ready to leave, Sydney CBD on horizon
runway take of east , then bank south to get afternoon sun reflecting on the ocean, and south sydney national park coastline silhouette won't be in the water again for a while turning north west now, looking at the bay of Cronulla, north of National park great view of Botany bay and the airport and the sprawl that is sydney metropolitan with its harbour as the center zooming in to show you the bridge and opera house going northwest now over Blue Mountains and Wollemi & Yengo National parks Bylong valley and state forest Kelgoola, all looking very lush after the heavy rains looking north east of Kelgoola, if you are into farming, cattle and bush I think this is where you would want to be Nullo Mountain, north of Kandos Rylstone weir and there lies also Louee winery, so close to Mudgee ( Hi Kathy ) I'm very frustrated and annoyed right now, look at all the dirt on this window, why is it always British Airways with the shitty windows. This has happend to me before on short haul flights in Europe with British Airways, but on a long haul flight, British Airways, you guys are killing me right now !! As I was hoping to get some spectacular sunset shots, but not with all this muck and filth pasted on the window. How about you give the plane a high pressure hose rinse once in a while. I am really really not happy right now ( I'm pissed off ) I mean look, wide shot and even if I keep my aperature low to minimise depth of field  so foreground should not be an issue, but still, just black muck ( grrrr... so it's true about poms not washing ! ) I turn my atte ntion away and read the paper and Time magazine, but then a little later as we cross from Queensland into the northern territory I see this and am pissed again I try squeezing in low to avoid the shit on the windows tropical north nice, but can't go to wide as then the shit appears from the window into the picture so some tighter shots nice
again, would like to go wider and show you the beauty I'm see-ing, but can't with these dirty windows ( get the message yet British airways, clean it !! ) I see another print coming up
special ! Nice pic woauw, even nicer, just awesome, it's a painting from nature you know what I'm gonna say right yep, the lack of desire to be clean and presentable ruins an amazing photo woauw, just woauw, look at that !! that white dot you see, that's a full moon that's has just risen up !! awesome, except for that dirt ( seriously British airways, I'll get on a cherry picker with some windex myself if you can't be bothered , come on, look at that ! )
tropical full moon

that's it, full moon and no daylight for the rest of this trip, including from Bangkok to London, nighttime for another 17 odd hours