I hear they've been flying in the rain in Queensland, and it's been pretty windy down in Bright with a few good days squeezed in, Brett had a good flight on Thursday and Heike was attacked (repeatedly and for several minutes) by an Eagle. Not a fun encounter at all but it reminded me, on Tuesday's flight, I thought I was going to get rolled by an Eagle for the very first time. James and I were thermalling over the NE launch on Borah with two wedgies, I was watching one above and to my left and at one point he tucked in his wings and dove towards me but he pulled away at the last moment without contact. I actually felt pretty excited about the idea, though I'm sure my sentiment would have changed the first time he hit me. If not definitely by the tenth time he hit me I'd be getting mildly agitated.
This morning James and I were standing outside (it stopped raining for a few minutes) an there was a steady north-easter and we remarked how nice it would be to just go up for a bit of ridge-soaring. Then it started raining again.
Headed home tomorrow.
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