Sunday 23 June 2013

Dave's 6th Ever Flight

Today I took a pleasure flight around St Helena :)

 Shortly after take off from Francis Plain

Circling for Height, looking back at the landing ground

 Looking down at Harpers Valley, those reservoirs should have a little more water in them!!!

As should this one 
 High Knoll Fort

Redhill and Redgate

 Redgate a little Closer

 And closer again!!! [with Remi's foot]

 I can see my house from here :) Looking across Sapper Way and Cleughs Plain

Looking back across Half Tree Hollow

 And down to Donkey Plain

 Lower Cleughs Plain

 Plantation House and Pounceys above

 That's me!!! Well not me, but our shadow

 I think this is Guinea Grass

 Plantation and Pounceys again, it got a bit windy so we were changing direction a lot [as Remi steered us around]

 Guinea Grass again and Rosemary Plain

 The Zig Zag road between Sunnyside and Scotland

Scotland in Front, then Plantation and St Pauls Cathedral

 3 Peaks in the Distance, I think we're about level :)

 If you can see your house from here thank you for organising this for me
(Rosemary Plain)

 If you can see your house from here - get those reservoirs filled!
(Oaklands)

 Urm... this looks like Thomsons Hill, but I don't remember going that far...

 The Zig Zag road again with St Pauls and Half Tree Hollow Beyond
oh and hills in the background

 and again

I can see my house from Here:)

 See!

And Again!

 The Wind is heading for Ascension and [Remi is] taking us over New Ground

 High Knoll

Ah, heading back for the landing ground

Clay Gut 

 Half Tree Hollow

 Closer

And the wind [not the wind, Remi] takes us round in a circle so I can see my office. Nice wind [Remi] :) 

Am I going back to my house? 

 Clay Gut from the other side


Urm...

The front 2 fit nicely, except for the gap which the back one doesn't quite fill properly.
But I was in the air!!!

 Pounceys

 Empty Reservoirs again

Coming in to land 

 Or not

 Redgate again

White Gate

Plantation and St Pauls 

St Pauls and Pounceys 

 Coming in to Land

Coming in to land 

Last look at the View 

Have we missed?

No, we got back safely
(there is also a wing, but that was taken off)

Many thanks to Remi for taking me up :)


1 comment:

  1. No worries Dave, the pleasure was all mine!!
    photo 136 is indeed the eastern side of Thomson's Hill, we did go that far...
    I'd like a copyright fee on photo 120: it's MY shoe!
    Very nice photos, love the stitch
    Rémi
    PS: you make it sound like we went where the wind was taking us, I'd like to state "we went where I steered!!" ;)

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