Townsville and the start of the paramotor trip !

We ended up driving for the next 2 days and 1400km.We were parking up along the road and mainly just putting miles in. We were late starting on the this trip, waiting for the paramotors to show up and other odds and ends. I had asked Parajet to have the motors in OZ for the 15 Jan. but I guess 6 months advanced notice is not enough time! We took a few days in Townsville geting the motors and wings set up and tested at an old private airstip outside of town about 30km . Testing was only 1 flight ,it went ok , this was the 1st time we had been on this equipment the Parajet and Dudek wings. Mark ended up having a mishap with his motor the first day when a line wrapped around his wrist and caused him to do a big long turn and hard downwind landing, thankfully nothing broke . We camped at the airport and were forced to run for cover at about 1am , a wicked storm blew in and soaked everything and blew the motors over . We woke up a bit late thinking it would still be blowing but by 7am we were up in the air and flying . Cool clean air and a slight headwind from the south , a but bumpy as we headed towards the ranges when it switched to north but manage a good start to the day about 70km landing east of Chartersville. Mark thought he was out of fuel and decided to land . Good landing and we spent the day in town getting stuff sorted out , missed the evening flight !