at the landing zone. our cars were set up in a circle, food and drink were prepared in there even were a bit of dancing with the recovery crews. after that, it was time to go to bed (the bed being the folded down back seats of one of our four-wheel-drive vehicles) to be ready and awake for the landing schedule for a few minutes before 09.00 the next morning.
the evening before the landing half of the sky above the landing zone was covered by clouds and, if anything, the clouds seemed to be pulling in rather than pulling out. the forecast for the next morning was cloud cover with 