There’s no show like a Night Airshow

We left home at 1pm on Thursday and at 2pm on Friday we were walking in the gates of the Avalon International Airshow, what a way to start the trip.

We went straight in and found a great spot to set up and watch the airshow, it was freezing and the sun had not even set yet!

Due to covid, there had not been an airshow since 2019, so it was big, the whole weekend sold out. I was looking forward to the night show the most, Brett and the kids were looking forward to seeing the fighter jets.

The night show was nothing less then spectacular. A team of 8 parachuters jumped into the darkness and lit up the sky with flares they were wearing on their shoes, it looked like the sky was full of shooting stars. A rocket powered glider went up and gracefully put on a show with coloured streams of light coming off the wings and fireworks shot out from various areas of the plane, it was mesmerizing. The Hercules went up and demonstrated letting off flares and how this is used when under attack. The finale was epic, a 300m Great Wall of Fire. We could feel the heat from where we were sitting.

Then the show came to an end and OMG herds of people started running to leave, we sat and waited for a while, we were not in a rush and did not want to loose a child. I was freezing, so we eventually headed to the car. Seeing the grid lock in the car park and we realized we were not going anywhere anytime soon, so we all had a sleep in the car. Brett and I woke up 2 hours later and it was still a crawl to get out of the car park, but we slowly made it out and home to our beds at midnight.Read more