As luck would have it, Camo's flatmate is a pilot, which coincided nicely with a beautiful day and the loose plans we'd made to visit Rottnest Island. This was my first experience in a light aircraft, in this case a four-seater Cessna 172. It really did feel like taking to the skies in a small car - you can really feel the aerodynamics of the plane. In a strange way this made me feel extremely safe and comfortable; I will say that the large eagle we came within metres (well, metre) of hitting did not. Nor did the cross-runway gust that had us landing on one wheel on Rottnest. But it was all handled in style by our pilot Anmol, who's only concession to the interesting nature of this flight was to laugh and admit "If we'd hit that eagle, we were f---ed".
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