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OT - Up, Up and Away!
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:04 pm
by Arjuna
Hi all. Just thought I would share with you the adventure I had early yesterday morning. I recently turned 50 and my wife, Joy, bought me a ride in a hot air balloon over our glorious city of Canberra. Here a sample of the shots I took. Enjoy.
Getting Inflated
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:07 pm
by Arjuna
Lending a helping hand before lift off.
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:08 pm
by Arjuna
All aboard.
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:11 pm
by Arjuna
A close up of the "flame-thrower".
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:13 pm
by Arjuna
New Parliament House.
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:15 pm
by Arjuna
The Australian National Museum at dawn.
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:17 pm
by Arjuna
Sunrise over Lake Burley Griffin.
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:19 pm
by Arjuna
Constitution Ave Bridge
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:21 pm
by Arjuna
The Yacht Club
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:23 pm
by Arjuna
City Centre with Mount Ainslie in the background ( we call our hills here mountains [;)] ).
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:25 pm
by Arjuna
The western foreshores of Lake Burley Griffin.
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:27 pm
by Arjuna
Climbing Higher
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:28 pm
by Arjuna
Up above Black Mountain Tower
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:30 pm
by Arjuna
The city before touching down.
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:31 pm
by Arjuna
Touchdown and wrapup.
RE: Up, Up and Away
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 11:14 pm
by EricGuitarJames
Signalling 'Game 6' in the AA series - 'Airborne Assault: Balloons over Canberra'[:D] Expect deep, meaningful discussions on the lift capacity of standard balloons and the effectiveness of the armour plating on the gondola against small arms fire from below.[&o][&o]
Good pics Dave, thanks for sharing[:)]
RE: Up, Up and Away
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:40 am
by Grouchy
Lol...yeah it was a spoiler. New futures in this game: Kamikazes and japanese balloon bombers over Ozzzz.
Though zee camo patterns of those balloons needs to be redone Dave!
Seriously looks like a country where i would want to live in
. Sun, blue skies and green forests.
All we got here currently is wind, snow and a temperature of -7 celcius. Lucky bastards!
RE: Up, Up and Away
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:16 pm
by JeF
ORIGINAL: Grouchy
Seriously looks like a country where i would want to live in
. Sun, blue skies and green forests.
All we got here currently is wind, snow and a temperature of -7 celcius. Lucky bastards!
[8|]
Well grouchy, you must live more north than I thought, because here in Belgium, during
Summer, we are used to Sun, blue skies and green forest as well. [;)]
No white Chrismas in Australia...
It reminds me of an Australian colleagues who came and worked for us. He spent some good days skying in the Alps in December, just before going home and surfing home. [8D]
JeF.
RE: Up, Up and Away
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:15 pm
by iaidoka2
As beautiful as it looks, any new game based in Canberra would have to be "Dying of Boredom in Canberra" - see if the enemy paratroopers can last longer than one hour after hitting the DZ before surrendering to boredom and the hostile intent of a town populated by politicians and hard core public servants[;)].
Arjuna wont like this.
RE: Up, Up and Away
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:08 pm
by Banquet
Fantastic pics! [:)]
You got a good eye for a shot and nice quality camera. You certainly get better visibility there than in the UK!
Pity about the strange guy with the Panthergames cap hogging the early shots (stalkers must be one of the downsides of being a successful wargame dev) but presumably he was used as ballast during the flight, as he doesn't appear in the later shots [:D]