Nice, very nice...