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DHA(00001) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

DHA(00003) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

DHA(00005) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

DHA(00006) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

DHA(00007) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

DHA(00009) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

DHA(00010) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

DHA(00011) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

DHA(00012) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

Wow...the great outback. Wonderful shots, particularly love the second to last one.

Splitpin wrote:Wow...the great outback. Wonderful shots, particularly love the second to last one.

I love the outback, this is a flight from Marble Bar (visible in the 2nd image) to Hillside in the Pilbara, I think I've driven every single road and path you see in these images in real life, it's amazing the amount of detail in the sim nowadays

JK, I always pictured you being in Europe....you're an outback fella?

Splitpin wrote:JK, I always pictured you being in Europe....you're an outback fella?

deep in my heart...
No, I'm a European, living in Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden, but I'm also a geologist working for a university, and over the past 35+ years I've done fieldwork in many locations, mainly in Europe, but I've also spent many of our summers/their winters in Australia as well, including many trips to the Pilbara, usually in a ~150 km radius around Marble Bar. I must have driven 1000's of km's there, on- and off road.
In the second picture you see the town of Marble Bar in the background, but the buildings left of the aircraft, with the light roads around it, was our base camp. It was actually the nursery for Outback Trees of Australia, but the founder of that company, a geologist himself, always let us stay there. Here's the real thing: https://www.outbacktrees.com.au/nursery.
Happy memories...
well, apart from the king brown I stood on, and the heat and the dust, and the mosquitoes after the rains, and that aggressive camel, and the 3rd flat tire of the day, and being stuck in the bull dust, you know what I mean..

jankees wrote:

Splitpin wrote:JK, I always pictured you being in Europe....you're an outback fella?

deep in my heart...
No, I'm a European, living in Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden, but I'm also a geologist working for a university, and over the past 35+ years I've done fieldwork in many locations, mainly in Europe, but I've also spent many of our summers/their winters in Australia as well, including many trips to the Pilbara, usually in a ~150 km radius around Marble Bar. I must have driven 1000's of km's there, on- and off road.
In the second picture you see the town of Marble Bar in the background, but the buildings left of the aircraft, with the light roads around it, was our base camp. It was actually the nursery for Outback Trees of Australia, but the founder of that company, a geologist himself, always let us stay there. Here's the real thing: https://www.outbacktrees.com.au/nursery.
Happy memories...
well, apart from the king brown I stood on, and the heat and the dust, and the mosquitoes after the rains, and that aggressive camel, and the 3rd flat tire of the day, and being stuck in the bull dust, you know what I mean..

I envy you all being able to travel to and living all parts of the world. I my time in the military I was able to see a goodly bit of the Caribbean and a bit of Europe (UK, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy), but have wanted very much to visit/explore New Zealand, Australia, Oceania, and the very southern parts of South America. Alas, too old now and make do with MSFS, Google Earth, and the internet.