The “Long delays” prophecy was fulfilled today, when it took us four hours (from home) to…

…get into the Avalon Airshow. Very happy to have the car’s Autopilot take care of most of the driving, along the highway and then through the walking pace bumper to bumper final few kilometres.

The car park was quite a dustbowl. By the end of the day, our hair, skin and clothes had a mixture of car park dust, aviation fuel fumes, and a touch of sunscreen. Mmmm.

The show was amazing. Even understanding the physics, it’s still unbelievable how we can get tonnes of metal to zoom around the sky.

We spotted a few electric buggies transporting VIPs, one electric bus, and even an electric powered tank and fighter jet (see the photos to figure out the twist 😉).

But, still dozens of diesel buses and a few petrol buggies, pouring too many fumes into the packed crowd. But, hey, I think the aircraft exhausts may have overshadowed it all. And of course the “wall of fire” opening act that created an apocalyptic wall of black smoke (pictured).

We mainly went to meet up with two of our adult kids, who had driven from Wagga Wagga and flown from the Central Coast.

Charging:

We left home with about 96% battery, charged up yesterday from solar. Tonight we’ll just plug the car back in to charge up again from solar tomorrow. Love it.