Let the sun shine in

We had a nice visit in Oamaru walked to the Victorian part of town that has all of the old buildings and had a pint of beer and our mates had a soft drink, looked at some bizarre art gallery with faces on everything had some takeaways for dinner and chatted for a while then called it a night.
Woke to a beautiful morning had a coffee and gave the bike a quick wash to remove the salt spray, packed up and thanked our gracious hosts and roared off north.
We got to Omarama found a camping ground checked in and went to the airfield so I could do the gliding that I wanted to do. The folks at Southern Soaring were great, We met the pilot had some ground training hooked up to the tug plane and started off ,the tow rope snapped before we even moved 20 feet ! I thought maybe this is not going to be so good after all. A new rope was attached and off again, we climbed to 5000 feet with the tug and cut loose and went searching for thermals to soar in, found a bit of one and gained altitude and then I took the controls and got a feel for the craft, the sky was clear and visibility was great .
The pilot asked if I wanted to do a loop and some cantering , of course I did, returned control to him and went for it, what a rush .Took over and glided back towards the airstrip and then Don setup for the landing and we touched down it was the smoothest landing I ever had in any aircraft. I was not disappointed and will be going up again, it was a bit expensive but worth every dollar to see the Southern Alps and the lakes from that perspective. As I was walking back to the hut with a smile from ear to ear the first thing Kym said was “I guess you want to buy a glider” . She knows me so well !
We were going to the ‘Clay Cliffs’ but the road was all gravel, I started down it but it started to get deep and the bike really didn’t like it so we turned around and drove to Twizel not much there. We came back had showers and off to dinner.