Tough Day.

Very hard work getting out of the Tauranga area. Very nearly got myself into a spot of trouble getting low over the city without a land-out option. This is not what we are suppose to do...we should always have options. Cows on both airstrips, the races were on for once at the Racecourse, people on all the parks etc. A 2 knot climb out of the Route K valley saved the day...thank Goodness... Cloud bases were as predicted (maybe a little lower than I thought they might be), wave on the Tauranga side and ridge/thermals on the Waikato side. Was blue to the south as the sqiggly lines had forecast...nice to get it right for a change... One low point on the Waikato side...950ft going into the low hills just north of Paeroa...but otherwise an uneventful 270 kms (if you exclude the first 15 minutes...).