Saturday 10 May 2014

Our Isle of Wight Friends

A big 'hello' to Chris and his fellow slope soaring friends. Chris contacted us through our blog and has offered to show us some of the fine slope soaring sites on the Isle of Wight. I would love to get the ferry over and try out the cliffs and hills available over there. Chris said he would send me some pictures for us to see what we are missing.
Anyone else up for a day trip to the Isle of Wight for some slope soaring?

6 comments:

  1. Hi Pal, I went to Southsea recently to meet one of my old work mates, that's just this side of the Solent, only took me about 2 hrs max, so a day in IOW would be easily possible.

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  2. Good idea. Its about 1hour 15minutes to Portsmouth then a 45minutes trip across the water to fishbourne. Not sure where the slopes are from there?

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  3. Chris said they have a good choice of slopes with flying the Needles side of the Island and recently been flying on the top of Culver Down looking North towards Chichester. Apparently there are plenty of slopes we can fly on. Got to be worth a trip over there and give it a try. I'm up for it!

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  4. I think (guess) the ferry would be expensive just for a day, I might be interested in a weekend.

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  5. Hi Marc. We could share cars. That would split the cost of the ferry plus if we get an early ferry hopefully it will be a bit cheaper. Can I will put you on the I of W trip list then?

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  6. Hi Paul, I suspect to get the best from IOW we need to go for a weekend - like the Wales trips. I will be OK for that.

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