Self-Flying the Australian Outback and Island Hopping Down the Great Barrier Reef

About the Book

Leaving Melbourne on August 22, 1978, and returning September 5, 1978, our six plane safari covered the eastern half of Australia from Melbourne in the southern Province of Victoria, west across the Province of South Australia to Ayers Rock in the Province of Northern Australia, northeast to the Gulf of Carpenteria in the Province of Queenslland, and east to Cairns on the Pacific Coast. Then south down the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea. Re-entering the mainland at Mackay we flew southeast across the Province of New South Wales back to Melbourne, a distance of almost four thousand miles,

About the Author

Barbara L. Feader Not allowed to attend school until age twelve, I was placed in sixth grade. because I could read. Failing to get the basics in English, grammar, arithmetic, and other subjects, I quit school, since I could not do my homework. I married a local farm boy and had two children by age twenty. A married woman needed approval from the state of Alabama to go to school, which I got when my second child started to school. But it wasn’t until age forty-eight that I followed my real calling, and became a commercial, instrument rated airplane pilot.