We decided to go around the Green Swamp with no designated
turnpoints. That means that you can cut into the swamp as much as you are
willing to risk. I was willing to risk a bunch to follow the clouds.

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/flightinfo.html?dsId=3583750

And there was a sky full of cu's.

We got up right away and headed west. After the first thermal away from Quest I
didn't follow Olav to the north toward a thermal that obviously was working for
him and headed further northwest to get under a cloud that took a while to turn
on to 700 fpm. By then Olav had disappeared to the northwest and I didn't see
him again.

I went over the Green Swamp staying south of highway 50 and getting under the
cu's and then over the small fire. The lift was often weak and I had to run for
the open field on the northwest side of swamp to find good lift at 1,200' AGL on
the upwind side of a big cu.

With 5,000' it was easy to head south along the swamp and away from the
cultivated fields to the west. It looked bluer over there. But at one point I
had to head west to get under a cloud near the western edge of the swamp.

The cu's started to work a lot better going southeast from Dade City. I kept
going further into the swamp to get the good looking cu's. But some were way
deep in the swamp and I finally had to head for a bluer area just on the south
side of the swamp.

Now the lift got weak as I searched around and then headed north up into the
swamp to get on what I hoped was the upwind side of the cu's. That didn't work
so I scooted back south over cultivated areas and under a small dark cu that was
indeed working. But I only climbed back to 3,300'.

There was a line of cu's going from mine back to the north into the swamp. Those
were the best looking cu's around and I headed under them only to find 600 fpm
down. What was going on?

I turned and headed east toward a cloud a long ways away. Perhaps there would be
lift under it even if I got there low. I passed Olav who had landed just to the
south of me.

There was no lift and I landed in a nice big field with no wind. The people next
door were very helpful.

Looks like it could be a good day tomorrow also. The whole week looks good.