13 Go to Southwold!

Mike Pountney's GoPro HD Hero 2 camera mounted on my Cody Box Kite at about 150ft (ish) looking over the camp site with the sea and Southwold on the horizon. This is a fish eye lens that is not the curvature of the earth. 

Had an excellent weekend in Southwold, good weather making our Geek weekender rather good. In addition to the camping and beer drinking we enjoyed a pleasant afternoon kite flying on Saturday hence all the pictures.

We very much enjoyed an early morning (10am) visit to the Adnam's brewery with a tour and tasting that I think got us all a little merry. The afternoon was spent at The Under The Pier Show, which was further improved by a behind the scene's tour from it's proprietor Mr Tim Hunkin. In addition to the camping and beer drinking a pleasant evening of BBQing and kite flying back at camp and at one point flying about 8 kites including my Cody Box kite (see picture) a brave little blue sled kite also in the picture and Martin's mental wing like kite surfing monstrosity.

Photo by Spencer Owen

A slow start packing away gear and then the highlight of the weekend a visit to Tim Hunkin's workshop just outside of Southwold. I was very delighted to be shown how to use the MIG welder by Tim and had a go at joining a couple of bits of metal together. It really was a lot of fun and I'm pleased to have grasped the welding nettle. Tim took time to show us his latest under the pier attraction in progress the super "Somali Pirates" arcade machine.

I was really delighted to see everyone have such a good time. It was one of the best weekends I can remember. I hope we can do it all again next year.

Tim Hunkin crouched down on the floor causing one hacker to exclaim "You look more like Tim Munchkin now!" a good time was had by all. Photo by Gillian Zirmer