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Day 23, Dubbo to Albury |
Observer: Richard Kingsford
Our last survey day – more than a month since we started and after we have covered a lot of the eastern part of the… |
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Day 22, Moree to Dubbo |
Observer: Richard Kingsford
Thankfully Saturday’s heat was gone but there was a howling southwesterly wind, just what we didn’t really want going… |
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Day 21, Sydney to Moree |
Observer: Richard Kingsford
Out of Sydney and heading north to work our way around all the major wetlands in the Murray-Darling Basin. We are now… |
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Day 19, The Lower Lakes |
Observer: Richard Kingsford
The weather forecast was against us – 30 knot winds and 38 degrees centigrade. So we were up at daybreak, hoping to get… |
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Day 18, Mildura to Goolwa |
Observer: Richard Kingsford
We arrived at the airport by six for a quick breakfast and away before the heat hit us. Today, we flew a long section of… |
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Day 17, Sydney to Mildura |
Observer: Richard Kingsford
Start of our flight down the River Murray – Albury to the Murray Mouth. We picked up this mighty river just east of… |
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Day 10, Armidale to Sydney |
Observer: Richard Kingsford
The home leg. This was our easiest day, mopping up on ‘bits’ of survey band 4 which runs from south of Broken Hill at… |
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Day 9, Broken Hill to Armidale |
Observer: Richard Kingsford
Cool days when you are flying out in the west are a blessing – another one today. We headed north from Broken Hill back… |
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Day 8, St George to Broken Hill |
Observer: Richard Kingsford
Cool day for flying west. First survey was down the Balonne River, flanked by a few large storages for irrigated cotton… |
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Day 7, Quilpie to St George |
Observer: Richard Kingsford
Cool morning at 22oC – great for aerial survey. Quilpie, where we stayed last night, lies on the banks of the Bulloo, a… |
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Day 6, Windorah to Quilpie |
Observer: Richard Kingsford
With the rising sun behind us, we flew west along Band 8. Dry river and creek beds run north to south across the survey… |
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Day 5, Rockhampton to Windorah |
Observer: Richard Kingsford
6am out of Rocky in a cab and its driver who had not been to bed. On the way down to Band 8, we passed over the Mt… |
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Day 4, Mt Isa to Rockhampton |
Observer: Richard Kingsford
Today is always our longest and hottest day of our month and a half survey, as we head east along Band 9, starting 200km… |
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Day 3, Airlie Beach to Mt Isa |
Observer: Richard Kingsford
Backpacker central, relieving see breezes and screeching beach stone curlews seemed an age away as we headed west over… |
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Day 2, Maroochydore to Airlie Beach |
Observer: Richard Kingsford
“Very hot day today” blared the Maroochydore commercial radio, as we headed for the plane. That’s what we expect as we… |
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Day 1, Sydney to Maroochydore |
Observer: Richard Kingsford
Off again on our 32 second year surveying waterbirds across a third of the continent. The southerly has just hit Sydney… |
