jean marc Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 CENTRAL AUSTRALIA - NEAR ALICE SPRING He is often on the road, walking in the bush, from place to place, following his dreams, parts of his story. He is on his Songlines... #01 #02 "Mamanha nyiya bandiku kankala Minkala..." : "When the earth was soft, creation spirits travelled all over the country, giving it shape and form, making the rivers, the gorges and the mountains.... #03 ...They created and named all the animals, birds and plants. They gave people their own language and laws to live by. Everywhere in the land there is evidence of their travels... #04 ...They sometimes transformed themselves into features of the landscape. They are the spirits ancestors of all of us, Aboriginal people. Their presence remains in the land today..." #05 I met Tommy many years ago near Uluru, in the Valley of the Wind of Kata Tjuta #06 #07 I was looking unsuccessefuly for a new kind of the very rare kangoo-mouse as well as possible "fossil living" dinosaur-ants...(the Graal for the entomologist !) He told me he maybe had seen such tiny marsupials (he said "kalunnytia" in Yinjibandi), a small group of them once in the Tanami Desert near Birindudu... and he kindly drawnt me a small note about the location... We came back together via Kings Canyon to Alice Springs. In the museum, we talked about the crash of the Kookaburra plane and famous Coffee Royal incident : - "Tommy, surely they should have learnt from aboriginal people how to survive in the desert..." - "Oh yes Peter... but it takes many years to learn, and a long practice..." #08 #09 I remember his words : "My strength, the strength of the land. I can feel it in myself, I belong there. It’s our country, our dust, our place. We remember the old people..." #10 WESTERN AUSTRALIA - SOUTH OF PERTH #11 #12 #13 I had to look for Tommy, stopping my survey in the karri forest. Anyway I did not find any new type of velvet worms - I was more lucky last month in New Zealand... #14a #14b Lucy called me this morning : "...It is about Tommy...his mother is dying, Peter. He must be back as soon as possible at Balgo Hills... He should be near Dongara in the botanical park, or in the Karijini Park...you know...as a ranger...and he still does not have any personal phone..." #15 From Manjimup, I would need about 1h30 to go to Perth Jandakot. There I will catch another plane I could load a lot of furniture for the Balgo Community, and I will try to find and pick up Tommy before the end of the day. It would take about 2 hours to fly to Geralton and 1 hour to drive to the Lessuer botanical park...1 hour to fly to Kalbarri, and finally 4h to fly East to Karijini...quite a long road...! WESTERN COAST #16 #16b #17 #18 I remember when Tommy told me while visiting Perth, how its Grand-Grand-Father T. Windich left the city with John Forrest, and all the details of the 6 months expedition along the Nicholson and Musgrave Ranges upto the Overland Telegraph Line near Lake Eyre : "His story is famous in the family...he had a very long scar on one arm due to a fight against a group of native hunters ... they were more than hundred and against only six - fortunately the terrific thunder of their guns has been so impressive that it affraid all the group......All the way they found spinifex, grassy plains or drift sand hills, sometime a fine pool of water...incredible journey...and they finally survived !" #19 #19a #19b #19c #19d #20a #20b I did not find Tommy at the Lessueur botanical park. The rangers told me he left a few weeks ago to Karijini... From Geralton, flight along the coast to Kalbarri (72 Nm at 337°) and next to a small airfield in Karijini NP (406Nm 40°) #21 #22 #22b #23 #24 Close to here, for its 50 years old birthday, we took him on a plane - landing on the NW Coastal Highway near Nanutarra Roadhouse on a specific part of the road enlarged for this purpose (normally only in case of emergency !) : he discovered the reef, enjoyed to snorkeling ...and met a whale-shark ! "Maybe Rai, the father of all fish, Peter, so huge !" #25 #25a #25b #26 #26a #26b -------------------------------------------------------- . . . SEE PART 2 COMING NEXTLY ! ----------------------------------------- (NB : Previous posts : Something Different #1 : How how I met Lucy on the Eastern Coast ... and travelled with her and a strange guy up to Wolfe Creek Crater, Peter, and their amazing adventures in Solomon Islands Something Different #3 :-D ... about the family of Lucy coming from Alaska in Something Different #4 ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VH-KDK Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 What a fascinating set Jean Marc. I thoroughly enjoyed looking at all of the pictures you have shown here. Some marvellous Australian scenery in the FSim views too. Very well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Farrugia Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 Wow Jean Marc that is a fascinating tribute to a great southern land! Kudos to you sir. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillwater Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 An outstanding post Jean Marc, right from dreamtime. With enough material and work in it for 5 postings and a week of reading! Did you take all the real life shots on your own during your travels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Sawyer Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 I'm amazed Jean Marc, this is awesome and must have taken days to put together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregmorin Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 Very interesting and well done! Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bernd1151 Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 A truly epic journey, thank you so much for taking us along Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean marc Posted August 25, 2018 Author Share Posted August 25, 2018 12 hours ago, VH-KDK said: I thoroughly enjoyed looking at all of the pictures you have shown here. Some marvellous Australian scenery in the FSim views too. Thank you very much Martyn. I was very happy to recognise in the ftx scenery the places and type of vegetation I saw during my trip ... and quite easily to put my pictures to show how it is similar...excepted in Hamelin / Mokey Mia and Karijini areas where it is to poor about the ocean/reef and rivers & cliffs relatively to real places (shots #25b / #26a & #26b) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean marc Posted August 25, 2018 Author Share Posted August 25, 2018 12 hours ago, Ray Farrugia said: Wow Jean Marc that is a fascinating tribute to a great southern land! Kudos to you sir. Very glad of your comment - thank you Ray. Great area, wildlife and culture mean a lot of matter to arrange easily a story ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean marc Posted August 25, 2018 Author Share Posted August 25, 2018 11 hours ago, Stillwater said: An outstanding post Jean Marc, right from dreamtime. With enough material and work in it for 5 postings and a week of reading! Did you take all the real life shots on your own during your travels? Yes Gerold my post are a bit long ... it is to provide a very... very time consumming reading :-D ! Here about 90% of the shots are mine from the travel (coming back with about 3000 pictures - a lot of landscapes & animals...) - the 10% from internet are mostly the wonderful aboriginal people pictures (#25a ...) and painting and of course old B&W pictures as well as the rare animals mouse / spiders / snake ...) (NB : for my previous post about Alaska and Solomon Islands there were all from internet as I did not yet travel there !!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean marc Posted August 25, 2018 Author Share Posted August 25, 2018 11 hours ago, Jack Sawyer said: I'm amazed Jean Marc, this is awesome and must have taken days to put together. Thank you Jack - indeed quite a few long evening and almost 2 full week-end...therefore I do not make many post ... But it is a real pleasure - a kind of second way to travel again in the place I visited or where I would like to go one day. Sometimes a bit difficult to arrange the story : trying to be not too long with so many things to tell or to show ! (About the Soviet/Alaska story, the difficulty was to suit with the real History !) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean marc Posted August 25, 2018 Author Share Posted August 25, 2018 11 hours ago, gregmorin said: Very interesting and well done! glad you like it Greg - thanks 10 hours ago, bernd1151 said: A truly epic journey, thank you so much for taking us along Thank you very much !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adambar Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 Lot of work went into this post, super job Jean Marc! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 Well done Jean Marc! You clearly put a lot of effort into this post . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikee Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 Great Shots Jean Marc , well done !!! Lot of work , I enjoyed it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillwater Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 11 hours ago, jean marc said: Here about 90% of the shots are mine from the travel (coming back with about 3000 pictures - a lot of landscapes & animals...) Fantastic Jean Marc. That must have been an outstanding tour - thank you for sharing it with us! 11 hours ago, jean marc said: it is a real pleasure - a kind of second way to travel again in the place I visited or where I would like to go one day. This is exactly what I feel when making these real-life-sim comparison posts. And our sims get better and better, thanks to some good scenery providers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teecee Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 Stunning post Jean Marc.. I have lived and worked in the Red Heart and the West but I saw nothing of it when compared to your post.. Thank you for all your hard work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jankees Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 that certainly brought back a lot of memories! wonderful post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wakashi Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 That is one intensive, in depth and well put together series Jean Marc! I cannot imagine the time and effort that you put into it (even though you stated that fact)! All of the commentary along with the pictures had me enthralled for a good while, gonna read it a again later! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean marc Posted August 27, 2018 Author Share Posted August 27, 2018 16 hours ago, teecee said: Stunning post Jean Marc.. I have lived and worked in the Red Heart and the West but I saw nothing of it when compared to your post.. Thank you for all your hard work Thank you Teecee, I am very glad you had pleasure with the screenshots of your own wonderful and HUGE country/continent ...It is probably necessary to have more than one life to discover all we could watch by there ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean marc Posted August 27, 2018 Author Share Posted August 27, 2018 15 hours ago, jankees said: that certainly brought back a lot of memories! oh yes ... and therefore so many things to tell and to show - that is the main difficulty when preparing the post : try to not be too long Also when I do not have good personal shots and look for on internet ... I find so many good pictures to use...another point is to select only the best ...that's why I put a lot of aboriginal paintings : all these are wonderful for me, with a distinctive touch of art,... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean marc Posted August 27, 2018 Author Share Posted August 27, 2018 15 hours ago, Wakashi said: That is one intensive, in depth and well put together series Jean Marc! I cannot imagine the time and effort that you put into it (even though you stated that fact)! All of the commentary along with the pictures had me enthralled for a good while, gonna read it a again later! Thanks! I am very happy you had pleasure to read it...and if you will read it a second time nextly... Personnally I have still a huge pleasure myself to watch the small inserts of the views, the all amazing animals, the baobabs, paintings... (and there are only a part of the about 3000 pictures I collected from my trip :)... (and same for the Siberia/Alaska or Salomon post : I like myself to watch it regulary I am my own spectator ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean marc Posted August 29, 2018 Author Share Posted August 29, 2018 adding the link to part 2 !!! here below Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthin Delahunt Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 That is truly incredible Jean Marc. You should submit this to the Australian Tourist board...Stunning. Anthin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean marc Posted September 1, 2018 Author Share Posted September 1, 2018 On 30 août 2018 at 11:14 PM, Anthin Delahunt said: That is truly incredible Jean Marc. You should submit this to the Australian Tourist board...Stunning. Thank you very much Anthin ! oh yes ! I would be happy to attract some people to go and visit this wonderful huge country Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yen Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 I live in Brisbane but do most of my flying (remotest I can find) in Western Australia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean marc Posted September 2, 2018 Author Share Posted September 2, 2018 22 hours ago, Yen said: I live in Brisbane but do most of my flying (remotest I can find) in Western Australia. that should be great to fly by there in RL - so wonderful landscapes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean marc Posted October 9, 2018 Author Share Posted October 9, 2018 for the Australian flight lovers, I inform you get free aeronautical charts VNC 1-500.000& VTC 1-250.000 pdf when you purchase australian MSE photoscenery (which are really excellent - I purchased Tasmania & Victoria and there are really good also for low altitude flights - to wait upto get the same and better in TrueEarth ftx coming maybe in a few yeas I would like to post some screenshots but it is not authorized ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean marc Posted February 27, 2021 Author Share Posted February 27, 2021 hello friends ! Just to remind the post ... and also well I 've just uploaded today 2 savage ultra shocks repaints for Australian flights at flightsim.to ... these 2 savages could be very convenient for somebody who would like to perform the same flight into msfs2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillwater Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 1 hour ago, jean marc said: Just to remind the post ... Good that you remind us... I now enjoyed this fascinating story once again. Thank you Jean Marc! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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