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First touch down in Australia - Bankstown Airport, Sydney - from Noumea to Sydney for the first time in my trip I had head winds as strong as 50kts; due to the slow progress over water I diverted and flew over land at Coffs Harbour. I left Noumea at night at 3am on a IFR plan for Sydney. The ATC operator in Noumea, a Cessna pilot, too was very chatty and kept me radio company for over an hour. Nandi took over and in early hours of the morning handed my radio work over to Brisbane. As I expected once under Australian radio work over waters I was asked to double my position reports to half hourly. that was quite welcome as it made the time go faster and I did not feel as lonely.
Overflying Syney for landing at Kingsford Smith Airport
Landing on ILS at Sydney International Airport on runway 16L paralel with a passanger jet on final to runway 16R, the longest runway in the Southern Hemisphere.
Departing Sydney International Airport at night with a short scenis flight over the city
Overflying Centre Point Tower at 2100ft, towards Harbour Bridge.
Arriving to the Australian shore at Coffs Harbour at the end of the Pacific Ocean Crossing
With the police and the airport security (photo taken by the army hours after my landing). Shaken from the violent storms I decided to make an unscheduled stop in Suva, the capital city of Fiji. As I did not have a prior landing approval and I refused to declare an emergency, my arrival in a US registered aircraft and wearing a US Air Force flightsuit caused a national security alert. I was visited, questioned and doubted the authenticity of my Australian passport by the airport officials, airport security, police, army, health department, etc. The plane was photographed every inch and my documents were copied again and again and again. I was detained and slept on the Suva international tarmac asphalt, suffering from severe dehydration without access to water or food for twenty hours. I quickly became confused due to dehydration as I was sweating in a thick hypothermia flightsuit in high temperature and humidity climate. Eventually thanks to the intervention of the South African officials and with some help from the Australian High Commission I was given water and cleared to go to the motel to rest. In addition, after beeing asked to pay some of the most atrocious and unreasonable fees I have encountered in a small aircraft anywhere I flew, it was one of my most unpleasant experience ever - a place never to visit again. (At the end of the day it could have been worse - I could have landed in French Polynesia and be eaten by cannibals as it still happens to German yachtsmen today.)
First touch down in Australia - Bankstown Airport, Sydney - from Noumea to Sydney for the first time in my trip I had head winds as strong as 50kts; due to the slow progress over water I diverted and flew over land at Coffs Harbour. I left Noumea at night at 3am on a IFR plan for Sydney. The ATC operator in Noumea, a Cessna pilot, too was very chatty and kept me radio company for over an hour. Nandi took over and in early hours of the morning handed my radio work over to Brisbane. As I expected once under Australian radio work over waters I was asked to double my position reports to half hourly. that was quite welcome as it made the time go faster and I did not feel as lonely. 
Overflying Syney for landing at Kingsford Smith Airport
Landing on ILS at Sydney International Airport on runway 16L paralel with a passanger jet on final to runway 16R, the longest runway in the Southern Hemisphere.
Departing Sydney International Airport at night with a short scenis flight over the city 
Overflying Centre Point Tower at 2100ft, towards Harbour Bridge.
Arriving to the Australian shore at Coffs Harbour at the end of the Pacific Ocean Crossing
With the police and the airport security (photo taken by the army hours after my landing). Shaken from the violent storms I decided to make an unscheduled stop in Suva, the capital city of Fiji. As I did not have a prior landing approval and I refused to declare an emergency, my arrival in a US registered aircraft and wearing a US Air Force flightsuit caused a national security alert. I was visited, questioned and doubted the authenticity of my Australian passport by the airport officials, airport security, police, army, health department, etc. The plane was photographed every inch and my documents were copied again and again and again. I was detained and slept on the Suva international tarmac asphalt, suffering from severe dehydration without access to water or food for twenty hours. I quickly became confused due to dehydration as I was sweating in a thick hypothermia flightsuit in high temperature and humidity climate. Eventually thanks to the intervention of the South African officials and with some help from the Australian High Commission I was given water and cleared to go to the motel to rest. In addition, after beeing asked to pay some of the most atrocious and unreasonable fees I have encountered in a small aircraft anywhere I flew, it was one of my most unpleasant experience ever - a place never to visit again. (At the end of the day it could have been worse - I could have landed in French Polynesia and be eaten by cannibals as it still happens to German yachtsmen today.)