Queens Birthday Weekend Fly-away Report
LFC members staged a successful and fun weekend fly-away to Dubbo on 10-12 June, with 14 people and six aeroplanes making the 3.5+ hour trip to the city in the NSW Western Plains. We spent a day exploring the best Dubbo had to offer then braved the 20-knot headwinds and slowly darkening weather for the trip home, but everyone got back applauding the weekend and the effort put in by SQNLDR Dave Marty in organising. Highlights of the trip were:
- Blasting out of LIL through blue holes in the fog
- Happy hour on night one
- Dinner at the RSL after an adventure trying to find the door
- Ordering the wine and having something completely different come
- Vicki Marty’s parking effort
- Western Plains Zoo complete with hippos, siamangs, tigers, lions, cheetahs and some very slow Galapagans
- Happy hour on night two
- Dinner at the Lion’s Pride restaurant
- Dave Marty’s spare ribs
- Visit to the observatory, complete with close-ups of the moons of Jupiter, Saturn and its rings, the moon, the Jewel Box and other stars of note
We will organise another weekend away soon. Destination: unknown.
African Wild Dogs take a break from boredom to leap around nipping and yipping at each other.
Meandering zebras crossing their grassy paddock.
Warren and Delia prepare AG5B WDJ before heading back to Coldstream.
Sylvia and Barry with Jabiru 5122 on departure day.
One of only 400 Sumatran tigers left in the world.
Russ and Julie in front of their trusty steed Pioneer 4944.
Przewalskis horses at play.
Phil gets Archer DDM ready for the trip home.
A very happy hour (OK, it was two hours). L-R: Pitch, Phil, Bob, Julie, Bill, Barry, Dave, Warren and a couch full of ladies.
Sunday night happy hour. L-R: Warren, Vicki, Debbie and Sylvia.
A very funky gibbon with an itchy foot.
Elephants loll around the display pen.
A Cheetah on alert.
See you back home! Pitch and Phil beat everyone out of Dubbo on the Monday morning.