Plane spotting Zurich Airport

Saturday morning 5:30... Time to leave to Zurich airport, but not to fly away, insead Torben and I went to see planes start and land what is called plane spotting. Zurich is the next biggest airport and is plane spotter friendly as I read in the internet before. I don't know how other airports are, but in Zurich are several spots, every spot has a big parking, and you can buy food and drinks. Depending on the time of day the runways are differently used for starting and landing.

The first location we went to is called Heliport. In the early morning planes are landing on the runway in front of the location. Especially to see the landing of the Singapore Airlines A380 it is a good location. Later the day the runway is used for starting. Just from the sunlight it is not perfect because you look East into the sun in the morning, but during the day it gets better. What is great is that they cut little holes in the fence you can put the camera through.

The second location we went to is North of the Airport at the "Naturschutzgebiet Vordermoos". At the weekend from 9am onwards the airplanes use the other runway to land and all airplanes approach here.























At midday we switched back to the first location to see the bigger airplanes leave to the US and Asia.
For the first time plane spotting I think some good pictures came out.

Hochgrat

For the first time I went hiking this year. The weather was nice and sunny. This time I took it easy and just went on an afternoon trip to the Hochgrat. There is a gondola uphill with a (self service) restaurant (with cheese cake) on top. The rest of the day was downhill :). The view was not clear, but the Bodensee was visible.

Finally summer

Not much to say. After one week finally the weather is like it should be. Warm and sunny. These are some pictures I took in Meersburg today.

Storm at the Lake Constance

The weather is again crazy. At 10 in the morning already 28 deg, in the afternoon around 35... and in the evening at 9 still more than 30 degrees... This of course means thunderstorms :). I went to Birnau and Meersburg yesterday to take some pictures of the storm.

One week of sun

Finally temperatures above 20 degrees and sunshine. Time to test my new EF 16-35mm 2.8 lens. Still I am not really fit so just some small walks around Meersburg with my camera. Here are some of the pictures. Sunday it got cloudy again and today it was raining cats and dogs again...
Well I think I will enjoy this new lens a lot, especially when hiking. Here are some of the pictures.