Oh the Mutton Bird season!
The pokey little patches of grass, or beach, associated with Mutton Bird rookeries in Tassie were quite sporting.
Those strips in the Hunter group (NW tip) were generally more challenging than the Flinders group. Trefoil Island was a favourite of mine, especially the short cross-strip. I never landed on Deal Island, but I’ve seen photos of a 185 there and heard the waries.
I found that learning the ropes with an old hand, practice and overcoming various iterations of the hour-induced-pilot-illusion (500, 1000, 1500 etc) of being bulletproof helped immensely.
pithblot
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