Floating Images & Sustainability

As a long running family operated boutique ballooning business, Floating Images Hot Air Balloon Flights is committed to providing a professional and personal ballooning experience for all our guests to enjoy, ensuring sustainable tourism practices are undertaken (environmental, economic and social performance) whilst making minimal impact on the environment, embracing diversity and inclusion and supporting the community in which we service.

Hot Air Ballooning is an experience that embraces transformational travel for guests of all ages and walks of life; enabling guests to connect with themselves and one another whilst enjoying a “once in a lifetime” or “bucket list” experience celebrating personal occasions or milestones whilst sharing in an early morning sunrise, the wonders of nature awakening, and engaging with the surrounding environment and people around them.

Floating Images Hot Air Balloon Flights and our Founder and Chief Pilot for every flight has been sharing our boutique ballooning experience with all our guests for over 23 years and has been aloft in a balloon wicker basket as a Balloon Pilot for over 32 years; Graeme Day is passionate about ballooning and wishes to share it personally, professionally and safely with all.

Making a Positive Impact

Care for the Environment

Floating Images aims to protect, restore and promote sustainable use of our environment and endeavours to adhere to the Tread Lightly code of practice which is designed to minimize environmental impact.

The Tread Lightly Principles were developed to educate recreational users in caring for the environment and to assist in keeping areas and trails open for public use. The key principle being if we don’t care for the environment we will be restricted or locked out of these areas. Floating Images respects and appreciates all our landowners, local & state parks from which we are privileged to launch & land our balloon safely with our balloon support and passengers.

We believe it is our obligation to take environmental steps across all aspects of our business (in the office as well as in the field), and to be able to look retrospectively and proactively on the decisions we make as a business today and in the years ahead. We strive to be a sustainable company, with a planting program in place to ensure that we are contributing to making things better and minimize our impact. Our passengers are also welcome to plant 1 or 2 plants after their flight in their own garden or local environment to help offset their carbon footprint and leave a lasting legacy of their ballooning experience.

Floating Images Hot Air Balloon Flights operates our ballooning experience within the Greater Brisbane region, with our launch & landing sites situated within the Ipswich, Scenic Rim and Somerset countryside.

As a result we acknowledge the traditional owners of all three regions:

The Traditional Owners of the Ipswich region are the Jagera, Yuggera and Ugarapul People, Somerset is home to the Aboriginal tribes of Dungibara, Jagera, Jinibara, Kabi Kabi and Yuggera Ugarapul people, Scenic Rim is the traditional country of the Mununjali, Wangerriburra and Ugarapul People.

We recognize the connections to cultural, spiritual, environmental, and economic importance and respect connection to their Country. Their songs and stories live on in the flora, fauna and natural beauty of our region. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, acknowledging the important role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples play in shaping the future of our Region.

Care for the Community

As small business owners, Graeme & Ruth Day who each have over 30+ years background, professional experience and community involvement in the profit and not for profit, non-government and community organisations; Floating Images continues to support our community by maintaining strong relationships and participating in the community in range of ways quietly and behind the scenes. As a responsible and proactive tourism operator, Floating Images is happy to share our knowledge, continues to buy and support local businesses whilst creating job opportunities and employing locally. We strive to conduct our business sustainably.

Care for Humanity, Diversity & Inclusion

As small business owners, whom as first generation Australians have both come from diverse multicultural backgrounds with migrant parents from Anglo, European and South East Asian origins, and having previously worked in the not for profit arena assisting people with various abilities & disabilities; we believe that promoting and embracing diversity and inclusion throughout our business will help us reach our customers, meet and improve the guest experience, promote a positive culture, and to ultimately reach our commercial objectives and promote Floating Images standing in the community.

Floating Images acknowledges the First Nations – Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as the Traditional Owners of the lands throughout Australia, and their connection to country and community. We pay our respect to all Traditional Owners, and to their Elders past, present and emerging. We pay our respects to the First Nations’ ancestors of this land, their spirits and their legacy. The foundations by these ancestors — our First Nations people — gives strength, inspiration and courage to current and future generations, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous