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Posted By:
Nickens, Dan
Date Posted:
Apr 18, 2016
Description:
More than a year earlier a broke down airplane was removed from SuRi's service. It was taken apart and rebuilt at unreasonable costs to be better than new. Maybe. It was now one day from being delivered to its new home and a new corporate SeaRey/jet pilot in California. All I had to do was finish the last leg of fast trip across the American southwestern desert back to the Pacific Ocean and then done?
Date Taken:
July 25, 2014
Place Taken:
Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
Owner:
Nickens, Dan
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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The shortest distance across the desert is a flat line. Apparently water doesn't subscribe to this man-made theory.
(West of Needles, CA)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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Heat dancing on desert dunes on the shore of a dry lake is the last remaining visage from water that once splashed the beach.
(South of Cadiz, CA)
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Carr, Frank - Apr 18,2016
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Images from the Descent Camera on the Curiosity Lander just returned to Mission Control show an
inhospitable and uninhabitable
topography. The EDL team quickly determined that there was no place to land safely and aborted
the mission. The agency has
decided that there will be no further exploratory missions to the spot dubbed ""California"".
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BAD LANDING SIGHT
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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An invasion of greenery is hard to resist for even the stubbornest of old dunes. Or do they welcome the taste of water sustaining the invaders?
(South of Cadiz, CA)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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More water is needed for aquatic SeaRey operations. Just as well. The job was to get over it, not play along the way.
(South of 29 Palms, CA)
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Buck Bray - Apr 18,2016
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Potts Dry Lake is billiard table smooth and may have been used/named after Melvin Potts, one of the Road Runners Hot Rodding film
stars in 1952. Our glider club would hold several auto tow campout weekends each year on Potts Dry Lake. Other naming stories
include Pot drops. An undercover DEA agent joined our club to check out one of our auto tow weekends. After realizing we were just
fun pilot fanatics he broke out his guns for a blam fest and came to the next event in his helicopter and gave rides to those with gov
ids.
Ray Stits who some of you may remember for his Stits Playboy (genesis of the RV1) and his Poly-Fiber aircraft covering joined us in
his Recreational Vehicle (different type of RV) with his wife to add an auto tow rating to his pilot ratings. That was a gourmet
weekend with his wife making sandwiches and providing cold drinks for all the rustic campers in tents.
One of our upcoming members got to fly one of the gliders over on tow and then soloed when I parachuted out over Potts.
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Don Maxwell - Apr 18,2016
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!!! (There's more to Buck than meets the eye.)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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How many shades of brown? Brown out, up and down, all around.
(South of 29 Palms, CA)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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It could be an interesting place for SeaReying, but getting stuck in soft dry sand could make for a major schedule delay waiting for a flash flood to simply raise gear and fly away.
(South of 29 Palms, CA)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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Some big California faults originate in the south. It's easy to see where they start out from overhead.
(Near Cactus City, CA)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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That's a lot of regular palms...
(South of Mecca, CA)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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With the receding of the sea shore (sea level subsidence?) there is plenty of salty beachfront available. It would be great except for the stench and nasty water.
(Northern Salton Sea, CA)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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What little water that falls in the valley meanders into the salty Salton sea in such small quantities as to make no dent in its increasing salinity.
(Northern Salton Sea, CA)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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It's all black and white on this salt beach.
(Northern Salton Sea, CA)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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It might be too salty and stinky for folks, but the birds don't seem to mind......Until they die from the agricultural and biological poisons lurking in the septic lake.
(Northern Salton Sea, CA)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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On the flat water you can see both sides of the mountain.
(Oasis, CA)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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An outlet for both water and four wheelers?
(Near Desert Shores, CA)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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The western banks of the fowl Salton Sea are badlands....for alighting planes.
(East of Borrego Springs, CA)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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Bad2Bad. Just when you think the badlands can't get any badder, they do.
(East of Borrego Springs, CA)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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The only way it could be a badder land for landing is if there was lava rolling down the gullies.
(Near Borrego Springs, CA)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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Is it hot enough to boil rocks in July?
(Near Borrego Springs, CA)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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Faint pastels soften the scenery and make the land look less bad.
(Near Borrego Springs, CA)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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In an abruptly rounded land there were some stark dividing lines.
(Near Borrego Springs, CA)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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Mostly rumpled with one slightly winding streambed to smooth the sides.
(Near Borrego Springs, CA)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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Ridges lining up or piling up?
(Near Borrego Springs, CA)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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The sheer edge of a rock falls must be terrifying to the gecko that trips over a pebble hanging on the edge.
(Near Borrego Springs, CA)
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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Dry lake bottom was clear evidence of the dry season in California. Not enough water for an anonymous, inconspicuous SeaRey splash. Just as well. Close to my destination I didn't need any more distractions. The airplane was finally delivered to its new home and my work with SuRi's old SeaRey done and over. (Future Posting Spoiler alert: Wrong!)
(Lake Henshaw, CA)
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Dennis Scearce - Apr 17,2016
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Thanks, Dan. It's amazing the beauty in such starkness.
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Dave Edward - Apr 17,2016
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Beautiful Dan !! Another epic voyage with you comes to an end. Thanks for sharing.
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 17,2016
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One might understandably think this chapter closed the book on N415SR, Dave, but standby. This saga continued. (Don't worry, though. It ultimately has a happy ending.)
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Dave Edward - Apr 18,2016
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I love happy endings ! can't handle suspense.....so start posting.
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Nickens, Dan - Apr 18,2016
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Now, Dave, there has to be time for flying too. I realize there may be an outbreak of cabin fever up north, but we're deep into the best flying weather down here.
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Carr, Frank - Apr 18,2016
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Thanks Dan for another awesome trip. I particularly enjoyed your one word to describe the Salton Sea: ""stench"" . Having
visited there briefly en-route to Borrego Springs, I could find no word that quite captured the place. Stench does it. Great
photos however, especially of the almost non-earthlike badlands.
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