cubley@dalby: It's raining

The pub crawl commences

It’s raining in Queensland, and I mean really raining. Looks like we might have had an inch of rain (25mm for the younger folk) and we are told that the heavy rain hasn’t arrived yet! Certainly doesn’t take long for the ground to turn boggy.

The prediction is that the rain will have moved through by tomorrow but chances are that we won’t be able to use the airfield for a day or two.

We had the pilots meeting this morning, nothing too controversial, no yelling or tantrums – bit boring really. Chatting about talking on the radio, whether this was collusion between pilots. A tongue in cheek motion from OBH that pilots found talking be disqualified for the day – thankfully this motion lost –although a few in support! General consensus that we should get the ITC fund back out of general revenue – can’t imagine a lot of support from the board for that.

We had lunch at “The Coffee Club” and heading for the Trotter’s place for dinner tonight. Tomorrow we may drive down to Boonah to have a look at that site – a couple of hours drive they tell me. It’s a tough life at a gliding comp.

Some photos showing the water when we arrived, after it dried up and now the falling rain. Guess we can look forward to low cloudbases and soggy thermals once we start flying again.

I am over my depression now – took at least two glasses or red last night at the Chinese restaurant., Now can’t wait to get flying again!

photo 1 - the day we arrived, water over the airfield tie down