
Sonny Vandevelde
Fashion should be fun and with my photography I love to create those fun moments.
Travel
Sydney > Cairns QF922
Many photos as it was a nice long flight up north
friends
Qantas link is a more regional version of Qantas network
take off, Botany Bay and Brighton-Le- Sands
Dolls Point beach ( which has a novelty left hander once in a blue moon - need big big east swell )
Carters Island with Towra Spit Beach, looking up the Georges river with the Captain Cook and Tom Uglys bridges
The 'nulla, and pretty flat today, not even a ripple at Cronulla Point today, and then South Sydney National Park beyond the 'nulla
never flown this close over Cronulla before, special treat
Gunnamatta Bay behind Cronulla and then up Port Hacking
The walking tracks in South Sydney NAtional park, the coastal one which is awesome for Whale watching , did the walk with Belle & India about 5 years ago, check the post here
Can see Wedding cake rock near Marley beach
banking over Marley as we were heading south, but really are going North, really north
Port Hacking and Port Botany, with Sydney Harbour beyond that and then the north side
great to see the shire from this angle for once
Sydney Airport and next to it Port of Botany
The size of the aiport compared to the size of Sydney CBD, didn't realise how big it was
Sydney and its southern suburbs, dense
can see the difference between it and the north side
Sydney Harbour
Sydney Olympic park
North shore, northern beaches and then the central coast
Sackville, Hawkesbury river
I believe that is to be the site of a new wave pool, right there in Sackville just of the river
The snaking Hawkesbury River, with Wisemans at the top. Who remembers Ming Darcy's Happy Valley party, was around here somewhere
McDonald River , Yengo National Park
and as we slowly fly inland, away from the coastline, before she disappears on the horizon, last look with the Stockton sand dunes
other side of Yengo National Park Denham and Martindale with the Singleton and Muswellbrook mines in the middle ( hard to visualise through the haze )
Near Caroona and the Mooki River causing problems
Town of Curlewis at the top and Lake Goran at the bottom, and yes, crossing of Lake Corran road is flooded
even though no rain clouds in sight, there are several bad flood situations at play today in all these outer west NSW regions
The town of Gunnedah
with the Namoi river causing some problems as well
strange, even the google maps satellite view has the streets flooded
Whitehaven coal mine next to Tarrawonga coal mine,
Namoi river, just below the coalmine, at the town of Boggabri causing problems, and then you think about the issues of climate change and the correlation of the burning of fossil fuel....the effects of it visible here near the coal mine
Moree, also on a flood alert today
Looking towards the Queensland border
Moree Plains
and we crossed over into Queensland, Bungunya
Noorindoo
the town of Surat on the Balonne River
Brindley PArk Feedlot in the center ( think mass produced cattle farm )
some type of water plant or aquaculture there in the middle
Hallet State Forest
and that looks bad, dotted everywhere, fracking
Arcadia valley
Lake Nuga Nuga
interesting looking at Bandana State forest and Bullaroo creek, just of Carnarvon Highway
Nuga Nuga National park and lake
Farmland near Consuelo
Orion to the left Albinia in the middle Mount pleasant state forest on the bottom
Rolleston mine, Albinia
Togara
Lake Maraboon
and Emerald City near lake Maraboon
we're not alone
Brisbane > Singapore flight
Capella
Fertile looking land out near Lowestoff
Peak Range national park in the middle
Burdekin River
Burdekin joined by Bowen river
Burdekin snaking to the Ocean near Ayr
lots of farm fields here
Jerona and Russel Island
Cape Cleveland and Nome
Magnetic Island of Townsville
Magnetic Island, and military antenna in the center circle area
Cockle Bay Reef off Magnetic island
Palm Island ( and Barrier reef beyond it )
Palm and Eclipse Island
Orpheus, Fantome, Curacoa and Palm Islands
on top , Britomart reef, Walker, Trunk , Bramble and Rib reefs, on the bottom Pelorus and Orpheus Islands
Britomart, Walker, Trunk , Bramble reefs
Zoe bay on Hinchinbrook Island
Ramsay beach , Hinchinbrook Island
Zoe Bay looking towards Britomart, Walker, Trunk , Bramble reefs
Back of Ramsay beach on Hinchinbrook Island and Brook Island on top
Mission beach and tip of Dunk Island
Kurrimine Beach National Park and Cowley beach
Baron River
banking around to head south again now for landing at Cairns, Borderline Beach and Double Island
Ellis Beach
and you can see the netted of area for swimming, and that's not for the sharks, but the deadly stingers
coming into land
Palm Cove Cairns
Palm Cove jetty and another netted of area fro swimming
Trinity Park, Cairns
touch of Hawaii about it
landed