Due to the Federal Government's control of Virgin flights between Perth,
Christmas Is and Cocos Keeling, and apparent preference to refugee
transportation above tourism, my flight (and the subsequent day's fligh) from
Cocos to Perth has been cancelled, and it is now physically impossible for me
to make connection for 2 Dec departure of pelagic from Albany to Hobart. If
anyone wants to try to use my berth, and its a big maybe that this will work,
and preferably you can throw a proportion of cost my way, please contact me
off-line. Very very disappointed.
Good birds on Cocos have included Hodgson's Hawk-cuckoo, Asian Koel, Tiger
Shrike (different individual than the West Island bird, and mine was on Home
Island).
Still, very disappointing day today! Due to the large increase of boat-people
from Sri Lanka, I'd suggest anyone considering a trip to Cocos/Christmas to
consider their plans very cautiously. The problem is fuel - planes are zipping
back and forth to Colombo daily, with a measly 30 passengers per flight, as the
Sri Lankan Gov will only accept 30 per day! Where and how we got into this
quagmire...
John Weigel
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