Exploring the world in the Beechcraft Bonanza

Leg 180, Tanami, Northern Territory 0872 to Dunk Island, Great Barrier Reef, Austrlia

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East, to the Great Barrier Reef

02-17 Tanami YTMN 4:06 PM
02-17 Supplejack Down YSUJ 4:22 PM
02-17 Hooker Creek YHOO 4:49 PM
02-17 Cattle Creek YCAC 5:17 PM
02-17 Elliott YELL 6:01 PM
02-17 Ucharonidge YUCH 6:23 PM
02-17 Eva Downs YEVA 6:42 PM
02-17 Anthony Lagoon YANL 7:00 PM
02-17 Cresswell Downs YTET 7:13 PM Weird road patterns 17°54’59.7"S 136°17’26.4"E
02-17 Benmara YBNM 7:38 PM
02-17 Mount Isa YMOS 7:56 PM Uknown airstrip at 17°28’11.9"S 137°55’21.7"E
02-17 Westmoreland YWML 8:16 PM
02-17 Mornington I YMTI 8:46 PM
02-17 Bentinck Island YBTK 9:05 PM
02-17 Sweers Island Resort YSWE 9:12 PM
02-17 Karumba YKMB 9:43 PM
02-17 Lotus Vale YLOV 10:01 PM
02-17 Vanrook Station YVRS 10:17 PM
02-17 Highbury YHHY 10:49 PM
02-17 Gamboola YGAM 11:04 PM
02-17 Wrotham Park YWMP 11:15 PM
02-17 Maitland Downs YMDW 11:37 PM
02-17 Daintree YCBY 11:57 PM
02-18 Yalkulka YYAK 12:08 AM
02-18 Cairns International YBCS 12:28 AM Great Barrier Reef
02-18 Innisfail YIFL 12:48 AM
02-18 Dunk Island YDKI 1:04 AM

Flight time 8:58 26 stops

Supplejack Downs (cattle farm) early morning

Flying over Lajamanu NT 0852

Hooker Creek Airport at Lajamanu

Must get a lot of business needing 2 runways

Over Gurindji NT 0852

More color near Cattle Creek Airport

Cattle Creek Airport

Heading further east over Tanami East

A road through Pamayu

Elliott Airport at Lake Woods Conservation Covenant

Pictures from Lake Woods Conservation Covenant

On approach to Ucharonidge Station

Elliott Mungabroom road near Eva Downs Airport

Creswell Downs Aiport

Calvert road through Creswell NT 0852

Does anyone know why so many roads have all these run offs in the Northern Territory?

Between Creswell and Benmara

Over Nicholson Northern Territory 0862

Westmoreland Airport, Queensland 4830

Big storm brewing near the coast, flying to Gangalidda, Queensland 4825


And out over the Gulf of Carpentaria

Mornington I Airport on Mornington Island, Queensland

Sweers Island

Gamboola Airport

Bellevue, Queensland 4892

Maitland Downs Airport

Daintree, Queensland 4873

Beautiful and dangerous coast

Yalkulka Airport

Approaching Cairns

Cairns in tropical Far North Queensland

Cairns is considered the gateway to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Skyrail Rainforest Cableway and Michaelmas and Upolu Cays National Park

Innisfail Airport, the storm has really picked up in intensity

Last stop for today at Dunk island in a heavy thunderstorm

No chance of visiting the Great Barrier Reef in this

Under better circumstances

I’ll be heading South along the coast tomorrow, towards Brisbane