Lens-Artists Challenge #362: Sports, Sporting Events and Fun Games

Lens-Artists Challenge #362: Sports, Sporting Events and Fun Games

This week it's Beth's turn to host the Challenge, and her theme is 'Sports, Sporting Events and Fun Games' 

(https://wanderingdawgs.com/2025/08/23/lens-artists-photo-challenge-362-sports-sporting-events-and-fun-games/). On her blog, Wandering Dawgs, she says, 'Your challenge is to show images from any sports or games you choose'. Well, if lying on the beach for several hours a day, turning over occasionally to get an even tan, was considered a sport, it would be a shoo-in. Sadly, it's not, so I'll have to think of some other pasttime. 

Fortunately, on the next beach to ours, Praia das Bicas, some people do practise a really exciting sport, paragliding. The paragliders assemble on the cliffs behind Praia das Bicas and launch themselves into the air, using the wind currents to glide up and down the coast, either towards Cabo Espichel in the one direction or along our beach towards Praia do Meco in the other.

A few of the paragliders make a good living from giving rides to tourists, and it's quite amusing watching the clients with their GoPros on a selfie stick shrieking with delight as they pass overhead. One of the pilots in particular is out quite a lot, and he certainly gives the client the ride of their lives, and sometimes the spectators on the ground a bit of a thrill, too.

Themes for the Lens-Artists Challenge are posted each Saturday at 12:00 noon EST (which is 4pm, GMT) and anyone who wants to take part can post their images during the week. If you want to know more about the Challenge, details can be found here (https://photobyjohnbo.com/about-lens-artists/), and entries can be found on the WordPress reader using the tag 'Lens-Artists'.

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