Just south of Sydney, NSW are the Cronulla Dunes:  The best place to be when it's a PUMPING (20 knots on the water) south breeze.  This morning, we all went up to Bald Hill for some tandem flights but found winds over 30 knots.  Six hundred feet lower, at sea-level the winds were down to 20 knots.  

Above:  Jonas giving Alex Cuddy, another advanced pilot, "a hand" on his launch.  

A few seconds later (above):  A fully-comitted launch assistant!  

This flying circus routine was planned for a quick glide down, but Alex couldn't help himself and had to make a turn into the lift band.  Jonas looked "at home" with the flight.  I reckon a small percentage of our tandem passengers actually think THIS is how it works when they open their gift voucher for a tandem flight!

Above:  Toni, a hang gliding student from Sydney, refining his launch technique with Conrad Loten

Steve Moyes, Pablo, Kathryn, Conrad, and Jonny Durand were also dune-ing with us at Cronulla today.  Not bad for a Monday!  

The highlight for me today was flying way up the beach, into the cross-head wind, where the dune gets very small.....and then turning back (cross-tail) and zooming along (ground speed) just above the sand with airspeed^? that maximised lift, but was just above stall speed.  Awesome!

The boys are downloading their GoPro Camera's now.  I'm sure there'll be some good air-to-air footage.