OFF WE GO - COME FLY WITH ME!

Qantas just recently introduced a new flight schedule from Sydney direct to Dallas, and back via Brisbane. We were on the second only such flight. If we had been on the inaugural flight we would  have had John Travolta meeting us in Dallas!

 

As you can see there is not much between Australia & the USA , just a very boring and cramped 16 hours, ( and  only 2 meals, they also ran out of bottles  of water! ) I was in agony for much of this time, the old back injury & sciatica proving the long flight to be  most uncomfortable.

But I was very excited when I first saw  land, and that land being Baja California. I was already interested in this barren and beautiful peninsula, with it's craggy islands, stunning coastline and colbalt blue & turquoise sea. The Sea of Cortez! And I knew what was down there in the sea - giant Manta Rays, White Pointer Sharks & Hammerhead Sharks, Whales,  I had seen all this and more on TV documentaries, and read John Steinbeck's  book ( The Log from the Sea of Cortez ) so Baja California has held a fascination for me.

I wanted to take photographs but alas my camera was  in my bag in the overhead locker,  and I was squashed next to two other people.  ( not Cameron - he had moved to  a roomier spot up the back )

But here is an idea of what I saw: ( these are NOT My photos )