It pays to look up.

We had a house sit not far from Tamworth. We found after a while that the sky around that area was most unusual. It seems to be on the main flight path for many destinations, and often we would go outside and see vapour trails going in every direction.

You can see in the photo above, when we were not far from a cute little town called Nundle, one vapour trail in the sky, and you can see the turn the plane was making.


The most unusual thing though was that this seemed to be the place that everyone turned. Quite often we would see up to six or seven vapour trails, some of them new like the one above or some of them old and all spread out like the one below. There are at least three vapour trails below, but they have been there some time and are gradually disintergrating.

 It became a habit of ours everytime we went outside to look up and check the sky. This is probably old hat to those who live in the area, but to us, it was a real source of interest, to see how many planes had turned overhead in the last hour or two. Mornings were the best time. We were only a couple of hunded kilometers from Sydney, so probably many of these planes were interntional ones getting their flight paths lined up for landing.

How often do you look up and see what's going on up in the sky?