sailing

Week two with Ylva and Tina aboard. Whitehaven Beach has 99.7% pure silica sand, which makes it pretty white and amazingly soft. Its pretty windy(20knots) when we visit but I decided to fly Solo anyway and end up getting some pretty nice shots of Tina enjoying the beach.

A perfect weather window presented itself so I took off on a solo mission out to Hook Reef, about 8 hours sail from the mainland. Four days of amazingness followed! Great sunsets, good spearfishing and some encounters with sharks made for an epic adventure. The sea was calm enough that I could...

We sail to the amazing little Island of Middle Percy, park Nautilus in the lagoon and settle in for 2 weeks of tropical island bliss, coconuts and all. Solo came along too.

Captain Cook came ashore on May 1770 so they just called the place, Town of 1770. A very beautiful place though and plenty of interesting places to fly my Solo.

I have had my 3DR Solo about a month and took my first excursion outside of an athletic field with no obstacles. I have learned a lot reading posts on this forum so thought you folks might get a kick out of my first flight over my sailing club at slightly too low an altitude. The Solo survived...