Barnstorming McLaren Vale

[JamieBahrain]

What fun. Victory Hotel and taking a lightie for a spin around the southern vales.


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The d'arenberg Cube.

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Aldinga beach ... I think. Rolling back toward the Victory Hotel.
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600m strip next to Grenache vines. Some of the guys thought it a bit short- a good pilot can land across it I said later over a beer at The Victory.


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Time to retire and get an airplane and live in a beautiful Aussie wine region. What a lifestyle!

[felixp21]

Nice Jamie!!!
God's country down there, by the look of those pics.
PS, pretty nice up here at the moment, how good was the weather today!!!!!

[Chuck]

Great pics. Adelaide and surrounding wine regions are at their best in spring. Warm days cool nights. Little humidity. Low pollution unlike Hong Kong where it stunned me when transiting through recently. You couldn't see anything outside the airport. I wonder how much it reduces average life expectancy.

[Scotty vino]

Great pics. Adelaide and surrounding wine regions are at their best in spring. Warm days cool nights. Little humidity. Low pollution unlike Hong Kong where it stunned me when transiting through recently. You couldn't see anything outside the airport. I wonder how much it reduces average life expectancy.

Speaking of life expectancy I love the smoking pens (oh sorry 'lounge') you see set up in some Asian airports.
My chest always tightens when i walk past.

Great pics Jamie. Always such a different perspective from the air. Looks peaceful.

Did you buzz the cube?!

[felixp21]

Great pics. Adelaide and surrounding wine regions are at their best in spring. Warm days cool nights. Little humidity. Low pollution unlike Hong Kong where it stunned me when transiting through recently. You couldn't see anything outside the airport. I wonder how much it reduces average life expectancy.

if "recently" means this time of the year, much more likely to be sea haze. Pollution is low at this time of the year, but it is bad come January-March, when the North winds prevail and we get the crap from the middle of China.
the sea haze can make HK/SZ look very polluted, but that is just the grey colouring.
today, we are at air pollution index of 59, Sydney right now at 51

[Scotty vino]

Great pics. Adelaide and surrounding wine regions are at their best in spring. Warm days cool nights. Little humidity. Low pollution unlike Hong Kong where it stunned me when transiting through recently. You couldn't see anything outside the airport. I wonder how much it reduces average life expectancy.

if "recently" means this time of the year, much more likely to be sea haze. Pollution is low at this time of the year, but it is bad come January-March, when the North winds prevail and we get the crap from the middle of China.
the sea haze can make HK/SZ look very polluted, but that is just the grey colouring.
today, we are at air pollution index of 59, Sydney right now at 51

I just checked Adelaide.....6...

[felixp21]

true, Scotty, the air in SA is pretty darn fine!! Actually, there is not much to dislike about SA, other than Port supporters (no wonder Burto was so unhappy to get traded hehehe) You could do a lot worse than spend your life in the Barossa or McLaren Vale, it is indeed God's country.
however, the literature would suggest that you only really need to worry when the API gets over 100, perhaps even over 150.
Beijing regularly hits 400+, glad I no longer go there frequently.
Supposedly, there are parts of Russia that are extraordinarily polluted, but unca Vlad won't let the monitors in

[JamieBahrain]

Low pollution unlike Hong Kong where it stunned me when transiting through recently. You couldn't see anything outside the airport. I wonder how much it reduces average life expectancy.

This is a troubling topic for me because it's not handled responsibly by government and society.

" I wonder how much it reduces average life expectancy

Well it doesn't ( yet ). Hong Kong has a very high life expectancy. And the politicians and society run with this.

Hong Kong has a serious pollution issue and most of it is locally sourced despite the proximity to the Pearl River industrial basin. The most polluted area of Hong Kong is the airport in some measurements, though areas affected by heavy roadside pollution fair worse in other measurements There are two measurements of air pollution- the government and Green Peace which differ of course.

I owned property in the heart of Hong Kong which I didn't want to sell though did, to move my family to the country areas of Sai Kung, where air quality is not affected by roadside pollution. It's dramatically different though certain contaminants will prevail.

Australia has different problems I guess. The sun. I reckon I look younger than most Aussies my age.