We were up
early this morning as we had our morning helicopter flight booked in for 9am.
We packed up the van and headed out to the helipad which took us a lot less
time than we thought so we were there before the pilots. Anyway they arrived
soon after and explained that they had to do a 20 minute safety check before we
took off. Rob said seeing it was Friday the 13th, could they make it
a 25 minute check! Anyway all went extremely well and we loved the 20 minutes
we spent in the chopper. Our NZ born pilot was fantastic and very informative.
Carnarvon Gorge is actually a “no fly” zone so our flight took us over farm-land,
past spectacular sandstone ridges to Moolayember Gorge. This gorge is only accessible
from the air so we felt very privileged being able to view this spectacular
place. After this wonderful experience we drove onto Roma, arriving around
lunchtime. We set up the caravan and then headed into town. Roma is famous for
so many things but one of them is such a gem and that is Ace’s Haberdashery. We
had visited this amazing shop last time we were here and even Rob didn’t mind
returning to it again. There was a slight problem in that we couldn’t quite
remember where it was so we checked it out on Google. Google gave the address
and said it was open but when we walked to the place google suggested it didn’t
look right. For one thing it was closed, with the windows all covered in
curtains or paper and to us it seemed like it was on the wrong side of the road
and too close to the centre of town. Anyway after much confusion we asked a
local and she directed us to THE SHOP about 400 metres down the road on the
opposite side. We were pretty happy to know we weren’t going mad. Anyway we had
fun poking around and purchased a few things. When we went to leave, we were
served by the owner and we told him the story. He was not that techno savvy
(you could tell by the 20 year old computer he was using) and explained that
the family owned the other shop and it was once used many years ago but is no
longer used. He had tried to edit the google entry but was not successful. Rob
was happy to help him out and altered it so the address was correct and also
the business hours were correct as these too were wrong. I think because Rob
regularly does google updates and reviews that it happened almost straight
away. The owner was very appreciative of Rob’s efforts and sent him a lovely
email of thanks. We then went off to shop and get fuel ready for our home-ward
journey.
Although it wasn't our flight, this video took very similar flight path to others
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