Leg 182, Gold Coast, Queensland to Gundaroo, New South Wales 2620, Australia
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More bad weather along the Eastern coast of Australia, which made for some interesting landings and surreal cloud landscapes higher up in the air.
02-19 Gold Coast YBCG 3:56 PM
02-19 Murwillumbah YMUR 4:00 PM
02-19 Tyagarah YTYH 4:12 PM
02-19 Ballina YBNA 4:23 PM
02-19 Evans Head YEVD 4:34 PM
02-19 Palmers Island/Yamba YPLI 4:48 PM 28 knot headwind
02-19 Lord Howe Island YLHI 6:59 PM
02-19 Port Macquarie YPMQ 8:56 PM
02-19 Dexfield Park YDFD 9:04 PM
02-19 Camden Haven YCMH 9:15 PM
02-19 Taree YTRE 9:26 PM
02-19 Old Bar Heritage YOBR 9:34 PM
02-19 Forster (Wallis Is) YFST 9:45 PM
02-19 Maitland YMND 10:09 PM
02-19 Raworth YRAO 10:19 PM Short ‘runway’
02-19 Williamtown Military YWLM 10:27 PM Newcastle 32°55"10"S, 151°47’52"E PG Area
02-19 Aeropelican YLMQ 10:50 PM
02-19 Warnervale YWVA 10:59 PM
02-19 Somersby Airstrip YSMB 11:07 PM
02-19 Kingsford Smith Intl YSSY 11:32 PM Sydney
02-19 Holsworthy Army Airfield YSHW 11:40 PM
02-19 Wedderburn YWBN 11:49 PM Wollongong 34°25’12"S, 150°54’24"E PG Area
02-20 Shellharbour YSHL 12:12 AM
02-20 Mittagong YMIG 12:23 AM
02-20 Bathurst YBTH 12:54 AM Mount Panorama 33°26’53.8"S 149°33’22.7"E
02-20 Eglinton YEGG 1:11 AM
02-20 Orange YORG 1:22 AM
02-20 Cowra YCWR 1:41 AM
02-20 Gundarooo YGDO 2:13 AM
Flight time 10:17 28 stops
At least it wasn’t raining on departure
Flying by the Rous river in a gloomy early morning
Murwillumbah Airport
Brunswick River at Brunswick Heads
Cape Byron, the most easterly point of mainland Australia
Cape Byron Lighthouse, build in 1901
Evans Head, New South Wales 2473 at the head of the Evans river
Home to the F111 Museum
Yamba Airport on Palmers island, the rain has come
Heading out over the Tasman Sea to Lord Howe’s Island
Better views at 7,500ft
Heading for trouble
I guess I shouldn’t be flying straight into this
Which way is up!
Almost time to descent into that seething mass below me
Lord Howe Island spotted at about 500ft
Lord Howe Island Airport
Normally a tropical paradise
Neds beach with a form of sea cucumber or jellyfish?
Heading back to the main land
Climbing out of the lower layers of the storm, cruising at 7,500ft
Quite the ride, I can still feel the plane getting tossed about
Port Macquarie at the mouth of the Hastings River in New South Wales
Home to a Koala hospital and a different interpretation of painted rocks
Old Bar Heritage Airstrip, build 1925
Maitland Airport, double socked
Newcastle, harbour city in New South Wales. Here looking at Nobbys lighthouse from 1858
Newcastle Ocean baths, 1920s ocean swimming pool with an art deco pavilion
Unfortunately photogrammetry gets flattened at the coast
The real things, pretty close
Queens wharf on Hunter river
Christ Church Cathedral opened 1902, but a church was present on the site since 1817
Merewether Ocean Bath featuring a winter swim club
Oh it gets down to 17c in winter, ocean temperature down to 66F. My kids jump in the pool when it’s still below 60F… 66F water is fine for a quick swim. Not bad here today, -6c, light snow.
Sydney, not the capital of Australia, but the most famous city of Australia
Of course the Sydney Opera House, build from 1959 to 1973
Left of the Opera the Man O’War Steps, build from 1810. For 150 years, Man O`War Steps served as a landing and embarkation point for men of the British and Australian Fleets in peace And war.
From these steps 2,215 officers and sailors of the Royal Australian Navy left to serve their country in the Great War 1914-1918, the Second World War 1939 - 1945, Korea, Malaya and Vietnam, never to return to enjoy the fruits of their labours in their native land.
I can’t resist a bit of dangerous flying
Under the harbour bridge, or rather what MSFS made of it
The real Harbour bridge and a picture from the Museum of Contemporary Art
Australian Museum, founded in 1827, Australia’s oldest museum
SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium hosting over 700 species of fish
And the Australian National Maritime Museum on the right
Coming in for a quick landing at Kingsford Smith International Airport, aka Sydney Airport
Flagstaff Point Lighthouse at Wollongong, build in 1936
“Five islands” just of Red Point
Red Point. Kinda puzzling why this has the PG treatment, but not Sydney
Port Kembla, still fun to check out the seaport
Wobbly trains and all
BlueScope Steel Springhill Works and Flat Products Metalworks
Looking back at this small photogrammetry strip from Barrack Point, Shellharbour
Time to head inland to my favorite place in Australia, flying by Kanagra Walls
To Bathurst. I wonder if my wife would like to move here.
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For Mount Panorama!
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Best track on Earth after the Nordschleife
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Murray’s and Hell corner at the front here, The chase on the left after Conrod straight
Flying over The Esses into The Dipper
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View from the other side, Skyline and and Sulman Park to the left
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Love it, some of my favorite moments on the track at The Chase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmC78QGRQJg
Onwards to the capital, passing by Cadia Hill Gold Mine
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A bit more dramatic in reality
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Stopping at Gundaroo for now, just North of Canberra
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I’ll be exploring the capital tomorrow, then heading out to the west towards Uluru