Day 7 - Thought weather was getting better...

But no, raining again! Apparently this weather system has come from New South Wales (!) where it has caused big floods. I can believe it.

Yesterday on way back from Glen Orchy we stopped off at Coronet Peak Skiing area where there is a paragliding take-off. It looked good, a couple thousand foot above a wide flat valley floor. The cloud had lifted and we had good hopes of flying it. Only problem then was the wind blowing down the hill. Valley was full of cloud as we traveled through it today. Might have been a chance for flying at Kingston (south end of lake here) later in the day, so we did some walking around Queenstown in the morning and then headed to Kingston for the afternoon.

The weather did seem to clear there, but we could find no launch, the others didn't turn up, and besides the valley wind, being strong, would have kyboshed it all anyway. We did go for a walk up to a good view point over the village and watched the onbly thing of note here: The Kingston Flyer is a steam train that runs a couple of times a day. We didn't take the trip, but we did find out that the NZ Paragliding Acro event takes place here - in two weeks time! Apparently they tow up or get taken up intop the mountains, to launch, by helicopter. Mmmm.

Back to Queenstown for some fresh fish. Think we'll be giving up hope of flying and heading back north tomorrow...