Mount Borah has many Launches there are about 3 others you can't see. 
Yesterdays task went around Lake Keepit, (~62 mile triangle) which is a famous for sailplane flights. The area was a covergence zone between the coastal NE, and continetal SW airmasses yesterday. 
Here is the town of Manilla - where I landed next to the cabin where I am staying. 
Godfrey's LZ has some really nice eagle carvings.
Looking north, Blay in the foreground. 
Davis and a few of us test flew Malibu's. Very Docile glider. 
A few Sea Eagles were flying around with us. They were not at all agressive, a pleasure to fly with unlike Wedge Tailed Eagles. 
Blay over Stanwell Park town contemplating how low his sprogs really are. 
Huge thanks to Curt and Louis for hosting a delicious BBQ.
Here are the overall winners Curt, Jonny, Steve B, Blay, Corinna, Lucas, Scott, Artur & Phil. 
In the female catagory Corinna, Julia and Hadewych. Heather and Carol are also pilots. 
Clare, our team captin picked up the best driver award, (she really was fantastic). Rodger picked up the TIWTIWGD award, wind tech'ing on a day when no-one else flew. 
The climbs were good despite the wind and roudy air. I took the first start clock. 
I battled along the course catching pilots that had passed me then being passed again. It was weird spending an hour to go 10kms and almost sinking out at the turnpoint, then 40mins to scratch back up and go the 22kms to goal. Stranger still was there were only two gliders there. It turns out they hadn't flown the task! I was first in goal, Blay was right under and behind me, he took the second start gate. Turns out I came second for the day!! I was pretty stoked since I have been making an effort to fly more efficiently recently, and up until now it hasn't been working so well. I also got to fly with Corrina and Lucas quite a bit which was fun.
The hail was about marble sized and fell for 15 mins, that was preceeded by some pretty heavy rain. 
Our plans of mountain biking around Falls Creek were starting to look a bit damp. Below is ruined castle which is an exposed Basalt inclusion. Hexagonal or pentagon colomned were formed, 20 million years ago or so. 
The highlands up there remind me of Scotland. Though the naming isn't nearly so romantic, this body of water has the rather uninspiring name of rocky point storage. 
It is quite pretty though. Lots of heather and late spring flowers. 
We rode down a trail next to Langford Aquaduct. 
Across a creek or two. 
And on up to a point where we could see Shannonvale, by which time we were all quite tired enough. Its been a while since I rode a hardtail offroad. 
Fun day !
Looking down at the visitors center, and Launch is down and to the left. 
The task had us start 25km from the turnpoint Mt Feathertop (second highest peak in the state of Victoria). Then back north to Mt. Porepunkah, on to Dedarang and back to Mt Beauty airstrip for 124km. Looking back over Mt Feathertop. 
I bombed out at the third turpoint having chosen the wrong line.
Mount Buffalo can be seen to the left and northwest.
It is a national park and quite spectacular. It even has some hang gliding launches next to the visitors centor building (you can see in the centre if you look closely). Clicking on the picture expands it.
I took the first start at 2pm and did really well upto the 3rd and last turnpoint, then I got low and floundered a bit. I made goal, but scored zero for the day I believe. I strayed into airspace. With the resolution of my GPS it looked like I would have been outside, but as I went on course I didn't recheck and the hassel was problematic. I could not really see the airspace track on the screen because it was blocked by all the waypoints. To compound the problem I had auto-zoom on which retakes control of your screen after a few seconds. 
Since landing I have learned how to hide all the waypoints from the map view, disable the auto-zoom feature, and make the airspace tracklog black and my tracklog white so I can see them both... Lesson learned. I suppose it is not until I try to use these tools for something new, that I realize that there are inadequacies, deficiencies and better ways of doing things. It is neat to have the Airspace as a tracklog that you can see! 
Many of us flew anyway, this is my team mate Neil on his Aeros combat with Mt Bogong in the shade behind him. 
So, no results yet...
A few of us climbed straight up to Cloudbase. Here is the town Mount Beauty, where we are based for a week or so. 
Warren was flying with a mounted camera and we tried to get some pictures over Mount Bogong. 
Here is the Kiewa Valley. The flying area looks and feels similar to Woodrat. 
The Kiewa River is a good spot to cool down after a hot brake down. This is the team I am flying with this week, Warren, Niel and Roger. 
Jonny beat Blay for the day by 41 points, but needed 3 more! Blay wins the comp! 
Here is the team I have been flying with. Len has been driving and giving me some great direction, he is one of the top pilots in Australia, taking a short break from flying. I am very lucky to have gotten into his team, Guy has been kicking my ass daily. Geoff has been flying well too. Laura is keeping us in line. Between them I have had a few outback tours of the local flora and fauna. The outback may start a bit farther west... Everyone has there own interpretation of where the "black stump" is. 
Final Day today and Blay has only 40 points on Jonny, so that should be a pretty good race. I hope to make goal and maybe get some arrival points :) The winds seem light, it would be nice to do a triangle.
Lower down the thermals were torn apart by the wind. I sank out 25km from goal, but for a personal best of 151.5 miles. 
After breaking down I noticed two wild Emu wondering around. I am told this is a TSR (Travelling Stock Route), which I presume to mean a route for migratory animals. 
Here is a tip I picked up in Gulgong last year. Write down the task on a roll of masking tape. 
Then stick it to the base tube. This came in handy yesterday when I miss programmed my GPS to Gulgarg, instead of Gulgong. I would have noticed anyway with the goal being 200 miles away instead of 80, but its a good tip anyway. 
