We got to launch again in very light wind this morning, and since we had no other passengers, I got to go up with the balloon. Canberra really is gorgeous from above, especially in Autumn. Though I’m not normally, I imagine it would be rather difficult to be afraid of heights in a balloon. The basket seems very stable indeed, and for the most part you can’t even tell that you’re moving as you drifting right with the wind (though that changes if you’re descending rapidly.

We didn’t travel too far, going up from the launch site, east over to the Hyatt hotel, then back to the high court and around a couple of times before landing neatly between the high court and Questacon. That said, the view from just that little patch of airspace was stunning. Of particular note were the patterns the fog made over the lake just as we got up - Just a light spider-web of mist flowing over the lake. It’s hard to imagine that the whole lake was once just a river flowing through a valley.

Anyway, enough rambling on about balloons - at least until next year.

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