Far too long since I’ve written anything. I’ve been quite busy, mostly with baking activities that I’ll have to ‘backfill’ as I get a chance…
But yesterday, finally got a decent day to put the blue parafoil up at the Tauranga waterfront, along with the GoPro camera. I had, earlier in the day, ‘re-rigged’ the Picavet camera stabilising rig (see an earlier posting) using a heavier line – not that it needed to be stronger, but I was getting tired of untangling the finer line I had originally used.
What I was hoping was that I could have it in the air long enough to get recorded by a Tauranga webcam. That camera takes a picture every 10 minutes through the day – and I figured if I had the kite up, it should be visible when I get home to check that webcam. And it was – you can see the blue shape appearing to float above the wharf off to the right side of the picture!
The flight itself was not particularly long (a bit over 4 minutes of film) and somewhat limited as I only had a small roll of line, so couldn’t put it especially high into the air. Given it is central city and not a very big place to fly a kite, that’s probably a good thing.
You can see me launching the kite. I had it relatively low in the air, up until the 3 minute mark when I have let out all the line. I see there’s something of a scratch of some such on the lens, just to the left of centre – I try not to look at it…
And naturally, when I was finished, I went to have a beer at the Crown and Badger!