Paragliding and Newfie's -Nurhan

Nurhan's take:

Believe it or not this is paragliding! Or more specifically we are having a BBQ whilst we wait for the conditions to moderate at Obrestad Havn (coast hang, white horses on the sea). We spent some hours ground handling gliders whilst we waited for the wind to drop. Kin was tied to a fence post whilst we played and waited; here his waiting is rewarded with a hot dog! (May took this picture, from left to right, Me, Kin, {transcended} Espen, & {Master} Lura).

Now recently there has been a lot of waiting for conditions and I seem to have 'perfected' a knack of being in the wrong place at the wrong time for flying conditions. Yesterday arrived at Gjesdal, to find hangliders conjugating over Vest Veggen (most likely at the altitude limit), and wayyyyyyyy too much wind for paragliders. Relocated to Reve:

(Kin is black b lob slightly above pilot and to left, Pilot is {Master} Lura). Where the wind picked up until even Master Lura packed up, followed shorty thereafter by Espen, & Øystein... my glider left the car, but not it's carry sack!

Think Kin likes these days as there's always folk around. He can keep track of everyone, he has to walk a little to get to these locations, and sometimes folk feed him grill food!!!

Still he does seem to get tired out from keeping an eye on everyone:

Sometimes he can't even make it out of the car!
He's not too keen on being picked up and he's too young to be allowed to jump in and out, fortunately he's extremely good at using Karma's ramp... when he wakes up.

Sadly the above picture is (probably) the last to be taken with my Nikon Coolpix S220 compact camera, as the LCD screen on the back only shows black... this is a pity as the picture quality from this camera is very good. Now I'[m back to (mainly) using an Olympus Mu 770 SW, waterproof, shock proof, crush proof.... and would be perfect if the picture quality was good... this is the second Olympus digital camera that I've owned and the reason that I bought the Nikon camera is because the picture quality from this camera is soooo poor (as was the Olympus before it). I also have a Canon 400 D SLR camera with standard, wide angle, and zoom lenses - this is an awsome camera, with excellent picture quality, but sadly doesn't fit into a pocket so you can carry it all the time without really noticing it until you need it.


Now four folk in the local area have keys to my house and  1 1/2 of these will keep an eye on the little chap when he's in alone, which means I get to go flying, white water paddling, climbing, skiing,... for day trips and know that even if I am delayed getting home he'll be okay.