Living on the Port Hills

The last few days I've been camped up on the Dyers Pass road overlooking both Lyttelton Harbour and Christchurch city. I managed a fair bit of sloping at both Cass ridge and at a better site at Allandale - although due to a fair amount of turbulence (caused by proximity of adjacent landforms) I was a bit disappointed. None of the sites around Chch were as good as flying the Mount in a brisk NE wind but as they say, beggars can't be choosers. What was rather nice tho, the views and sunsets! Here's a panorama overlooking Chch at twilight, and the view out each side of van windows from the Allandale saddle.

Over the last two days, I managed to fly every plane onboard! Starting with no wind in the morning I maidened the newly completed Harvard 3D foamie I built from scratch whilst on-the-road ; then, as the wind came up I got to fly the Slanky, JW, Sleek, and the MiniSleek. Later I even dragged out the Vampire for some straffing runs over the ships in Lyttleton Harbour :-) Here's the finshed Harvard. Would be nice to get some graphics on it but they will have to wait for now.

Today, I bid farewell to Christchurch and head further south.