Latest Imageshttps://www.motorgliders.org/gallery/album/85-lozzer/Latest ImagesenCamping at Smith point Northern Territory Australiahttps://www.motorgliders.org/gallery/image/781-camping-at-smith-point-northern-territory-australia/This shot is of my son and I camping with the Dimona at Smith Point. We camped on the airfield about two hours flying from Darwin in Australia's Top End on the coast, but first had to chase grazing bantang off the strip. These are cattle from Java in Indonesia which roam wild in the area.

Shortly after we arrived a Cessna departed. Sadly, it was carrying counselors back to Darwin who had flown in to support the local National Park staff following the taking of a diver by a croc the day before.

Note the mosquito nets!

Camping at Smith point Northern Territory Australia

]]>781Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:19:50 +0000Dimona Landing at Emkayteehttps://www.motorgliders.org/gallery/image/780-dimona-landing-at-emkaytee/Emkaytee is a small landing strip about an hour south of Darwin in the Northern Territory in Australia's tropical north or Top End as its known.

The area is littered with overgrown WW2 airstrips, often built by US military forces. Darwin was the only Australian city bombed by the Japanese using over 240 planes in multiple attacks over one day.

Huge tracts of the Top End are also littered with termite mounds which must be regularly graded from airstrips. They number dozens to the acre and often stand 6' high. This makes emergency landings a little more challenging.

Dimona Landing at Emkaytee

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