We managed to get up in the air at Luderitz yesterday and explore the entire coast, really beautiful place so here's a few images from the air or the canal and the rest are here www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.667643176599247.1073741845.299496563413912&type=1

The turn downwind doesn't look so tight from the air!

looks like a 30degree change in course? Great pictures though! Didn't know the canal was that close to the water

great shots

love to ride this beast one day

Do I spy crop circles?

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eckas said..

Do I spy crop circles?

Donuts maaate! They love them in Africa as much as we do!

Actually got photos of someone in a rental car doing donuts from the air, better not post it till I find out who it is. 11am here and wind is 20knots, expected to be 30+ again then no wind for at least another week so heaps going on today. Been trying to post photos here from yesterday for 6 hours but internet drops out every 1 minute so one last try soon.

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HF said..

Actually got photos of someone in a rental car doing donuts from the air, better not post it till I find out who it is. 11am here and wind is 20knots, expected to be 30+ again then no wind for at least another week so heaps going on today. Been trying to post photos here from yesterday for 6 hours but internet drops out every 1 minute so one last try soon.

Cannot be anyone else than Albeau... He loves rental cars.

I have been trying to see it on Google Map but can't find.
Could somebody post Google link ?

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Macroscien said...
I have been trying to see it on Google Map but can't find.
Could somebody post Google link ?

Search Luderitz in google maps. The speed course is in the Southern end of the large bay about 15km south of town Luderitz

Thanks for persisting and getting these onto Seabreeze Col. It is really interesting to see the canal from the air.

Is that is the place on the Google Maps ?
www.google.com.au/maps/preview#!q=Luderitz+Museum&data=!1m4!1m3!1d2529!2d15.1786428!3d-26.6040786!2m1!1e3!4m32!2m14!1m13!1s0x0%3A0xdffee640c2452ef1!3m8!1m3!1d19967!2d15.165722!3d-26.6425685!3m2!1i1920!2i1075!4f13.1!4m2!3d-26.6467683!4d15.1524639!5m16!2m15!1m14!1s0x1c6be6998f0e1a13%3A0xbe2d3687ec30cd56!2sLuderitz%2C+Karas%2C+Namibia!3m8!1m3!1d78926!2d153.3695875!3d-27.9595952!3m2!1i1920!2i1075!4f13.1!4m2!3d-26.6458333!4d15.1538889&fid=7

No. Here:
26??41'13"S 15??08'54"E

Must be a Southerly wind I guess. I would have expected it to be a thermal from the west.

This is interesting.

The Namibians have dumped many of the German place names and replaced them with ethnically acceptable names. Luderitz is now !Nami=Nus, with the symbols indicating two of the four click noises used in the local Khoekhoegowab language.

It's now officially unpronounceable

I have to plead ignorant, what's the wind direction you are chasing, say in the top pic?

This photo points s/sw which is basically the direction the wind comes from, down through the gap in the hills.

Just had someone tell me they did donuts for us while we were in the air, last person I expected it to be!