RAN Hosts International Fleet Review

[TarJak]

Excellent and quite funny in places, documentary on the 75th Anniversary in 1986:

TarJak, wife and kids ain't cheap to tote around bro. Amazing pics, thanks for sharing!!

[TarJak]

Now that makes more sense. One option is to leave them at home.

Have had a great time today. Parked north of the harbour and walked across the Harbour Bridge. Caught a ferry on the harbour to Watsons Bay where the wife and I had a relaxing seafood lunch at the pub right by the wharf with a view back towards the bridge. Couple of pale ales before heading back to Circular Quay on the ferry. Got some good shots from the bridge and out on the ferry so will post them when I return home.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by TarJak

Now that makes more sense. One option is to leave them at home.

Have had a great time today. Parked north of the harbour and walked across the Harbour Bridge. Caught a ferry on the harbour to Watsons Bay where the wife and I had a relaxing seafood lunch at the pub right by the wharf with a view back towards the bridge. Couple of pale ales before heading back to Circular Quay on the ferry. Got some good shots from the bridge and out on the ferry so will post them when I return home.

Now that sounds like the sort of 'busy' day I would enjoy

[TarJak]

From the Harbour Bridge:
RMS boat shipping buoys to keep the public boats out of the way of the big boys:


HMS Daring - UK:


HMNZS Te Mana - NZ:


RSS Endeavour - Singapore:


Will put more up from the bridge once I've had time to stitch together some panoramas and sifted through to find all the better shots.

[Jimbuna]

Watched the fireworks display live on Sky News

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Watched the fireworks display live on Sky News

Excellent. My shots came out less than great as I didn't have my tripod with me, so was hand held in the dark. This is the best of a bad bunch:


Lunch at the Watsons Bay Hotel on the other hand was much nicer. We sat under one of the brollys on the lower deck:

[TarJak]

Some from the ferry on the way to Watsons Bay:
PLANS Qingdao - China


From left to right: HMAS Yarra - Australia, NNS Thunder - Nigeria, HMS Daring - UK


HMAS Success - Australia


Bell 429, This was the official RAN camera helo:




From left to right: HMAS Leeuwin (With the Governor General and Prince Harry aboard, KRI Sultan Iskandar Muda - Indonesia, HMS Daring - UK:


USS Chosin:


HMS Daring:


F-18 Hornet:


Again plenty more to come. Just have to get the time to go through them all.

[TarJak]

Some Helo action; an RAN Huey:




Squirrel AS350BA & Taipan MRH90:






Bell 429:

[TarJak]

JDS Makinami - Japan:


FNS Vendémiaire:

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by TarJak

And that's probably a good thing until you are 18. No offense but your parents might not like me.

True statement. At the subsim meet, we had to tell TJ to tone it down a wee bit.

[nikimcbee]

Good to see the Kiwi's battleship there.

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

True statement. At the subsim meet, we had to tell TJ to tone it down a wee bit.

What's this post doing in my thread?

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by TarJak

What's this post doing in my thread?

So Cybermat knows who to look for at fleetweekreview.

With everyone dress liked this:, it can be a wee bit hard to spot someone.

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

So Cybermat knows who to look for at fleetweekreview.