But first -
I don't want to drag it out too much but we travelled over to the Lilydale airport via Healesville. Which isn't really a way to get there as you go through where the airport is to get to Healesville but I had a birthday voucher from the RACV Club so we decided to make a bit more of a day of it by having lunch at the Club first. The RACV Club at Healesville is really very smart and the food always excellent. So Donna and I detoured to Healesville first. Donna had a superb looking T-Bone steak with steamed greens as a side while I had the more adventurous Braised Duck Gnocci which was unusual. In that I mean that the gnocci was unusual not the duck. It was unusual as instead of being smothered in either a creamy or tomato sauce it was cheesy with a very light sauce. All to make the duck the star of the meal, which it was. Both choices excellent and the view from the windows of the Club out to the ranges it is nestled in as always spectacular. I do like it up there.
Enough food talk, the flight I hear you say. I was given a 20 minute joy ride of the Yarra Valley. A tiger moth is a very small plane from the first world war era. An open cabin bi-plane, they are noisy and windy. At the place where I did it they try to got you into the feel of the era as well by supplying an old style leather flying jacket and of course the leather head gear and goggles. They are so much fun, they feel all the changes in the breeze but are at the same time ultra manoeuvrable. We zig-zagged our way across the valley and turned some circles just for fun. As you can see in one of the photos below there isn't much visibility, either in front or out the side. I wanted to be about 30CM (1foot) taller.
I so enjoyed the flight I would like to do some of the more adventurous flights like their aerobatics one where you get to do a loop. That would be fun. Anyway for now I've thoroughly enjoyed this flight. Thank you family.
