Japan -day 11: Kuratake

We met Rick at 0900 at the designated meeting point/ parking for the drive to launch. He had brought along Pete and 2 Japanese pilots. Later Leanne would also join us. Furthermore he had his tandem glider, so Yuko could make a flight with him.Kuratake is a most senic flying site with great views of the Amakusa cosatline and the outlying islands!

Kuratake launch

Yuko's flight lasted around 40' and she liked it very much :-)

As the wind stedily became stronger and out of the West all of us (except Rick) landed after a while. Rick headed east taking advantage of the wind and landed short of Misuni.

The rest of the day was spent driving along Amakusas coast and enjoying the views.

As Rick was predicting toworrow should be as good (or even better) than today, I decided to stay another night on Amakusa. This time we lodged directly at the Onsen...