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Posted By:
Mark MacKinnon
Date Posted:
Nov 3, 2015
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Colors are just about peak here in Maine. Had to get in a flight this morning before more rain moves in.
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15 Oct 2015
Place Taken:
Near Old Town, ME
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Mark MacKinnon
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Mark MacKinnon - Oct 15,2015
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Randy Flood - Oct 15,2015
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Wish I had known you were up.....I departed KBST and was playing Downeast along the coast. BEAUTIFUL colors out
there this time of year!!!!
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Mark MacKinnon - Oct 16,2015
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Randy - I couldn't stay up for very long as I had to hit the road and head down to Gray to help my brother pack and move. I should have hollered on 123.375 but I assumed no one else would have been up on a Thursday morning. And I stayed close to Old Town, and stayed on 122.8. Next time I will.
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Don Maxwell - Oct 15,2015
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Do you guys have a Searey frequency up there? When flying in Florida, I've found that making a blind call on the ""gator"" frequency (123.375) often gets a response from some other Searey pilot. (Or used to; I haven't flown there in 4 or 5 years.)
I used to use 123.375 here in the Mid-Atlantic until one day I heard two airplanes and someoneon the ground at Langley working some kind of flight test on that frequency. For several years most seaplane people here have been using 123.45. It's hijacking the frequency, of course, but I don't think anyone has complained about it.
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Randy Flood - Oct 16,2015
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Don: Informally we have adopted 123.375 as the ""Lobster Freq"" until we hear someone else using it.
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Mark MacKinnon - Oct 16,2015
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Btw that's I-95 you see in the first pic.
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Randy Flood - Oct 16,2015
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Mark:
No big deal. When up I always monitor Lobster Freq. I head back to work Sunday so I will not be up again until Mid Nov.
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Steve Kessinger - Oct 16,2015
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Two things I miss about the east coast: thunderstorms, and the fall colors. I'm jealous.
And lightning bugs. Make it three.
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Carr, Frank - Oct 17,2015
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If you miss thunderstorms Steve, it's because you view them from above--or the ground. Without those big jet engines, we hate
them.
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Steve Kessinger - Oct 17,2015
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I hate them in GA flying too, Frank, but if I'm not flying because of thunderboomies they're great to sit on the porch and watch, especially at night. Northwest WA just ain't conducive to that kind of weather like you get on the east coast.
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Mark MacKinnon - Oct 22,2015
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It's amazing what you miss, when you move away from where you grew up, to somewhere quite different.
I grew up in Maine, as did most of my family. I recently spent over 3 years in southeastern S. Carolina (the ""Lowcountry""), and as time passed by, I noticed something missing that I was very used to. Rocks. It occurred to me that the Lowcountry has no rocks. Just very sandy soil. The only rocks you see are trucked in gravel for railroad beds and so forth. I never thought I'd miss rocks.
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Carr, Frank - Oct 23,2015
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Mark, just try digging a hole to plant a tree or bush and you'll find a rock.
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Mark MacKinnon - Oct 23,2015
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In the northeasts, yes! Very maddening to try to drive a ground rod into the ground around here. But down there, no problem. Just sandy soil.
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Carr, Frank - Oct 17,2015
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Steve, Here in SWFL we have a boomer or two almost every day in the summer. We get 90% of our rain from them. On the rare
summer day when we don't have one, I feel cheated by the loss of entertainment. One of my favorite pastimes as you say, is sitting
in a covered area out by the pool at night watching them perform. I know how you feel.
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Nickens, Dan - Oct 31,2015
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We have fall foliage colors in Florida too.....you just have to fly over the swamps find them.
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Mark MacKinnon - Nov 02,2015
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Aww come on Dan, your colors just don't compare.
The leaves are well past up here now, but no snow yet. Won't be long now.
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Nickens, Dan - Nov 02,2015
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What?!?! The leaves are just spectacular, Mark, when you can see them through an open canopy in the shimmering heat haze.
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