Last Friday (5 June) I flew on Air North from Cairns to Gove, then spent all day Saturday flying a GA8 from the MAF base there back to Mareeba. Last December I had done
a similar flight, only in reverse.
This time there were a number of Covid-related forms to fill in and procedures to follow, but apart from that it was uneventful. I won't say "boring", because an uneventful flight is what you want when you're covering 1500 km in a single day!
Here are some photos I took along the way.
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| Early morning start in Gove - at the airport around 6:15 local time |
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| The obligatory en route selfie |
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| Low cloud along the Gove peninsula |
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| Cox River, near Borroloola |
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| On the ground at Borroloola for the first refuelling stop |
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| Flying along the coastline, Gulf of Carpentaria |
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| At Burketown for the second refuelling stop |
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| Continuing along the coast |
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| My in-flight office |
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| Featureless terrain between Normanton and Chillagoe |
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Back in Mareeba. I had left Gove about half an hour after the sun
rose, and arrived in Mareeba about half an hour before it set. |
The total flight time was 7.8 hours - a bit longer flying eastwards than westwards due to the prevailing winds, but in saying that I did not have as much of a headwind as I was expecting given the forecast on the day. Doing these trips is all great experience to have and I'm not one to complain about 'having' to go flying!
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