My logbook indicates that I took this photo at Gove in January '86. You can see the "tower" in the background, but I cannot recall if it was manned or not. (By the looks of the trees surrounding it - probably not!) My last trip there was in May '89 in a 737-300. Each time, I can recall talking to someone on the radio on the way into Gove, but it would have been most likely Flt Service, because on one occasion that sticks in my mind, there was a bit of "VFR" traffic that we seemed to be talking to - to sort out separation ourselves (which actually worked very well) - as we carried out a DME arrival in very wet weather to the minima.