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2017-10-22 01:01
in Australia, Flying, Nflying, Ntrips, Ozsafari2017, Trips
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From Undara, we flew to another island, this time Hamilton Island, a big resort island with multiple airline flights, some international. The first part of the flight was totally VMC, I promise :) (but let's just say that it's a good thing all pilots were IFR rated). After takeoff the clouds went to the ground, and there was no clear path outside of climbing through a hole in the clouds:
where we stayed in Undara
VFR on top
glad to have others on scope, because I couldn't really see them
Hamilton Island's runway
Once on the ground, we waited for our transport in the hangar:
After arriving, we booked a 4WD buggy tour which didn't have extreme driving, but it was fun enough and mostly to climb to a few peaks with a few:
Top views:
our hotel
our planes
we drove down to a beach
some fish would surface to get food
We then went to our room, and I saw some sulfur crested cockatoos by our room, so I went to look for my seeds, and made an offering to the single bird:
then another one came and they fought a bit
this one won
then a few more showed up
Some became very friendly and eager quickly, but they have sharp claws, it hurt a bit :)
happy bird
We then went to hide back in our room, and the birds stayed, hopeful :)
jennifer felt bullied :)
Some pictures from our room:
Meals:
you could have breakfast by the koalas
wedding party outside
Most of our time was spent during 2 days going to the great barrier reef for diving
The last morning, we walked on the beach during low tide:
snails that make the shells that hermit crabs steal later :)
We then had a nice scenic flight on the way out:
our hotel and beach
one of our planes, taking off
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