Exploring the world in the Beechcraft Bonanza

Leg 188, Mount Gambier, South Australia to Triabunna, Tasmania, Australia

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Tasmania is amazing! A few weeks ago I didn’t even think it was a real location, just something from Loony tunes, the Tasmanian devil. Which is real as well, and ugly. I prefer the cartoon version.

02-25 Mount Gambier YMTG 4:06 PM Server issues, disconnected/connected repeating
02-25 Portland YPOD 4:25 PM
02-25 Port Fairy YPOO 4:42 PM
02-25 King I YKII 5:26 PM
02-25 Apollo Bay YAPO 5:58 PM
02-25 Anglesea YANE 6:15 PM
02-25 Lethbridge Airpark YLED 6:25 PM
02-25 Bacchus Marsh YBSS 6:37 PM
02-25 Melton YMEL 6:46 PM
02-25 Melbourne Intl YMML 6:55 PM
02-25 Essendon YMEN 7:03 PM Bad performance, manipulators thread
02-25 Moorabbin YMMB 7:15 PM
02-25 Tooradin YTDN 7:25 PM
02-25 Leongatha YLEG 7:38 PM
02-25 Welshpool WHL 7:51 PM
02-25 Killiecrankie YKCK 8:30 PM
02-25 Flinders I YFLI 8:40 PM
02-25 Lady Barron (Flinders Is) YLDB 8:49 PM
02-25 Cape Barren Island YCBN 8:59 PM
02-25 Clarke Island YCKD 9:29 PM
02-25 Boobyalla Airfield YSCC 9:25 PM
02-25 Bridport YBDP 9:37 PM
02-25 Georgetown (Tas) YGTO 9:48 PM
02-25 Devonport YDPO 10:00 PM
02-25 Warratah YWRT 10:22 PM
02-25 Zeehan YZHN 10:37 PM
02-25 Strahan YSRN 10:49 PM
02-25 Queenstown YQUN 11:06 PM
02-25 Bathurst Harbour YBHB 11:27 PM
02-25 Glendevie YGVE 11:43 PM
02-25 Bruny Island YBYI 11:52 PM
02-26 Sandfly YSFY Hobart 12:05 PM 42°52’52"S, 147°20’0"E PG Area Sailing
02-26 Cambridge YCBG 12:24 PM
02-26 Hobart YMHB 12:27 PM
02-26 Lagoon Bay YLAG 12:41 PM
02-26 Darlington YDAR 12:54 PM Unclear Runway
02-26 Triabunna YTUA 1:03 PM Faded Runway Trees in the way

Flight time 8:57 36 stops

Departing from Mount Gambier

Discovery Bay Coast Park

Bridgewater blowholes and petrified forest

Portland, Victoria 3305

Port Fairy Airport along Belfast Lough

King Island in between the mainland and the main island of Tasmania, in the middle of the Bass Strait

Sea Elephant Conservation Area

Rocky Point

Apollo Bay back on the mainland

Cozy little airport

Lethbridge Airpark

Melbourne International Airport

Essendon Airport or Essendon Fields as it says there

Melbourne, the coastal capital of the southeastern Australian state of Victoria

Build around the Yarra river, Flinders street station down there

Flinders street station on the right

Melbourne Art Center

Moorabbin Airport next to Capital golf course

Cranbourne racecourse

Horse races look to be popular around here

Korumburra out the left window

Toora North

Killiecrankie Nature Recreation Area on Flinders island, Tasmania

Killiecrankie Airport

Heading South over Flinders island

Flinders I Airport

Clarke Island Airport. I couldn’t find it at first, hidden behind a forested ridge

Clarke Island with Ca[e Barren Island behind

Boobyalla Beach in Rushy Lagoon, Tasmania (main island)

George Town in north-east Tasmania, at the mouth of the Tamar River

Shearwater on the north coast of Tasmania

Over Sprent

Huskisson river

Huskisson River Forest Reserve

Zeehan on the west coast of Tasmania

Strahan, former port now tourist destination

Macquarie Heads

Macquarie Harbour

Southwest Conservation Area

Queenstown (TAS) Airport

From the other side

Joe Page Bay

Horseshoe Creek

Glendevie, Huon Valley in the South-east region of Tasmania

Glendevie Airport on the top of a hill

Lodge Bay

Kettering on the d’Entrecasteaux Channel opposite Bruny Island

Sandfly Airport

Sandy Bay with Wrest Point Hotel Casino

Hobart on Sandy Bay and River Derwent
https://i.imgur.com/K21yp6t.png

The royal yacht club of Tasmania on the right
https://i.imgur.com/LbvzqLa.png

Sailing World Championships are held here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Vd1R6A_o0

Leaving Hobart after a look at the rest of the photogrammetry area, Nyrstar Hobart Smelter
https://i.imgur.com/1cp2BVq.png

Africa Gully Nature Reserve
https://i.imgur.com/jggkZiE.png

Boomer Bay with water masks! First time I see those
https://i.imgur.com/j2StxGC.png

Marion Beach on Little Chinaman Bay
https://i.imgur.com/T7ziWNZ.png

Shoal Bay with Goldings Reef
https://i.imgur.com/zkV9x7z.png

Goldings Reef
https://i.imgur.com/4p03Sh5.png

Final stop for today in Triabunna, mind the trees while landing here
https://i.imgur.com/XQ1xTc8.png

That concludes my tour of Australia, on to New Zealand tomorrow. Actually I’ve already been flying over Lord of the rings country for a couple hours and it’s pretty amazing!