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 Floating,
Flight and Frolick
Four
pilots, their paramotors, an a 50 foot catamaran sailboat in Mexico |
Potluck
PPG, Getting There
Oct 17, 2006 Photos
by Jeff Hamann & Jeff Goin
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A
full story will likely appear in the January issue of Powered Sport Flying but this
provides a quick glance at a few of the amazing sites that make only a
part of the adventure. They were enough.
Arrival day revealed the Wrath of hurricane force winds.
Only a couple of us flew and then very briefly since the winds were
offshore and switchy. But the drive from Loreto to Magdalena Bay provided
awesome in-flight scenery. |
To The Beach
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Now
to the beach. We flew our paramotors to each new location while
Captain Tom sailed (motored, actually) the boat behind us. The dingy
served as our sand to shore transport. |
Soaring
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It
was the most amazing soaring experience of my life. We discovered this
amazing ridge, complete with a motor landing spot in the middle and
proceeded to splay our wings in and about the succulent ridge lift. There
was never a need to launch from up high, we could simply run from the beach into
smooth, strong lift. |
The Days Blurred: Not More Flying?
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Morning
and afternoon. Every day. Sunshine, steady building wind, easy reverses
and flying over these spectacular eyefuls of landscape. After 4 days of
this Phil wandered up to the main cabin mumbling "are we going flying
again?"
He was probably the first one aloft.
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Living
Like Kings
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Last Minute Flights & Snorkling
   
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The
Gloria Maris is minded fabulously by Capt Tom and his wife Liliana who
also happened to be splendid cooks.
After 8 days of this, we'd had enough. There was a
hurricane coming, we had to get to Loreto, and, there was much
Mexican food yet to be consumed.
Hurricane Lane was a bad shot and missed Loreto by
several hundred miles. Whew! We went snorkeling after yet more flying and
finally called it a trip after 10 days.
Thanks to Jeff Hamann who organized everything. It was a
blast spending time with pilots Jeff H., Phil Russman, and Michael
O'Daniel.
Now to peel off more sunburned skin. |
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