Daffy Flight

Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Fri 15 Aug 2014 22:57
Our Picturesque Flight on Daffy the Sea Plane
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Out for our bimble along the shore of Lake Te Anau from our campsite, we saw the office of Wings and Water. Neither of us have taken off from or landed on the water, I asked Bear if he would like to. Weeeeeellllllllll. I went to take a further step and heard it would be a wow wouldn’t it. Foot changed direction mid air and pointed it toward the office. Allan welcomed us and we arranged for a flight at half past two. This gave us chance to nip back to Mabel for the other cameras. We took off from Lake Te Anau in Daffy – named by Allan not us, he told us there are only five like her in New Zealand, and turned toward the mountains. We saw tarns and burns, rivers and fiords, hills and snow, Allan pointed out all the features and named the various peaks, showing us the Milford Road – today not a snowflake in sight, the power lines from the power station and took us over both the Doubtful and Milford Sounds. Words do little to describe what we saw so we leave it to the pictures. Allan told us some wonderful flying stories of his time in Fiji, saving a little boys life, taking off with a nurse and a passenger and landing with two ladies and a baby. Allan doesn’t do photographs so I had to grab him as we said our ‘thank you’ and ‘farewell’.
 
 
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ALL IN ALL SO MANY WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE BEAUTY
                     WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE