flying jesús!

Jesus de Madrid y Gales y www.sierrawoodworks.co.uk en su vuelo en biplaza con Steve:
















Para alguien loco por las aves es lo mas cerca que se puede estar
de ser una de ellas. Es como ser un aguila perdicera durante
media hora... Totalmente recomendable.
For someone mad about birds it´s as close as you can get to becoming
one of them. It´s like being a Bonelli´s eagle
for half an hour... Absolutely recommendable.

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.
— Amelia Earhart

New landscape aerial photos - nuevas fotos aéreas de paisajes

Take a look - new photos at http://www.picassaweb.google.com/ or click on the slideshow to the right to be taken straight there

Mira! Fotos nuevas en http://www.picasaweb.google.com/
o haz click en el proyeccion a la derecha

almond blossom almeria spain

almendros en flor - almond blossom!

Almond blossom in the Sierra de las Estancias - this was

last year, more coming soon!

All our images can be ordered as prints, on canvas or

greetings cards

gecko fly over mojacar again!

gecko fly gets another photo on the front of
mojacar magazine, 3 out of 3 aint bad!
http://www.mojacarmagazine.com/

puta motors

We have adopted Jose Manuel (from granada) in to club gecko
whilst he is here for the next two years teaching in the college
in albox. off we went today for a bit of paramotoring , only Jose's
machine stopped and then wouldn't start! here he is resorting
to pouring fuel straight in to the cylinder head ?
(should have bought a pap Jose ! je je je )

oranges are not the only fruit

orange picking season! but hey we dont want oranges we
want almond blossom and it is comming !! a bit early, hope
we dont get a gota fria (a cold snap) .Its a bit stupendous
when the blossom comes out, (the only advantage to monoculture i can see)
being surrounded by hectares and hectares of almonds
it does someting to your creative juices! , our best selling
/liked photo is of the blossom last year! more soooooon!

west winds

With westerly winds we usually can't fly , normally
too strong and today was no exception with gusts around 56kmh
what we do get with the upper air mass more north westerly
are beautiful cloudscapes and lenticular or wave clouds
set up like dolphins over the sierra filabres
what with seasonal flue, trips to the uk and strong winds
are feathers are getting rusty!

sierra marias cara norte

sierra maria the north side!!!
well it looks like a fab site for those winter days
with a northerly wind and i've lost count the number
of times i've been here with a good forcast only
to have a short flight down or the wind swings around
and then game over! anyway the photo is of club Gecko
arriving last sunday only to find a almost nil wind situation
with nothing happening!!!
what do you do ? Hector (phenomeno) who recently announced
he was a black belt karate champion gave us all a first lesson !


and after that what do bored pilots do ? go for a
flop to bottom , only trouble is this site has such a
shallow and woody take off ,in light winds ......

you end up with many tree/bush incidents!

Must clean this take off but need a good day to show
that it might be worth the effort!

Feliz Navidad y Ano Nuevo!

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club gecko !

club gecko parapente presentar su
calendario 2008
feliz ano nuevo a todos !!

underground, overground - trogladitos for the weekend!

Last weekend saw Gecko Fly underground for a change - staying in caves at Cuevas al Jatib in Baza http://www.aljatib.com/ Great food, caves and company - and only a short drive to Lake Negratin and the amazing fly sites of Jablacon where the flying was smoooooth....... a bit unexciting but the views were fab!


despegue jablacon (oeste)

volando encima negratin

dos pilotos

our cave.....

bar and terrace at Cuevas al Jatib

baza landscape

flight path


autumn trees


planting lines


baza valley

felicidades juan y juani!

Los novios, mucho bailando no mucho volando!

cabo de gata fly site ?

Here we are trying out a coastal site in cabo de gata
the wind was a bit crossed!


so we were pinned to the same bit of ridge
but lovely views all the same !


thanks to hector (phenomeno!!) and isobel
for inviting us

landscape photos

Gecko Fly Parapente's second front cover!

Mojacar magazine http://www.mojacarmagazine.com/ showing Steve
flying above a snowy Almeria landscape.
This second edition of the on-line
magazine features an article about Gecko Fly Parapente too -
check it out and you'll see why we need a new photo of us!
We've tried to convince the editor to come flying but he doesn't seem keen....

tandem paragliding vouchers

Now you can really suprise someone!

Gift vouchers for tandem flights in 2008 now available.

Contact us for more details

christmas is coming!

Looking for an unusual Christmas present?

How about a TANDEM PARAGLIDING FLIGHT with Gecko Fly?
Treat someone to the experience of a lifetime flying above
the monastery at Saliente or in the Sierra de los Filabres,
southern Spain.
Vouchers available for 2008!
Price 75 euros

Or

An AERIAL PHOTO of your spanish casa or cortijo?
High quality prints, framed, on canvas or on CD
Personalised greetings cards
Book us in now in time for Christmas!
Prices start at 60 euros

Call 680 358 549 or 635 243 539

email: geckofly1@hotmail.com