This is my leaving day for Iquique, I say good bye to all of my friends there, my supporters and others and start in the early afternoon to maybe can do a evening soaring at the La Portada natural monument, where I did fly in 2003 the last time. I arrive just in time for a late evening recreational hang-out-soaring flight into the dawn. What I did not know nor become aware of is, that flying there is forbidden in the meantime. The reason might be, that La Portada is a declared national park nowadays.
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