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Jeanette I used to live at the southern end of Golden Beach, with the northern tip of Bribie directly opposite my waterfront flat and about 900 metres across the passage, and the F-111 you saw would have been one of the ones that used to do practice bombing runs along the beach side there.
There is an old concrete WW2 "bunker" (2 storey gun emplacement) on the beach there just a few hundred metres south of where I lived, they'd come along the surf side from the south, using the F-111's fantastic terrain following capabilities to fly quite low, then "bomb' the bunker before pulling up and away to sea.
Sadly they don't do this anymore. I think the fact that this attack line put them on a direct heading towards Caloundra headland and Bulcock / Kings Beaches, combined with the fact that the F-111's would cover the 3 kilometre gap in just seconds, put a lot of members of the public right off when they saw these things flying low and screaming right at them. I used to love watching them do these runs!
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