Three days later, on September 14, off the coast of Brisbane.
The mid-spring sunshine shines slantingly on the South Pacific, reflecting the colorful Great Barrier Reef quite brightly.
This is the middle section of the east coast of Australia, and it is also the end of the Great Barrier Reef. The Great Barrier Reef is a string of coral reefs along the continental shelf of the east coast of Australia, stretching hundreds of nautical miles from north to south, and is widely distributed.
Because there are thousands of reefs that protrude from the sea surface due to the rapid growth of corals, the color of the seawater here is extremely varied.
The shallower the water, and the higher the underwater corals grow, the more light green the sea water will be. The deeper the water, the thinner the corals, the darker the sea water will be.
This scene of scenery cannot be experienced by taking a speedboat or cruise ship on the sea.
Because the gradual change in the color of sea water must be at least several nautical miles or even more than ten nautical miles before there is an obvious difference. Looking at the sea, you will feel that the small piece of sea in front of you is the same color at any time. It takes more than ten minutes and half an hour for the boat to drive.
Finally, it turns slightly blue or green, which is not easy to detect.
However, if you observe it from the air, because the field of view can be expanded dozens of times at once, the magnificent scene will be very obvious.
You can see the entire sea under your feet, changing from green to blue, even slightly purple in the deepest part, and then gradually turning back to dark blue and light green. The color gradient is so delicate that it can be worthy of a "rainbow on the sea."
of good reputation.
At least the rainbow colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple are completely covered from the four colors of "green, blue, blue, and purple."
Fortunately, there is more than one helicopter on the yacht "Zhu Sen", so when passing by the Great Barrier Reef, every morning and dusk, Gu Kun will of course allow the attachés and female secretaries on board to go up to the sky to take a look and take a look.
wind.
(The Mi-26 helicopter is too big, and there is only one. It is used to transport the golden Maybach. There are other small helicopters, which cannot be loaded with trucks and can only carry people. They are usually parked in the lower hangar. It is enough for Gu Kun’s women and
Ministers go to heaven. Bodyguards and waitresses don’t have their turn.)
Early that morning, Gu Kun went for a ride with a few colleagues. They were riding an EC-135 ducted tail rotor helicopter. The noise reduction and muting effect was very good, and it had the elegance required by high-end customers.
"It's so beautiful. I'm afraid in Lanfang, no matter how beautiful you build the coral islands in Benma Reef, the quality of the seawater landscape will not be as good as here."
After taking a ride in the sky, Tang Jia, the foreign minister of Lanzhou, couldn't help but comment and spoke very straightforwardly. While talking, he couldn't help but take a deep breath and feel the salty wind.
Gu Kun didn't take it seriously when he heard this: "There is no way, the land of Lanfang is too small, this kind of 'rainbow on the sea' cannot achieve this effect without the huge coral reefs stretching for hundreds of sea miles.
It's like giving you only a few dozen square meters of area. No matter how exquisite you are, you can only make a Japanese-style garden with a frightening deer, but you can't make a Suzhou garden. We have our own style, there is nothing to envy."
Even from Gu Kun's point of view, he doesn't like those countries with dog-like dogs, but it must be fairly admitted that when it comes to coral reef scenery, the Great Barrier Reef does have advantages that even Lanzhou cannot match.
After wandering in the sky for a while and about to return to refuel, Tang Jia suddenly saw two more helicopters appearing on the horizon. He was slightly nervous and asked proactively: "Why are there helicopters here? Isn't it 100 nautical miles away from the coast? Isn't it?
What kind of patrol and interception aircraft is it?”
Gu Kun glanced disdainfully and found that it was not an armed helicopter, so he was not nervous at all: "It seems that this model is just for tourists. As far as I know, there are indeed many helicopter viewing projects for tourists on the Great Barrier Reef.
When we came all the way here, didn't we also see that occasionally some square platforms were built on some coral reefs on the sea? Those are actually helicopter landing pads. There are no buildings, just a square platform, a trestle, and some storage facilities.
Oil tank. You can refuel the helicopter that comes over for sightseeing and leave immediately."
Tang Jia recalled that he had indeed seen something strange on the sea along the way. It didn't look like a naturally formed platform. It was said to be man-made but there were no houses on it.
I didn’t expect that the Australians were really capable of causing trouble at those helipads that were originally used for sightseeing helicopters.
The lifestyle of rich tourists is so boring and they have nothing to do.
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Tang Jia didn't know that when she and Gu Kun were teasing about those Australian sightseeing helicopters in the sky, the tourists on those helicopters also discovered Gu Kun's plane, and soon discovered the yacht on the sea, and then they couldn't help but complain.
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"Why does that helicopter over there look so cool? It looks like the legendary Comanche. Compared with them, our crappy model looks like an Apache!"
On the plane was a wealthy businessman from Oceania weighing more than 200 pounds. He was obviously a photography enthusiast. His identity was a vice president of Fox Television. He was sitting on a helicopter with a telephoto lens hanging around his neck. He used the telephoto lens barrel as a cannon.
Using a telescope, you can easily observe the model of Gu Kun's aircraft.
The Comanche, which was originally planned to be the next generation of the Oceania Army's military in the future, is a ducted tail rotor with mostly obtuse-angled geometric irregular polygons. It looks very sci-fi. In contrast, the old-fashioned Apache is
It doesn't consider the aesthetics of science fiction at all, that's why tourists complain like this.
Now is the Olympic season. The Olympic Games will officially open in two days. Naturally, the number of European and American tourists coming to Australia has also increased significantly. The number of celebrities and wealthy people in various media circles is also overwhelming.
Before the official start of the competition, chartering a flight to the Great Barrier Reef for a few days has almost become the first choice for wealthy tourists. Therefore, the current gathering of wealthy people here can be described as a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger. There are just a bunch of guests who can afford to rent a sightseeing helicopter.
You can pick out the backbones/executives of Fox or CNN, the shareholders/founders of Internet companies, etc.
In this environment, if you show off your wealth and show off your power, the communication rate will be astonishingly high, making you the most eye-catching person on the planet at this moment.
Of course wealthy tourists will be unhappy when they see that the rental services provided by their own travel company are not as good as those provided by others.
Who the hell are you looking down on! Why didn’t you mention that there are such good and sci-fi-looking helicopters that can be rented when consulting on service projects? Just use those old aircraft that have been used for seven or eight years or even more than ten years to prevaricate us?
I can't afford this money, right?
Go ashore and complain that they concealed fraud during the introduction!
It must be that the best sources of goods in those travel companies have been rented out, but they do not tell consumers, fearing that high-end consumers who "only buy the most expensive, not the best" will look down on their unsalable substandard goods!
Unfortunately, before they had a chance to complain after landing, they saw another scene that opened their eyes even more.
A few minutes later, another female tourist on the same helicopter, whose identity seemed to be a website operator from some Oceanic country, saw a blue-gray shining shadow appearing on the horizon, and immediately made a fuss and exclaimed:
"OMG! What is that? Oh my God, when did the Great Barrier Reef Scenic Area provide such a service? Didn't it mean that there is no cruise ship tour here! I really can't believe what those travel companies say. Damn it."
The two-hundred-pound Fox TV executive immediately went to the window on the other side of the plane, leaned against the glass and watched for more than ten seconds, and then said with envy, anger and disdain:
"Tch, I have no idea. Do you think anything that big is a 'cruise ship'? It looks like a private yacht! Look at the superstructure, it looks a bit like Paul Allen's. It can't be Paul Allen's playboy.
Are you here to watch the Olympics? This guy is really enjoying himself in time."
The reason why his tone was envious, jealous and angry was obviously because he was being compared. But the anger was mixed with disgust because he was richer, more knowledgeable and knowledgeable than the female customer from the Internet company on the same plane.
This is the daily mentality of people who are better than others and have more than enough.
It's like I am semi-literate, but if I have the chance, I still have to say: "Huh! I graduated from high school! Who is in the same category as you, a rubbish with a primary school education!"
The female director of the website was criticized and did not dare to refute. She was indeed a nouveau riche and did not understand the lifestyle of the aristocracy. She weakly said to herself: "It turns out to be a private yacht... It's so far away, but it's a pity that I can't see how big it is.
Those Internet tycoons are really rich."
She didn't forget to emphasize secretly that "the other party is a wealthy Internet businessman". After all, according to their inner circle knowledge, such a big ship is either Paul Allen's or Larry Ellison's, no.
There may be a third.
Whether you are the co-founder of Microsoft or the founder of Oracle, isn't that the glory of the "Internet circle"?
It seems that by emphasizing this point, the female website manager can regain some face in front of traditional media executives.
Because the heading angles of both sides were quite similar, the helicopter and Gu Kun's "Zhu Sen" were getting closer and closer.
After they watched jealously for a minute or two, the two sides were already close to only seven or eight nautical miles apart.
Viewed with the naked eye from the sky, the size of the "Jusen" has also changed from the size of a fingernail to the size of a palm (a ship of more than 200 meters long is indeed that big when viewed from 10,000 meters). At the high times of the long barrel
In the focus lens, the picture is even clearer, and you can even see figures moving on the deck.
The Fox photography enthusiast was about to take a photo when he noticed that the body of the helicopter he was riding in shook and then lost its angle.
"Hey! Why did it turn! Come closer, I want to capture that scene!" The Fox executive immediately became anxious and shouted loudly.
"Sir, we are going to the apron on the left front. The direction you mentioned is not in line with the planned route. It would not be good to change it without authorization." The helicopter pilot of the travel company explained politely, as if he also knew that the guest was very rich.
, I don’t want to offend you, I’m so patient because of the high tip.
"Leave me closer! It's not like you don't have enough fuel! What's wrong with just taking a short detour in these few seas? I want to take pictures, so this is your tip!" The Fox executive was very happy. He knew how to solve these problems and just paid for it.
If you give a bunch of dollars to shake around, I'm afraid you won't end up with a few thousand dollars.
This is not only a tip for the pilot, but also takes into account the extra fuel and rental time fees for the helicopter's slight detour.
As an executive of a news organization, it is a common practice to spend money to get news.