Still alive!

Today I flew to Hastings Field on North Pender Island just north of Victoria with my instructor. It was only a one hour round-trip flight from Boundary Bay. I heard that the airstrip was very tricky to land on because it is a one-way, grass field with a steep slope. "One-way" here means that we couldn't turn around if we failed on the approach because the strip is surrounded by steep valleys. It was so tricky that my instructor took the controls and, uh, what should I say, he failed; his approach was too high, and he overshot the one-way runway. The airspeed was below stalling speed, and I was so nervous that I took off my sunglasses and fastened my seat belt in case of a crash. It was quite natural that I couldn't take a good picture of the final approach. Fortunately, he succeeded in escaping from the valley and was able to land on the second attempt. It was anyway the most exciting experience during the last five years of my life.