The gang arrived at the Koh Thai beach bunker, complete with canvas shelters, festoons, beach bars and a 'high flyers' restaurant. Smartly done, something similar to the boutique camping areas at the likes of T in the Park "the residence".
After some impressive helicopter performances the Fulcan made it's first appearance in some years. Definatly worth the wait, the roar in the sky was unbelievable, imaging 5 Concordes in a sports hall, that was it.
The Red Arrows setup was pretty awesome, with some precision moves...
As usual, bringing out the patriotism in the British Public...
Air show antics over, the crowd moved on to a casual game of boules over a glass or two, or three...
Dinner was served under the night sky with the Red Devils giving off an impressive performance...
The standard of the Thai food was very impressive ;despite being on the beach the food was still their usual great restaurant standard. King prawns on the menu? More like emperor prawns! These were huge. Unfortunatly due to the great strong coctails the photos came out a bit blurred and didn't make it! Staff wise, not sure what went on here, more of a mad house in all honesty, definatly not the military style operation put on in the skies in the day. An all round cracking evening though guys, nice one.
The next day saw an early rise for a day out on the Whitbread 60 Blue print round the world yacht. A seriously impressive machine having set the world record for the most miles covered by a yacht in 24hours!
You could definatly understand why, with some serious sails powering this beast...
Due to the wind conditions (or lack of!) , captains weren't too shaken up and casually cruised through the Solent waters...
Time to get the spinnaker sail up to catch some breeze. With all sails up she really did pick up! With the captain describing her as "bringing a machine gun to a knive party" he definatly wasn't wrong.
With all the excitement over it was Now back to planning the season ahead...
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