On approach to one of our sites... doing the prudent fly-around to check for any bears in the area before landing.
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On approach to one of our sites... doing the prudent fly-around to check for any bears in the area before landing.
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And then we had a small airplane meet us for the rest of the trip - those helos are expensive!
A pretty cool outcropping of eroded stone standing up there.
On final to the runway. Yeah, it's the one running 90 degrees to where we're heading - that can be a nasty one in bad weather. The pilot laid the plane over on it's side at the last minute and greased it in like a pro. Love watching those bush pilots do their thing, as long as I'm not tangled up in the wreckage from a screwup!
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Welcome to Nanwalek International Airport. No loitering.
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Our Limo - a Cessna 207.
Taking off from Nanwalek. They've got a cool little protected harbor here for their boats that you can only get in and out of during high tide. That's where I'd be keeping the boat, for sure.
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One last shot of Nanwalek from the air. The tower there is how everyone gets internet and telephone.
We had a couple of people hopefully ask if we were there to finally install cell service for them... unfortunately, no, we weren't. I don't see them getting service anytime soon, because there just isn't enough people there to justify the huge expense of setting up the tower & equipment to provide it. Cell companies have to make money or it won't happen, ya know!
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And a few more shots of scenery on the way back to Homer.
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There's a bear down there in the valley... I can't find it in the pic, though.
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Sweet copter!! Love to fly in one of them, never been on one before.
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