I had a good flight
home from
Sydney on Sunday, made sure I got a window
seat as I had plans for the Nuvi GPS.
After getting to the cruising hieght I turned on the Nuvi 765 and in no time it logged on to the satellites and I was getting some fantastic results, speed, altitude, etc, I knew exactly when the Plane crossed the NSW - Qld
border after passing right over the top of
Bourke and then
Currawinya National Park, I kept turning the gps on and off so as to preserve the battery , also made sure the FM transmitter was OFF too because no transmitters allowed on board. at one part of the flight I looked down and could see a red dirt road so I thought it must have been around NW NSW and noticed on the GPS to the West of the flight path was
Hungerford -Thargominda Rd.
I have driven many of the roads out in Western Qld over the years and was good to get a different view of the country, It was amazing to see just how fast the icon on the screen was travelling over the screen with contours and rivers flashing by, I watched the K's on the screen and counted 5 seconds for 1 Klm. No the old Troopy will not match that.
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I seen down below a huge river system so turned on the GPS to find it was the Georgina River, what a view to see the results
of the rains a few months ago, where ever there was floods I could see a green tinge , then the path took us over the Qld - NT
border , we passed between Mt Isa and
Birdsville, Mt Isa was 360 Klms to the North East.
The next point I was waiting for was the Barkly Hwy, The path crossed it at 90 Klms East of
Barkly Homestead and 108 Klms West of
Avon Downs, I would think we passed a little to the East of
Alroy Downs and crossed the
Tablelands Highway a few K's North of the Station.
I was on the right side of the aircraft and looked down on a
well formed dirt road, I would think that could have been the Barkly Stock route stretching away to the East as far as I could see. We then crossed the Stuart Hwy 5.4 Klms North of Larimah, then almost over the top of WW2 Gorrie
Airstrip, I could not see it , I think it would have been almost under the plane and I would have needed to look straight down and damn window got in the way.
The last and final time I turned on the GPS was just after passing over The Eastern part of
Katherine Gorge slightly West of
Nitmiluk Visitor Centre and then passing over the Edith River 26.6 Klms East of the Stuart Hwy
bridge over the Edith River, then passengers were asked to turn off all electronic devices , at the time I turned off the gps was 26.7 Klms East of Fergusson River
bridge on the Stuart Hwy, the decent into
Darwin had begun. I was hoping to see
Adelaide River but the path was
well to the East
and passed just West of Windows over the Wetlands on the Arnhem Hwy.
After landing after the 4 hour 10 minutes flight It was a good to be back in the warmth of the Top End and was uncanny to think only that morning I was standing on the
lookout taking photo's of the 3 Sisters in the Blue Mountains now so far away.
I spent the night with Noel K in
Darwin and traveeled
home next day with the Mt Bundy Station Owner. I had a great time with my Daughter and her partner , even drove his Falcon around Mt Panorama and did some cattle Ear Tagging for her as
well, now I'm
home and have over 600 photo's to sort through.
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