Leg 184, Mount Ebenezer, Northern Territory 0872 to Onslow, Western Australia 6710, Australia
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A long flight over the outback, a lot more varied than I thought it was.
02-21 Mount Ebenezer YMBZ 3:25 PM
02-21 Angus Downs ANZ 3:38 PM Drone cam landing, max exposure
02-21 Curtin Springs YCSP 3:51 PM Mount Conner 25°29’46.2"S 131°53’59.9"E
02-21 Ayers Rock (Connelan) YAYE 4:14 PM Uluru 25°20’43"S 131°2’23"E
02-21 Kings Canyon YKCA 4:57 PM Gosses Bluff Crater 23°49’07.6"S 132°18’31.6"E
02-21 Narwietooma YNWT 5:34 PM
02-21 Papunya YPAY 5:49 PM
02-21 Mount Liebig YLBG 6:04 PM
02-21 Kintore YKNT 6:41 PM
02-21 Patjarr YPTJ 7:46 PM
02-21 Cotten Creek YCTC 9:04 PM
02-21 Rudal River YRUD 9:19 PM
02-21 Tracies Field YTCF 9:29 PM
02-21 Nifty YCNF 9:49 PM
02-21 Woodie Woodie YWWI 10:01 PM
02-21 Warrawagine YWWG 10:23 PM
02-21 Muccan Station YMUC 10:41 PM
02-21 Coongan YCOG 10:53 PM
02-21 Port Hedland Intl YPPD 11:18 PM
02-21 Mundabullangana YMDB 11:34 PM
02-21 Roebourne YROE 11:55 PM
02-22 Karratha YPKA 12:07 AM
02-22 Mardi Station YMDZ 12:29 AM
02-22 Barrow I YBWX 12:45 AM
02-22 Thevenard Island YTHV 1:05 AM
02-22 Onslow YOLW 1:16 AM
Flight time 9:51 25 stops
Leaving very early on a Sunday, max exposure drone cam to the rescue
Angus Down Airport before dawn, pitch black without the drone
Still some augmented exposure approaching Mount Conner
Mount Conner (2,818ft) flat top
Shaped like a horseshoe according to the description, I’m not really seeing it
Sun rise at Ayers Rock (Connelan) Airport, Ayers rock aka Uluru in the distance
Uluru, located in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park and sacred to indigenous Australians
Quite a chunk of sandstone, it took 550 million years to turn into what it is today
There’s much more around here, for example Kata Tjuta - Valley of the winds
Also known as Mount Olga, Uluru visible at the horizon
Somewhere else over Petermann NT 0872
Lake Amadeus
A lot less water irl
Kings Canyon
Watarrka National Park
Pretty amazing at ground level
Over Mereenie NT 0872
Gosses Bluff Crater, millennia-old crater possibly caused by an asteroid hit
Also a sacred site to local indigenous people
From a local guide: The only place where the stories the Aborigines and the geologists tell are almost the same = it fell down from the sky
Over Namatjira NT 0872
Mount Zeil (5,023ft)
Mount Zeil region, NT 0872
Over Kunparrka
Mount Liebig (4,180ft) also an Aboriginal community with the same name
Lake Macdonald in the Gibson Desert
It’s a seasonal lake, pretty much dry most of the time
Ngaanyatjarra-Giles
Patjarr Airport
Gibson Desert Nature Reserve
Little Sandy Desert, Western Australia 6646
I would call it the chromatic aberration desert
Probably from the lens used for the satellite pictures
An unknown (unlabelled) lake in Gibson Desert North
Cotten Creek Airport
Rudal River Airport
Tracies Field
Nifty Copper Mine. There are a lot of iron ore mines in the area as well.
Marble Bar, Western Australia 6760
Muccan Station
Port Hedland, made it to the West coast!
Redbank bridge lookout and Pretty Pool Park in Port Hedland
Sherlock, Western Australia 6714 along the Indian Ocean
Karratha in the Pilbara region of Western Australia
Thevenard island
A nature reserve nowadays
Last stop today in Onslow, just on the coast here, population 848. I’ll be heading South along the coast tomorrow.