We got there at 10 but it was light south. As boredom set in Ian took to fixing my Kestral wind meter.

We could see the white caps way out there but they were taking their time in coming in.

The upper surface of Ian's Gemini. Pretty clean, wouldn't you say.

After sitting around for nearly 8 hours and each of us taking a sled ride to deal with the boredom, the wind finally arrived. Ian launched into about 15-16 mph at 5:45 and stayed up! Here he shares the air with a redtail hawk.

By cranking tight turns right over the south end of the launch bowl, he was able to keep it in the air even though it wasn't that strong.

Floating along nice and slow in the light conditions, working every puff.

Here you can see how low Ian was having to work. But he did a great job.

Hanging on in the slowly building conditions, again turning right over the surge of lift on the south end of the ridge.

It's now after 6 but the wind is building. What a beautiful place to get your first soaring flight.

A local redtail hawk hovers in front of launch. You can see the wind building now on the water.

Getting a bit higher now. It looks really nice here but it actually appeared to be a bit bumpy and holey from the northerly cross wind.

I finally just laid down in the grass and took some shots from the relative quiet of the rotor. Ian's about 40 minutes into his flight here.

As it picked up and Ian got higher I had to zoom in to get a close up. Notice the low lighting on the glider.

Getting a bit of altitude now. When I took this shot he was just about hovering.

After getting a signal from Ian that he wanted to land, I ran down the hill and shot this from the beach. Check it out. With the moon in there even.