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
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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
RWA Brisbane Conference
Whew! Have made it home to Cairns after a hectic weekend in Brisbane at the 2009 RWA conference. What a wonderful uplifting three days it’s been. As usual, the social whirl was exhausting, the training sessions were full of “light bulb” moments and the key note speaker, Mary Jo Putney, was inspiring.