Sunday the 19th August, was the Mareeba Warbirds Airshow. We headed out there and were surprised at the roll up. Mareeba was the staging ground for the American and Australian Army and Air Forces during the World War 2. Over 100,000 troops were located here and hundreds of aircraft, 1000's of tons of munitions, factories and equipment.
Mareeba is also the Northern Australia service base for MAF (Missionary Aviation Fellowship) repairing and servicing all of their aircraft from Timor, NT and New Guinea. MAF have recently purchased 5 four year old Cessna Skyvans from a Western Australia company who went into liquidation. These will provide a larger, more reliable aircraft where their 30+ year old aircraft are causing some reliability and service issues.
We got to go for a walk through their paintshop, workshops and office areas, and to chat to a great team of Christians who are using their God given gifts to earn their incomes, but build the Kingdom through "loving their neighbours' across the Southern Hemisphere.
Yesterday, Wednesday, we drove through Herberton and Mt Hypipamee National Park, where we stumbled across a cassowary mum and her three chicks.
We have another 10 days here at Atherton, before we move across to Cairns and Cooktown. We have been attending Atherton Baptist Church over the past couple of Sundays, but this coming Sunday we will head across to Atherton Northpoint Church where an old mate - Daniel Askey-Doran (ex Maroochy Baptist CHurch) and his family attend. It's great to share "the love".
Below are a few photos of our past few days.
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| Geoff and Gav in the cockpit of the DC3 |
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| The Cathedral Fig Tree in Danbulla State Forest |
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| A "Pitts Special burnout" |
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| The Curtain Fig Tree in Danbulla State Forest |
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| A mother rock wallaby and her baby came to say hello at Granite Gorge |
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| A Cassowary Mum and her three chicks - VERY RARE!! |
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