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Pinski's Hot Air Balloon Adventures Hills Balloons Lagoons Pinski Pinski Zoom Zoom! |
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© Wayne Ashton May 2011
Welcome to the calm and languid Pinski journeys, take a joy-ride with a troupe of three: Pinski the dog, the pilot and the diver.
Here's what they do for a living. They turn up to a location, float at a hundred feet and perform a dive show for the small audience on the ground. The diver leaps from the basket into lagoons at dusk, lakes at night, rivers at midnight, bays at sunrise and off the beach at noon.
Hills, balloons, lagoons. Faster faster, Pinski Pinski, off to the starlit sky. Using a newly-minted clean fuel.
When the gig is finished they fly to the next gig.
It's tough work, but they like the job so much they hardly ever take a day off to rekindle a dwindling memory of dry land, so they turn up here, there and everywhere, all situations, all seasons. A hundred-foot hover for a minute or two, then splash!
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What's Onboard?
Hightech and Lowtech Sweets Onboard
The troupe carries a big variety of equipment in the balloon's basket.
Navigation sweets that rival NASA; a spare steering wheel; sack of pistachios, Pinski's favourite nut excepting the diver; collection of 38 shades (sunglasses) for Pinski for all situations; crates of mixed cool drinks; pies; papayas; tea kettle; dive suits; dry clothing; no fuel for hot air manufacture required, they use a new clean fuel - the smells and perfumes of innocence.
Rumour abounded on the ground at Rottnest after a recent circumnavigation of the island by the troupe that the basket somehow is an endless, bottomless pit of all their favourite things, a basket as deep as a three-storey house.
Wok; beds; DVD player; rare red wines; rare books; a powerful telescope; ice-cream maker; sea soap; regular soap; a cherry tree, the diver's favourite energy boost before a dive, cherries; a toaster; an oven; and the pilot's favourite, a chocolate-making gizmo - all powered by that new clean fuel, the smells and perfumes of innocence.
