My brother sent me a link to an article in the Harvard Health Publications from Harvard Medical School. Below is an excerpt from it and it makes interesting reading. Maybe some of our wise grey heads should be staying in the air to counteract the exuberance of youth… Age not a barrier to peak performance Continue reading
Author: Helene
I live by a beach just north of Cairns – my own tiny slice of paradise in North Queensland. When I'm not writing, you'll find me flying Dash 8 aircraft for QantasLink around regional Australia.
I write romantic suspense with feisty, confident heroines who (not surprisingly) work in the aviation industry. My stories are set in the top end of Australia – a wild and wonderful, larger-than-life environment just begging to be showcased in anticipation-filled novels.
Gordo’s Farewell… (And Dicksta made an appearance!)
In a career spanning close to four decades, Captain Gordon Scott has accumulated over 25,000 hours in the air. A wonderful mentor to so many pilots, Gordon will be very much missed by his colleagues in Qantaslink (particularly the Sunnies Nth Qld base in Cairns xxx). Hopefully retirement will give him time to go for Continue reading
Hinchinbrook Island and the Texas Terror
6 am Monday morning and the sky was overcast in Lucinda. The rays of early sun created ‘fingers of God’ streaming down over Hinchinbrook Island. It seemed appropriate that, on a day we were hiking up to the wreck of the ‘Texas Terror‘, the weather should be sombre as well. The B24 Liberator bomber crashed Continue reading
The Pyramid – Walsh’s that is…
Walsh’s Pyramid (or Bundadjarruga) is a 922 metres high peak to the south of Cairns. It has a very distinctive shape – kind of like a pyramid really… It’s used as a training ground for those heading off to do the Kokoda trail. The Pyramid is also the scene of a race to the summit and Continue reading
Sweet little bees
My dad introduced me to bees when I was about twelve years old. To my mother’s initial disbelief, he came home from work one day with a cardboard box full of buzzing, agitated insects. He’d found a swarm up a telegraph pole and, being the original hoarder, couldn’t bear to see them go to waste. Continue reading
A lovely way to start the day
A beautiful late-winter sunrise in Trinity Beach. The view is from half way up a set of stairs used by many people for their morning step-ercise regime. I hope they all find time to enjoy the changing colours of the sky. And it’s lovely to be home, walking Zeus in barmy 19 degrees! It always Continue reading
Pilot’s tale takes off
Cairns Post, Monday, May 19, 2008. Kylie Reghenzani SHE has blown up Circular Quay and even had a romance along the way – all in the name of fiction. Pilot Helene Young, from Cairns, is one of eight finalists for her novel, Beyond the Borders, in the Romance Writers of America’s 2008 Golden Heart awards Continue reading