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was an early sign that this was not a typical way to fly. “Keep to the right of
the runway as you land,” the airport manager casually advised. “There is a
plane bogged on the left.”

Fortunately,
the warning came in plenty of time - not as we descended to the isolated
central Australian airfield at William Creek, but during my pilot friends’
diligent pre-flight phone checks. Still, it’s a bit of a shock when landing
preparation goes beyond returning your seat to an upright position.

As
it turned out, the five inches of rain that had deluged the outback stopped a
week before our arrival, allowing the bogged Cessna to be hauled away from the
danger path. Things were back to dry, dusty, fly-ridden normality by the time
we landed our single-prop aircraft.

How
had my holidays come to this? In a moment of recklessness (I must have been as
reckless as a newt), I’d allowed three amateur-pilot friends to press gang me
aboard their dream of hiring and flying two small planes from Sydney to Uluru (Ayer’s Rock). 

Two
of the fly-boys lived in England
and keen to add desert outback to their flight logs. The other was a fellow Sydney resident who
recruited me for the role of ‘official photographer’ but somehow that title
became ‘cabin bitch’ by the time the team T-shirts were printed. Still, such
loss of self respect seemed a small price to pay for the opportunity to
photograph ‘the Rock’ from a vantage point 4000 feet higher than the usual
perspective.

And
I was curious to know if this was the ultimate form of independent travel. It
seemed to offer the speed and convenience of flying without the dreary waits in
airport lounges and check-in queues. We could land in any city a major airline
could and thousands of places they couldn’t. In four days, I could comfortably
complete the 2000-mile round trip to see one of the world’s great natural
wonders, while getting a taste of outback community life that would normally
require overland travel and a two-month sabbatical. 

William Creek was the stopover for the first night. A small
community whose fame punches considerably above its weight given that its seven
citizens are effectively living in the middle of a desert, 600 miles north of
the nearest major city, Adelaide, and nearly 200 miles from … well, anything
resembling human habitat. Still, apart from its airfield, it boasts a characterful
pub run by surprisingly world-wise owners, and a steady trickle of visitors on
overland adventures. It’s one of those destinations where the urge to record
the achievement of arrival is overwhelming, and every inch of interior bar wall
and ceiling has been claimed by personal markers ranging from business cards to
underwear.

Planes
used to park next to the 4WDs outside the pub but recently the health and safety
concerns of drunken patrons walking into propellers have seen the winged
vehicles restricted to areas closer to the air strip. Still, nobody raised any
objections when we simply opened a couple of gates and taxied down the main
road for a photo call in front of the bar. 

Our
plane was probably the only vehicle on that dirt track all morning, and that
was typical peak hour, but local authorities who took their job too seriously
(or perhaps not) had erected a road sign to warn of pedestrians crossing and a
parking meter. 

Even
people who drive to WilliamCreek usually end up in a plane at some point as the
airfield is a hub for outback scenic flights across Lake
 Eyre. The lake is Australia’s
largest at a staggering 3,700 square miles, but most of it rarely gets wet and
exists predominantly as the world’s biggest salt pan. English daredevil Donald
Campbell drove across its flat crust to set his world land speed record in 1964.


If
he had attempted something similar this year, he would likely have ended up as
stuck as the bogged landing hazard on the WilliamCreek
runway. The week of heavy rain that preceded our December visit had done little
more than revitalise some gently curving waterways in the salty heart of the
lake, but recent runoff from monsoon storms in northern Australia has slowly
flowed thousands of miles downstream to break a seven-year drought and
transform Lake Eyre into a gigantic wetland. Our flight over eerie salt pans
was visually spectacular, but visitors today can see flocks of breeding native birds
in numbers that gather only once a decade.

We
planned to make the next flight leg to Uluru equally spectacular, calculating
it would only take five hours flying to arrive in the golden glow of late
afternoon sunlight, and five minutes to stroll to the airfield for takeoff. Air
travel’s beauty of being able to cover vast distances in short time is usually
destroyed by the hours spent getting to and from airports and through security.
It doesn’t really matter if you are travelling to Madrid or Mumbai – it always takes most of a
day. Our small aircraft may need a tailwind to reach a top speed much beyond
100 mph, but we could be halfway to our destination while a commercial airline
was still checking hand luggage for sharp objects.

That
sort of advantage can still be wiped out by simple weather factors such as low
cloud, which grounds all but the most experienced amateur pilots, but that was
not going to delay us today.  Instead it
was high cloud that spoiled the arrival at Uluru for me as official tour
photographer. The dull overcast conditions shielded the late afternoon golden
light and sapped the outback of its natural vivid colours. 

Poor
light was spoiling the photography but not the experience. From this height, the
largest rock in the world looked like a giant brain protruding from an
otherwise horizon-to-horizon flat landscape. Flat that is except for another bizarre
rock formation, Kata Tjutu (also known as the Olgas), that appears as a dramatic
backdrop to Uluru when viewed from the air. Originally part of the same long-eroded
mountain range, Kata Tjutu is a series of domed peaks, some three times higher
than its more famous cousin. I could be happy with this until we tried for the golden glow again at sunrise.

The
sun teasingly re-appeared an hour after landing as we checked into our Uluru
hotel (much blander than William Creek Hotel’s individual style – nobody
appeared tempted to staple their pants to the ceiling of this bar). I pondered
suggesting a dash back to the planes, but the pilots had discovered the mini-bar
so I piled them into a hire car to experience a Rock sunset from ground level.

While
it wasn’t the sunset viewing we’d planned, it would be wrong to regard it as a
second-best experience. It is undoubtedly one of the world’s special places.
The cliché of watching the rock change colour as the evening light fades is a
cliché because it’s true. We were sharing that experience with hundreds of
others but I found it easy to get lost in individual thoughts – wondering how
the first indigenous Australians to wander in this direction 10,000 years ago
reacted to the sight. Their descendents would explain Uluru as a sacred place
shaped in the dreamtime by serpent spirits, while modern geologists could offer
me alternative theories for how such a natural feature appeared, but what did
the first human to witness this towering sandstone aberration and its changing
colours make of it all? 

The
spirits blessed us the following morning with mostly clear skies for the
sunrise flight. My friends had baulked at my plea to remove a plane door for
clearer photography, but I was more than happy with the compromise of being
able to shove my lens out a small window. The much anticipated golden light
turned the Rock a soft pink in the middle of a rippled carpet of red sand and
clumps of scrub tinged green by the recent rains. I could have stayed on our
scenic circuit for hours but my ever practical pilot friends reminded me that
fossil fuel was a finite resource and it was best not to learn this lesson from
4000 feet. 

The kill-joys set a homeward course
and discussed turbulence, while I reflected on what we had achieved in little
more than a weekend. Slower travel may deliver deeper cultural experiences, but
in a world with limited annual leave not all journeys can be slow. Fast forms
of mass travel like commercial flights can only go where the masses demand.
Qantas could take me to Uluru, but their Boeings would have struggled with a
bogged Cessna on the WilliamCreek runway and the control
tower would never grant a 747 ’s request for a scenic diversion because the
light looked nice on the Olgas.

It would cost a packet if I
was paying for pilots, but the cost becomes realistic when you only have to
hire the plane and buy the fuel. If we had squeezed into one aircraft, the bill
would have been the same as conventional airfares. As my personal demographic
has shifted from backpacker to flashpacker, could I have just been introduced
to a new way for the independent traveller to conquer the tyranny of distance and
time that assigns too many trips to the ‘I’ll do it one day’ file? 

As if answering my thoughts,
my pilot tapped me on the shoulder, asked me to reach for the plane’s manual
and turn to the section on alternator failure. I smiled, but he gave me a look that
said, “Don’t mistake my calmness for humour”.

Fortunately his calmness was
infectious and, between the technical wisdom of the manual and the less
definitive knowledge offered from the other plane, we concluded we were not going
to fall from the sky. But we needed to conserve battery power by switching off
useful things like our GPS and radio.

Before I could ask where this
left us in terms of asking for landing instructions at the next airfield, let
alone finding it in the first place, my friend produced hand-held versions of
the technology with their own batteries – gotta love the preparation of these
fly-boys.

Flying and landing without
the assistance of electrically-operated wing flaps proved not to be a major
issue but getting the problem fixed at remote rural airfields was another
thing. The planned two-day return flight via other Australian natural wonders
turned into a series of unsuccessful searches for mechanical help, and a
rescheduled flight path to larger towns capable of providing battery jump
starts.

Clearly, this new form of
transport wasn’t the answer to all my time-poor travel dreams. Private flying
does offer the unique experiences and the joy of independent travel, but can’t
guarantee them. Airlines always have staff on hand to fix alternators and don’t
delay flights because of low cloud. 

  <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1463518-DSC_4154.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1463521-DSC_4168.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1463252-DSC_4185.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1463253-DSC_4206.jpg"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=691524</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=691524</link><pubDate>Sun, 4 Jul 2010 22:39:32 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Umbria and Tuscany from the air]]></title><description><![CDATA[My flight over Umbria and Tuscany, with a few flyovers of my friend's place in Umbria.  Beautiful weather, and beautiful countryside! <br><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2138/2228683786_da3ebd45ff_m.jpg"/> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2259/2228685588_cacd81d407_m.jpg"/> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2067/2227895091_dc668b95ce_m.jpg"/> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2267/2227896711_734c12b3dc_m.jpg"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=10946</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=10946</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:48:06 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trip with Dan Kirknewton-Perth-Kirknewton]]></title><description><![CDATA[<br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/122301-SNV32331.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/122303-SNV32333.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/122302-SNV32348.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/122304-SNV32365.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=49116</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=49116</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:17:17 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[20090628_Mount McKinley]]></title><description><![CDATA[This was one of several highlights at our AK roundtrip, perhaps the greatest!<br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1009812-ALASKA_0605.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1009819-ALASKA_0606.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1009814-ALASKA_0620.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1009815-ALASKA_0634.jpg"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=523340</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=523340</link><pubDate>Mon, 8 Mar 2010 07:03:47 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helicopter Tour]]></title><description><![CDATA[<br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/27721-IMG_1596.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/27722-IMG_1599.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/27723-IMG_1600.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/27724-IMG_1602.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=11095</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=11095</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:37:05 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schiphol Aerial Photography EHAM]]></title><description><![CDATA[<br><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/56/135988781_e5a47b8f6c_m.jpg"/> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1209/1042049459_cf6113aa75_m.jpg"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=30664</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=30664</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:10:14 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flying trip for dinner on Orcas Island]]></title><description><![CDATA[Practical Party Adventure. Boeing Field to Orcas Island for dinner, back over Bellevue for a night flight. Perfect weather. <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/118984-IMG_7108.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/118985-IMG_7115.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/118986-IMG_7118.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/118987-IMG_7119.jpg"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=47207</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=47207</link><pubDate>Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:00:44 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flight from Cape Town to Lanseria Airport]]></title><description><![CDATA[I kept my GPS on during the flight just for fun and to see what it came out like.  <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/172711-cpt-lan_01.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/172718-cpt-lan_02.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/172712-cpt-lan_03.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/172719-cpt-lan_04.jpg"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=74976</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=74976</link><pubDate>Sun, 9 Nov 2008 12:52:41 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[20081218 Southern Soaring Flight - Tim]]></title><description><![CDATA[Glider trip over Omarama in South New Zealand. Omarama has some of the best thermals in the world, due to the mountains and clear skies. Being flown here by the pilot behind me, with my wife in a separate glider which you can see in some of the pictures. Check out http://www.soaring.co.nz/ for details. <br><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3493/3310922226_157cf63f9b_m.jpg"/> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3447/3310096595_27b0abe64f_m.jpg"/> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3355/3310928248_a0d1d31a23_m.jpg"/> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3540/3310931066_1bfc18cb97_m.jpg"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=138706</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=138706</link><pubDate>Sun, 1 Mar 2009 18:59:11 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rondje Hilversum, Vinkeveen, Utrecht]]></title><description><![CDATA[<br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/742077-11_31_09.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/742078-11_31_27.jpg"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=422537</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=422537</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:16:42 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[2010 Crooked island, Bahamas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trip account written by Kevin BolenderOur trip to the Bahamas (Pittstown Point,
 
Crroked Island) was in beautiful weather. We left Friday morning just 
ahead of a weather front that was down as far south as Vero.
Our 8:30 departure was in clear sky above
 
3,000' with scattered clouds below our cruising altitude of 7,500'. 
Our first leg was direct to Georgetown Exuma, which took us directly 
over Bimini and then over the center of Andros Island NW to SE and 
parallel 
the Exuma Island chain. After clearing customs at Exuma International 
and taking on some fuel we headed 170 degrees for 140 miles crossing 
the beautiful bay between Georgetown and Stocking Island and then across
 
Long Island below Stella Maris toour destination (MYCP was the airport 
identifier), Pittstown Point which is on the north end of Crroked 
Island, 
the northen most Island of the four Islands that make up the Auckland 
Bight. 388 miles from home in 2 hours and ten minutes flying time, 
landing 
at about 11:30 on the 3,500 ft airstrip adjacent to the Pittstown Lodge.
 
A point property with the ocean on the west and north sides and a 
beautiful 
lighthouse on an island (Bird Island Light) about 1-1/2 miles off the 
point.  
                
We landed in a light rain shower that 
soon passed and brought blooming flowers with humming birds and sunshine
 
Saturday Sunday and Monday. A moderate breeze from the south made our 
stay very comfortable with our beachfront in the lee of the island. 
We were four airplanes, 3 of which are two place experimental planes 
built by the respective owners (Buly, Curtis and Mike) and 8871Y, which 
is my (and Mary's) plane with 4 aboard.
We relaxed the rest of the day 
Friday, we spent mostly 
getting used to the goombay smashes and rum runners at the bar and beach
 
in hammocks, beach chairs and swimming. Fresh grouper for dinner was 
to die for and (even the &quot;I don't like fish&quot; people) ate thier 
fill. 
Saturday four of us went 
scuba diving from a boat about a 1/4 mile offshore on the &quot;Wall&quot; 
which is off the edge of a sandy bottom in forty feet of water and drops
 
vertically to 6,000 feet. We didn't go to the bottom at 6,000' but kept 
a watchful eye on the abyss from around 90' at our deepest and enjoyed 
a wonderful dive.
The Girls went to town shopping but 
returned 
in about 20 minutes, it seems that the gal that runs the gift store 
is the nurse and had to run out on a mission, and the gift shop, 
the gas station and the general store were closed. Most people are 
Seventh 
Day Adventists and were at services. The lodge manager (named Grouper) 
who turned out to be our hero promised to call and arrange for an 
opening 
of town later, which, believe it or not, he did. Evening orderves and 
drinks were at the beach bar and a lobster diner was served in a 
building 
(the dining room) which was built in the late 1700's and was the first 
post office in the western hemisphere. All the rooms, sleeping type, 
were ocean side consisting of small buildings with two rooms in each 
building, they were very comfortable,  a/c'd  with nice fluffy towels 
and wonderful bedding (at least mine was). 
Sunday was adventure day 
with four of the guys, and one doggie (either Dolly or Dixie), paddling 
kayaks to the lighthouse, which was built in 1876 by the English. A 
quite amazing structure of five buildings connected by breezeways, and 
roofs that pitched inward to collect water in the masonry gutters that 
were plumbed to huge cisterns under the buildings. We guessed at the 
intended functions of the many different structures built so long ago 
in a completely remote location, like the winch and rail system that 
might have pulled the oared launch ashore from the waiting supply 
schooner 
that I'll bet came very infrequently. Buly and Dixie were the first 
to reach shore on the return paddle, but that would be expected with 
two aboard vs one each in the other kayaks.  
 
 
Monday 3 planes flew in 
formation around the entire Bight, at 500' above the ocean just offshore
 
which took one and a half hours at about 50% power (estimated at around 
150 miles). The fly-by of the few towns we pasted (all situated along 
the coasts) we later found out caused a spectacle for the locals who 
can be very superstitious. The shape of the Long EZE's, in the air, 
were likened to spirits as the locals would look up at us flying by. 
Later that day our host, Grouper (a very accommodating young fellow 
of 42 yrs) invited anyone interested to come along to dive for conch 
from the lodge skiff which was anchored in the harbor cut out of solid 
coral about a mile down the coast. The conch was to be the evening meal.
 
Being interested in our next meal, three of us, Mike, Curtis and myself 
were in and as a result were treated to a great experience snorkeling 
in 15-20' of crystal clear water above pure white sand and frequent 
coral heads which rose 6-10 feet above the bottom. We all brought up 
some conch that we would spot crawling on the sandy bottom and got to 
witness Grouper spear a 32 lb grouper and 6 or 7 nice but smaller 
grouper. 
Now diner would be conch and grouper, thanks to Grouper. 

Our departure on Tuesday 
morning drew a crowd of spectators who wanted to satisfy their 
individual 
curiosities as the &quot;Spirits&quot; lighted aloft.  We all said our 
goodbye's to all our new friends and launch together at 9:30. We all 
arrived in the States around 1 pm with memories of good friends and 
good times hoping to return next year.
          
Thanks to all who came along to Pittstown, and we missed all of you 
that wished you were there !  Special thanks to Annette and Ken Enger 
who are great flying and traveling companions. Buly and Doris and your 
two “kids” we are lucky to have you as friends and thanks for inviting 
us. Curtis and Chris, Mike and Linda we miss you guys already. 
          
Steve and Patricia a special good luck, you were there in spirit and 
we all missed you and thank you so much for what you have done to bring 
so many of us together. 
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