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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Jul 20, 2014
Description:
When your wheels are stuck down, water, no matter how beautiful, is out of bounds. And when you’ve left two credit cards behind at various Mexican restaurants, the options for paying for fuel get to be a concern. The only cards left were the bank’s and SuRi’s. And cash. That should be sufficient for the larger airports. Big airports weren’t in my flight plans.
Date Taken:
Jul 20, 2014
Place Taken:
Shasta Lake and Dam, CA
Owner:
Dan Nickens
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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Can you imagine scooting across that beautifully curvaceous glassy water! It was almost enough to make me raise the gear and go for it. Then I considered how I’d have to reposition all the spare parts in the baggage compartment to get to the auxiliary gear switch if I wanted to land on land later. Suddenly the mountain water lost a lot of its appeal.
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Sharp Turns
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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Just when I thought I was out of the rocks, some extra sharp ones showed up. It wasn’t too scary though because I was flying around them, not over them.
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Sharp Rocks
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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Climbing up and crossing the last hills, but I won’t be flying over the big one. That’s a go around.
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Approaching Shasta
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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What goes on backstage at an open air theater is out there for any SeaReyer to see!
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Backstage at Shasta
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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As majestic as the big mountain is, it is easiest to bypass the highest spots.
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Around Shasta
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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Right next to Shasta is its little sister. Who knows how big she’ll grow up to be! I don’t want to be too close when she gets her next growing spurt.
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Angle of Repose
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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The farmers in Shasta’s shadow have figured out how to work around the lava flows. They just go with the flow.
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Workaround
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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No need to back up when you can go around in circles. Going around in circles all the time might get to be confusing, however. In olden days such dead ends were used to confound unfamiliar invaders, leaving them trapped with no easy exit. Probably works for neighborhood tourists too.
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Cul de sac City
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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What happened to the lake I once splashed? It’s all gone to the drought. Just as well, because there will be no splashing this time.<br /><br />“Stale Water!” I say.<br /><br />'The fox who longed for grapes, beholds with pain<br />The tempting clusters were too high to gain;<br />Grieved in his heart he forced a careless smile,<br />And cried ,‘They’re sharp and hardly worth my while.'<br /><br />(Rendition of the ancient fable by Aphra Behn in Francis Barlow’s Illustrated volume, 1687.)<br />
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Dry Times
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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Such smooth and subtle curves the fields here have as they flow around an old volcanic cone.
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Flowing Fields
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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Lines in the landscape and mottling in the meadows are there if you look for them.
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Subtle Patterns
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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At first glance it seemed this tree had some spectacularly long roots. Just paths around it, though.
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Tree Routes
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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The low way across the ridge was taken by the highway. I turned to follow it when I saw a car racing me to the summit. It looked to be a tight race, until the hill got too steep and I had to break off to climb.<br /><br />Yelling out the window, I told the victorious competitor, “I prefer the higher way anyway!”<br />
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Racers
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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Finally a river suitable for flying over with the gear fixed down!<br /><br />The nagging in my head had nothing to do with running out of fuel. It all had to do with paying for fuel at any one of the easily accessible airports. (Easily accessible as in they fit my criteria of small, out-of-the-way places with no airline business or controllers to talk to. True, I’d already messed up that story by talking with the tower at Redding, but in the absence of further emergencies, I was still intent on sneaking across the country.) All I had left after losing two credit cards was my debit card.<br /><br />Stopping at the Cottage Grove State (77S) airport in Oregon it didn’t take long to figure out that the little self service fueling pump wasn’t going to debit my account. There was no one around to give cash to.<br /><br />That left two choices: fly to another airport or use the SuRi card. It was a close thing. The time and inconvenience of finding a cash accepting airport fueler or doing the paperwork. I hate doing the paperwork, but the forecast for the next day was full of rain in the northwest. The day to get Puff home was this one. I gritted my teeth and resolved myself to the accounting.<br />
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Rough River
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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Gorse gone wild! It may make the farmers and firefighters unhappy, but it is a visual delight to flyers.
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Golden Meadows
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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When there are trees lying crosswise in the stream, it is an easy place for a gear conflicted SeaRey to bypass.
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Wash Down
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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What a great airport! No worries about crosswind landings when there is good green grass growing in every which direction.
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Green Spokes
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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While reaching for some honey Winnie-the-Pooh fell into a gorse bush. It was a bit of thorny situation for a teddy bear. Probably would be a bit of the same for a fabric covered SeaRey.
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Pretty but Prickly
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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High fields on top of the hills have a slightly psychedelic look.
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Top Crops
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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It’s a great museum. Too bad it’s having difficult days. I’d hate to see it permanently grounded.
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Flying Low
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Bruce McGregor - Jul 20,2014
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Suzanne and I visited the Evergreen Museum last month. I had not seen the Hughes H-4 (Spruce Goose) for thirty years while she had never seen it. Only in person can one appreciate the immense size of this airplane.<P>The Museum's buildings are architectural gems. The airplanes and displays are immaculate, the best overall condition I have seen among many aviation museums. The many volunteers present account for this.<P>The Museum's main sponsor,Evergreen International, a charter airline, went bankrupt recently amid accusations of financial shenanigans with Museum funds. To keep the doors open, the Museum is selling some of its collection, such as a Ford Trimotor and a rare flyable P-38.<P>We went now as the Museum could be shuttered during protracted court proceedings or even be dissolved.<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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You got to admire a man who loves his work so much he surrounds himself with it.
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Field House
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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A tightly bound stream keeps the fields and water separated.
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Stream Lining
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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Making a colorful tree line requires waiting for fall. Or, planting a little bit of every kind of tree.
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Mixed Grove
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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Adding some color to green bumps? Try gorse. Until it grows up and covers the bumps completely.<br /><br />It was time for one last fuel stop. I could make it, but only just. Having the gear down crossing Puget Sound was stress enough. Having to think about fuel too was too much to contemplate.<br /><br />I stopped at the Steve Whitman terminal. There was self service fuel. It wouldn’t take my debit card. There was no one around for cash. Sigh. After already committing myself to future accounting, one more reporting point seemed little additional burden. I pushed in the SuRi card.<br />
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Coloring the Bumps
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Don Maxwell - Jul 20,2014
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The accountants will be wondering how that boat got way up there on dry land.
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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She will find out. She's the Captain's 'partner' and knows more about what goes on in SuRi's world than any of the rest of us.
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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Snow covered signs that Puff is almost home.
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Olympians
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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An outpouring of goodwill at Puff’s return, or just an outflow of algae?
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Outpouring
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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The last bit of shallow water before crossing the deep strait….gear down.
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Last Outflow
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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Hand on gear selector switch in the event of an unplanned water approach.
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Over Big Water
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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Racing with the rain, but next island is home to Puff.<br /><br />Despite substantially undershooting the projected mission schedule, a welcoming committee was waiting for Puff at Orcas Island. Richard had been watching the Spot’s progress, and knew to the minute our arrival time (well, approximate arrival time because there is always the SeaRey wiggle factor, of which there is a lot less when the gear is down and locked).<br /><br />It was a quick day with only 8.0 flight hours on the meter (not much ground time, and no water time). That added up to a total of 51.3 hours over seven days in the air, with one day off for balky gear behavior.<br /><br />Last time Puff crossed the continent with Richard she logged 69 hours in the air over six weeks. Any sane person would agree that is a much more pleasant schedule. But, if you’re flight crazy, compressing six weeks into one is a fine way to fly!<br />
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One Ferry Away
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Philip Mendelson - Jul 22,2014
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As always NICE job!!
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Dan Nickens - Jul 20,2014
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Now Richard and Puff are happy together again.<br /><br />Meanwhile, back at some obscure Homeland inSecurity office, guys in black suits are pouring over Puff’s flight particulars. The flight profile is suspicious by design. Low and slow across the continent. Stopping at unsecured little town airports. Only one known, mysterious contact with a FAA controller asking to splash in a river. What’s a desk bound security agent to make of it all?<br /><br />Make of it what they will, it’s over and done. An uncontrolled event has happened right under their noses. Anarchy creeps ever closer……<br />
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Splashing and Dashing
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Dennis Scearce - Jul 20,2014
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Thank you for another adventure, Dan. Richard lives in a beautiful place. I hope you see your credit cards again someday and aren't in too much trouble with the CFO of SuRi.
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