JG's Flying Adventures - Australian Outback 2019-2022
Jun ’19 - Flight to the Farthest Corner of OZ 5,200 nm, 9,666 km, 73 hrs.
Cape Leeuwin, farthest SW crner of Australia.
Jun ‘21 - Flight to North Queensland
Sunset on the shortest day of the year 2022 from Sunset Tavern Karumba, NQld.
May ‘22 – Decided to fly to Western Australia to visit Shark Bay once again. Right at the opposite side of this vast country so long days over familiar country, and uncomfortable times setting up camp due to weak legs and stiff back, due to aging…. At Leonora weather forecast showed that a rain front was moving in over the coast and liable to hang there for many days. So turned around and headed home again, via Kalgoorlie and south coast. Too long a trip over familiar scenery that I've flown several times before. At age 82, and getting older, don’t think I’ll be doing more such long trips now….
But sure am glad that I did what I did earlier……
3,500 hrs of the best adventures.
p.s.- You well may ask how I could afford to do so much flying. I'm certainly not rich. But I've worked hard and saved and made a couple of good investments, and most importantly live very frugally. Drive old cars to their death, live in a bachelor flat in my workshop, never eat out and seldom go to the pub. When on flying trips I camp under the wing and never pay for a bed. Most folk would consider this life-style to be deprived, but I'm fortunate in that the adventure of it all suits me just fine, wouldn't desire for more. Always do my own maintenance and aircraft building and repairs, made possible by the RAAus homebuilt category rules. Capital cost and running cost about the same as a good 4WD.
So all that flying was easily affordable.
JG