weloveseaplanes
12th May 2008, 21:39
Gidday Gidday Everyone,
Am having a blast doing a float endorsement in Geelong with Bay City Seaplanes. We are also really enjoying Victoria, having cruised down the Great Ocean Road, played with the Twelve Apostles, swum in a lake of dust at Foxhow, got friendly with the natives in Ballarat and traveled back in time to make a stand at the Eureka Gold Fields spilling Blood on the Southern Cross at the world class Sovereign Hills historical theme park.
As you might remember from our earlier post (Floats in our eyes, http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=325266) we're here on a seaplane honeymoon. As well as enjoying Australia, and who could fail to do that (:ok:), we're embarking on our voyage to become the best professional seaplane pilot I can while providing my family with the simple and beautiful lifestyle they wish. To that end we've hired a camping car and are traveling up the Eastern Coast from Melbourne to Cooktown trying to visit as many seaplanes as we can, train in as many seaplane organisations as we can and contact as many seaplane pilots, mechanics and operators as we can find. We hope to use the material gained to write a book on seaplanes in Australia or at the very least add it to our website dedicated to our love of seaplanes.
It would be great if anyone out there knows of any other seaplanes or seaplaners in Victoria. We've found the two commercial operators; Bay City Seaplanes and Melbourne Seaplanes, and heard of a seaplane in the Point Cook musuem (closed when we initially went to visit), and a rumour at the Morrabbin airfield of 'an airline pilot with an amphib.'
Seaplane pilots, operators, owners, certified and ultralights, flying, in a musuem, in the work shop or horror of horrors on the scrap heap - if its to do with seaplanes we'd love to hear from you, after all we . . . love . . . seaplanes :)
Am having a blast doing a float endorsement in Geelong with Bay City Seaplanes. We are also really enjoying Victoria, having cruised down the Great Ocean Road, played with the Twelve Apostles, swum in a lake of dust at Foxhow, got friendly with the natives in Ballarat and traveled back in time to make a stand at the Eureka Gold Fields spilling Blood on the Southern Cross at the world class Sovereign Hills historical theme park.
As you might remember from our earlier post (Floats in our eyes, http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=325266) we're here on a seaplane honeymoon. As well as enjoying Australia, and who could fail to do that (:ok:), we're embarking on our voyage to become the best professional seaplane pilot I can while providing my family with the simple and beautiful lifestyle they wish. To that end we've hired a camping car and are traveling up the Eastern Coast from Melbourne to Cooktown trying to visit as many seaplanes as we can, train in as many seaplane organisations as we can and contact as many seaplane pilots, mechanics and operators as we can find. We hope to use the material gained to write a book on seaplanes in Australia or at the very least add it to our website dedicated to our love of seaplanes.
It would be great if anyone out there knows of any other seaplanes or seaplaners in Victoria. We've found the two commercial operators; Bay City Seaplanes and Melbourne Seaplanes, and heard of a seaplane in the Point Cook musuem (closed when we initially went to visit), and a rumour at the Morrabbin airfield of 'an airline pilot with an amphib.'
Seaplane pilots, operators, owners, certified and ultralights, flying, in a musuem, in the work shop or horror of horrors on the scrap heap - if its to do with seaplanes we'd love to hear from you, after all we . . . love . . . seaplanes :)