As a 10 year old in 1968 i went their via a short Sutherland(Sandringham) flying boat from Rose bay Sydney. Thinking of going their this XMas. Anyone been in recent time/if so what was it like?
You weren't there 2 years ago, were you? http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/cover_stories/article_1586.asp
got money. few mates have LMCT's keen for me to tip money and buy cars'gut feel wrong time to be doing it.
This exhibition could bring back memories for you then: http://www.hht.net.au/whats_on/highlights/exhibitions/flying_boats
thats it. From memory the boats were sold to the actress Maureen O'hara and used and final destroyed in the Virgin islands?
Each one had a different fate from memory. The exhib tells all. But I'm too young to have seen them. I only got curious and checked it out when I found out Sydney's first international airport was where I lived on Rose Bay a few years ago.
and the passenger terminal building is still there, it now houses the restaurant "Catalina". A famous Australian flying boat pilot "Bull Garing" flew Sunderlands with great bravery in WW2. He found the children survivors of the "City of Benares" in the Atlantic ocean and defended their lifeboats from attack by German fighters. Imagine going up against fighters in a lumbering great seaplane! My father (9 years old at the time) was on a ship in the same convoy, but his wasn't torpedoed. Sea-planes still operate joy flights out of Rose Bay, I really like the De-Haviland Beavers, with their big radial engines. Its like flying in a WW2 aircraft, plus the thrill of a water take off. Not expensive and highly recommended for visitors to Sydney.