My wife and I just returned from a 3 week trip to Eastern Australia and New Zealand. A highlight of our trip was an Australia BCP Meet-Up with TIm (Drifter Driver). Tim had provided us with some great local info while I was planning our trip and we made plans to catch up in person. We met up with Tim at the local airstrip near Byron Bay then met some local aviation characters and watched tourists attempt to skydive. Niccole and I both went for flights in the famous Drifter. She was pretty hesitant to get back in the ocean after seeing all the "sea life" from the air....

A few pics from the flights:






After flying we spent the afternoon on the river trying to catch some flathead. I was lucky enough to catch a small one, TIm caught a stick and unfortunately my wife didn't catch anything


Pretty cool to see how the BCP community is world-wide. TIm I owe you a salmon trip whenever you make it to the US, it was great to meet you and your wife..

Man, you guys are lucky you did not get snatched by one of those salt water crocks hang'in out in the billabong.

nah corcs wernt a worry at all! was a bloody big stick I caught, was going to use it to fend the buggers off! had barnacles and all! infact I rekon pulling it in on 10 pound line showed great skill! but catch of the day defiantly went to Matt with his flatty!





Had an absolute ball catching up with Matt and Nicole and cant wait to do it again! Cant wait aswell to catch up with any more of you to!

Will get to show the rest of you what areal pub feed is

Looks like a great trip! Thanks for sharing the pics, that water is beautiful.

Too cool!

fern_hopper wrote:.... Niccole and I both went for flights in the famous Drifter. She was pretty hesitant to get back in the ocean after seeing all the "sea life" from the air....

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What kind of sea life-- sharks, crocs, ??

Tim, is that your home strip? Looks really nice.

hotrod180 wrote:What kind of sea life-- sharks, crocs, ??

Tim, is that your home strip? Looks really nice.

Not far enough north for crocs, but we saw a good few sharks, in this case reef sharks, tiger sharks, and wobbegong's. We also saw alot of sting rays.

On the more positive side we also saw dolphins!

And yeah that is my home strip, great place to fly out of, you depart right over the water

Fair dinkkum posty Maties.

I see the surf break "Shipwrecks". Great wave! Kind of like a tropical Santa Barbra, CA.

See you tomorrow Tim at Tenterfield.