Ayr - Qld

[Tomo]

Flew to Ayr on Monday, and was pretty impressed! Nice little area... it looks good at least from the air!

 

Here's just a few photos I quickly took, sorry they aren't real good quality!

 

 

Looking towards Ayr township

 

 

 

Looking out to sea

 

 

The dirty water in the Burdekin river is from all the recent rain and flooding

 

 

 

The mouth of the river into the sea

 

 

Looking North towards Townsville

 

 

 

 

Yabby farm I think

 

 

The airfield, lit runway for night ops... so it's pretty flash! (no fuel bowser though)

 

 

[Doug Evans]

love North Queensland

 

 

[RKW]

Tomo, you do get around!

 

 

[Ballpoint 246niner]

Good one Tomo- worked there in the 80's at Inkerman Hill- between Ayr and Home Hill, tell you a funny story one day about up there.....

 

 

[rankamateur]

Worked there late 80's too Neil, DPI Little Drysdale Street, Good times at the cape(big hill out from river mouth)

 

 

[rankamateur]

Yabby farm is a prawn farm set between the salt and fresh water, breeding tiger prawns fed on chook pellets. They still taste like prawns but the texture is abit chewy. I used to test their water when their gear broke down, for a bag of prawns. Good times at Ayr.

 

 

[Kodge]

Tomo, Moved to Ayr from Sydney in 1982 to take up a posting at the Ambulance Station, just planned to stay a year or two before transferring to another Ambulance Station. 27 years later, marriage to a local girl and 3 daughters later along with some good flying, I finally did leave Ayr and the Burdekin !!!. It's a place with the people that certainly gets to your heart.

 

Did you catch up with Hoffo and the crew at the Ayr Aerodrome ?

 

Kody

 

 

[dunlopdangler]

wondered where you got to..

 

 

[Ballpoint 246niner]

Worked there late 80's too Neil, DPI Little Drysdale Street, Good times at the cape(big hill out from river mouth)

Hey Rank did you know a Mark Savage who worked for Dalgety at that time- we flew Hang gliders together ?

 

 

[rankamateur]

Hey Rank did you know a Mark Savage who worked for Dalgety at that time- we flew Hang gliders together ?

Didn't know Mark, better chance I would know him now. I was a public servant then, didn't have any need for rural merchandise until I left in 1991 to come down here farming. Bert Larkin(?) was flying very basic gyros with 3 or 4 others off Homehill airstrip on Sunday mornings when I went out there with my RC Aeroflyte Hustler.

 

 

[J170 Owner]

Yabbies or Prawns - they are huge, they leave a wake like a speedboat as they tear about...

 

 

[rankamateur]

The wake you are seeing is the aeration jets in each pond, in hotter climates the oxygen is even less soluble in water so the aeration becomes even more important.

 

 

[eightyknots]

Good one Tomo- worked there in the 80's at Inkerman Hill- between Ayr and Home Hill, tell you a funny story one day about up there.....

 

 

Worked there late 80's too Neil, DPI Little Drysdale Street, Good times at the cape(big hill out from river mouth)

I visited Ayr in the early 1980s and what I remember best was this amazing butterfly and moth museum (for want of a better word). The Hercules Moths had a wingspan of around 350mm! (the curator said "twelve to fourteen inches" back then). I wonder if that is still there?

 

Great pictures, Tomo! Thanks for posting.

 

 

[Tomo]

wondered where you got to..

Hey!! Yeah it's been a while... I was in Dalby the other day though, in a Warrior... passing through...

 

Might get in there this Saturday afternoon and check out some of the hang gliders at the comp!

 

Thanks for all the comments guys, appreciated

 

 

[rankamateur]

This website

 

http://www.cairnsunlimited.com/ayr.htm

 

Still lists the butterfly museum as one of the attractions of the district.

 

Edit: Also lists Cape Upstart as a must see NORTH of Ayr, bit unfortunate since it is to the south nearly half way to Bowen, so I am not sure how good the info in the site is.

 

 

[eightyknots]

This websitehttp://www.cairnsunlimited.com/ayr.htm

Still lists the butterfly museum as one of the attractions of the district.

Thanks for that RA. I also noticed that they have (what I thought) was an air show. Alas, it is something else:

 

AYR SHOW

 

The Ayr Show brings displays of fruits, vegetables, cooking, handicraft and cattle. There will also be an equestrian program.