I was making some light hearted humour about flying without a radio. Sorry if I offended your hiness Sir Walters.
Every time I have been to Torquay recently, all aircraft have been using radios, including the Lakes.
As for the other "near misses," normal stuff. It happens everywhere else at times.
Trikes are different to RA-Aus. You only need 100 hours as a pilot to take paying passengers on a TIF so it's TIF's (joy flights) a plenty in the trike world under HGFA.