Well a late start this morning , big groggy from the beer. Starting at about 6:15 take off from the shop yard , quick dash across town and then south with a tail wind . Climb to 1600ft and at 75km /hr , soon to be up to 102km /hr by 64km mark , nice sweet air ! As I have found out OZ air does not stay this way for long, at about 134 km the wind came cross and cold. Ahhh here comes the shit !!
Dropping down, now ground crew in sight for the past 1.5hrs , I really thought maybe it would get better and had few landind area's the road is narrow , and tree lined and a cross wind to the road , not going to be a nic earea for landing or taking off. Tough it thru... but 9am I could see fields and open country, yes landing options now and I can drop lower. This area is flooding and has so much water everywhere river is 9m above where it should be. Landed short of Bouke so my ground crew could find me about 280 km and landing by 10:am ... sweet !!
Waited for ground crew about 1 hr in the heat and flies, they stopped to fuel up and were traveling at about 75km /hr .... our truck named Sasquach runs on LPG their is limited LPG out here and about 4 out of 5 staions were not working .so were running on jerry cans and hope . Spent a nice afternoon in Bourke and was in the air by 3:30pm slight cross wind from the NE and ground speed 54km /hr. Managed a rough ride this evening to Coolabah narrow hwy lots f tree's , was good to be down .
Camping next to the pub after a few beers, food and lots of mosquitos it was off to bed , feeling sore and tired !, but happy !!
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