About Balloon Joy Flights - Canowindra Balloons
Our Story
Our Flying AreaOur home base is on our farm vineyard 8 kilometers North of Canowindra. This is approximately four hours drive from Sydney and two hours from Canberra. We conduct our flights around and over Canowindra in the central west of NSW between Orange and Cowra. Launch sites vary according to the wind direction on the day so as to make every flight a scenic and memorable experience. We also travel to festivals throughout Australia and have even travelled to farms throughout NSW to fly families over their own properties. |
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Our Pilot
Graham Kerr (our Chief Pilot) has been flying hot air balloons as a commercial pilot since 1988 and he has over 1000 hours experience flying in most states of Australia. Commercial pilots are licenced by The Civil Aviation Safety Authority and as such are subject to regular medical checks and bi-annual flight reviews. Graham has experience in many aspects of commercial ballooning including passenger flights and aerial promotions for sponsors. He is also an Australian Balloon Federation Instructor.
Flight Options Available
All flight options listed below finish with a presentation flight certificate and a catered champagne breakfast with espresso coffee at our own winery. We also cater for non flying accompanying friends.
Jan Kerr: Marketing Director
Jan, originally trained as a registered nurse, has long experience in marketing, firstly as a marketing executive with a Sydney medical technology company, then in promoting and developing their food and ballooning businesses in Canowindra. Following the sale of the food business she was appointed a marketing representative for Blayney Foods, a position which she resigned in April 2003 to concentrate full time on marketing for Toms Waterhole Wines and Balloon Joy Flights. Jan is intimately involved inlocal and regional tourism.
Our Other Services
Contract Winemaking
We are equiped to ferment small batches of handmade wines from one to five tonnes of either handpicked or machine harvested fruit. Many larger grapegrowers from the Cowra Wine Region have called upon our services to produce wines for bottling under their own label. Some of these have been exported in the past to Japan and Germany.
Grape Processing
Winemakers from outside the region, who purchase Cowra Region grapes, have used our crushing and juice stabilising facility. We are interested in talking to you about your requirements.
Organics
Toms Waterhole winery is Organically Certified as processor by The Biological Farmers Association of Australia. Our certification number is 10153P. We have produced Organically Certified wines for the last five years. We continue in our persuit of raising the quality image of organic wines in Australia. In addition we have developed the know how to produce both white and red “No added Preservative” (NAP) organic wines. We are interested in discussing you organic and NAP winemaking requirements with you.
Private bin labelling
We can organise to label any of our wines for special occasions. Weddings, birthdays, reunions, product launches, corporate giveaways are among the many we have done. Have you ever wanted to put your own picture on a wine bottle? If we can help you make your occasion more special and memorable click on the contact us button below.
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