Flugtag on Sydney Harbour

The RedBull Flugtag (flying day) arrived in Sydney for the first time yesterday so Sue and I went to join the estimated 50,000 people around Farm Cove to watch the event. This is where a collection of imaginative and wacky flying machines jump off a high ramp into the harbour below to see how far they can fly. There were 34 competitors in all, coming in many different shapes and sizes, which made for an entertaining afternoon as they plummeted into the water.

We met some of our English and South African expat friends whose sons were participating as one of the flying teams and they had a reasonable 'flight' - their 'clock plane' took a good arc (below) and held together well when it hit the water!


Earlier in the day we had gone to watch Rebecca play her first match for one of the local soccer teams that she's joined and they played well to get a 2-2 draw. On the way, we'd also dropped Caroline off at the Mall where she was starting a new job at a surf shop, having recently left the pharmacy where she had worked, to get a change of scene.