Flight to Johannesburg

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On Thursday we flew to Sydney and stayed at Rydges right next to the International Terminal. We dined at Rydges with John's friend, Peter Houghton, who bought some wines to share with John in reciprocation for a wine John had brought to give to Peter. We paid for his dinner.

The flight to Johannesburg was due to leave at 9:30am Friday. We walked the short distance to the terminal and checked in our luggage. And after going through security, we had plenty of time to find some healthy breakfast and to buy a couple of items we had left behind!

The gate we boarded from was being redone so we had to join a huge standing line through the eatery area. The line moved pretty quickly, and we were soon seated in seats 81 A and B. The plane left about 30mins late.

I watched two movies:- Penguin Lessons and Fall Guy. John watched movies too, but cannot remember the titles.

Food
- lunch was at 11am - beef and roast potato with bread followed by a Magnum ice-cream!
- Tim Tam snack
- pretzel snack
- tea was a small quiche
- supper was stir fry with noodles
After flying for 14:40 hours we landed on time which was 4:30pm local time (the same date we left).
The passport line up was huge. We then got our luggage and emerged to look for our EZ Shuttle driver. When we found him the other two Bellarine Birders - John Renowden and Rob Sheppard were already there.

Our accommodation was at Wild Tree Lodge. Kelly was there to greet us and show us to our rooms. We were upstairs in the main house.
She organised a driver for the next day to take us into Johannesburg.
It was a long day with little good sleep, so went to bed at 8pm.Läs mer