On Friday 1st March 2024 Garry Ayre and I flew to Nanango and Kingaroy, following the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail from Moore to Yarraman on the way.

It was my first landing at Nanango where there’s a well maintained 850m long grass strip.

It took about 30 minutes to walk into town where I left Garry in the RSL while I did a quick recce of the town in readiness for our cycle trip in April.

I decided the RSL was the best place for lunch so we settled in there for a BLT and a coffee. After lunch we caught a taxi back out to the airstrip, started up and took off, climbing to 3000ft for the 5 minute hop over to Kingaroy where Garry moved into the left seat for the return journey.

An RFDS King Air arrived with a patient while we were preparing for departure.

Taking off to the south east we passed by the Tarong Power Station and then retraced our tracks via Linnville to Kilcoy.

There was a head wind and it was very hazy west of Kilcoy on the way back due to a whole bunch of fires in the hills west of Dayboro. Nevertheless the surrounding country was still vivid green.

With Swiss timing precision that QANTAS can only dream of we landed at Redcliffe just in time for the monthly aeroclub barbecue!