Balloons over Wairarapa
The Wairarapa is apparently an excellent place for hot air ballooning – because of our weather and good roading to landing spots. Its also pretty stunning countryside to fly over in a peaceful balloon. Last weekend was the Balloon Festival – 3 days of events and fly-bys, dawn assents, splashdowns in the lake at Masterton, Night Glows and the burner parade.
This year we missed the early morning assent, but here are some photos we took last year:
We did manage to catch a view of the balloons from our house this year:
And we got to see the Burner Parade through Carterton Town. It was a bit odd to say the least to see the town full of people at night. It’s normally so quiet and sleepy.
One day I really must take a ride. We actually did go up in a balloon when we first came to New Zealand on our honeymoon, but that was in ChristChurch with Up Up and Away. Highly recommended.
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- Wairarapa weekend – attempt 3
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Sarah on
Wed, 24th Mar 2010 7:14 pm
Beautiful! I would so love to see that one day.
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