OK, W.E. here is my entry in the formation contest. Taken late afternoon in the Australian Alps and the hill in front is the location for the famous horse scene in The Man From Snowy River.
Here are a couple of photo taken in my neighbourhood just the other day. They show a sand storm over the water just south of us. Can you imagine flying and seeing that coming towards you??
While flying the coast yesterday, one of our group of three pilots suffered an engine-out and landed on a nice stretch of beach - which unfortunately happened to actually be a sand...
This year, my flying buddy Paul and I flew the "Grand Circle", a huge loop around the south...k at 20 deg F to cross the mountains before descending to Hooper's Pool near the Great Sand...