After a spot of lunch the wind had picked up a little and more pilots were steadily arriving. Thermals were getting a little punchy at times, with better and better climbs beginning, eventually one came through with the names Dougal, Matthew and Mike on it. We all climbed steadily until Mike unfortunately dropped off the bottom to be snarled up by the fir tor monster.

Dougie had his racing head on again and quickly shot off in search of something better, whereas i amazingly had learnt one of my lessons and stayed near base in 0's just happy to be drifting along in my own little world! Another good climb was found near the beardown plantation, where i had to decide wether to follow dougie over the middle of the southern moors or head to princetown and over burrator. I chose the latter and was rewarded with a good but short lived climb over princetown and then a much slower climb over the east side of Burrator. The scenery was simply stunning.

By now i was drifting towards the quarries on lee moor, i estimated my glide to take me well over them. WRONG! at the point of no return the vario dropped off the bottom, so i made a quick escape to the east side where i found the thermal responsible for the massive down, resulting in massive up! phew!

A steady glide down saw me over tesco at lee mill, hoping that the huge car park would be working, not really! so i carried on a bit further where i did find something, hurrah! The climb was progressing nicely until an air south west plane appeared from nowhere heading what looked like straight for me. Some wild turning from me saw him pass about 300m from me, none the wiser! After the climb topped out i ran into the most awful sea breeze convergence which was really really nasty. i was glad to be heading for the ground and landed just south of Holbeton a couple of kms short of the sea, where it was probably soarable with the sea beeze!