Kalkan flight - 19th September

Free ride up the 1000m ridge overlooking Kalkan at 1pm with local tandem pilot Halil and another solo pilot from Istanbul (Bulent?). I took the flight path illustrated in the photo. There was an excellent 4-5 up thermal where indicated - which I climbed in for a few hundred meters, but had to bail out since it was drifting inland. There were cu nimbs inland on this day and the rumble of thunder. On a fine day, this may have been the beginning of a good xc flight - to Kas perhaps. There's good soaring on the lower ridges above Kalkan. It's a tight landing on the little road next to the harbour which you have to be accurate with.