So, if you lost your bearings - use this pole, track yourself down on the map. You may find it would also be a good spot for various kinds of ‘fresh starts’ 
I tell you, come to Newfoundland, regain your connections with the world, and start over again!
Them guys in Newfoundland seem to know how to found and settle life on the solid rock.
Oshkosh is a great place to watch the different kind of flight performances - it is actually a ’show of shows’ where you can see a variety of ‘excerpts’ from many theme-specialized events (like this one: ‘Dave Dacy Airshows’). Of course, there’s been a lot of aerobatic flying performed there, by an array of teams and individual sporty’s pilots.
And it was a sort of natural thing that our attention was attracted to Sergei Boriak, a world-class aerobatic pilot, - ‘born in the USSR’, as myself (he lived in my native Kazakhstan too!), - and my name-sake, to all this
‘Hey! Look at that!’, I exclaimed in a surprise when we noticed this aircraft at Oshkosh Seaplane Base. A few days ago we saw it having just come from Yellowknife, NWT, to Red Lake, Ontario.
We saw Beech-18 on floats in four places during our trip to Red Lake-Oshkosh.
Of course, an encounter with the first one was very exciting. We met it in Red Lake, and it belonged to Chimo Air, a local charter company. I took a nice opportunity to walk ‘half-around’ this antique bird, C-FHZA, - sure, that’s the way - you can only do half around it, - unless you have a boat, or just jump into the water to finish full ‘half-walk-half-swim around’ the docked floatplane
This trip across two countries was also a revelation of how many ‘antique planes on floats’ are still in commercial service doing charters across Ontario and Minnesota hauling loads of fishermen and their gear to the remote lodges across the vast ‘Water World’ in the Lake of the Woods area. Read the rest of this entry »
Vacation is over. Back to work.
Back into the sky. Didn’t notice much change here. All the same, exciting and boring, spectacular and dull, friendly and dangerous, bright and dark, - it is still all the same. And hopefully, will be.. For the next eh, … 100000…. years
Yeah, it’s fair enough to ask - why?
Because we live in Canada.
Look at that. This is a typical landscape all across the Canadian Shield area - it is just one incredible compound of rock, water, and wood.
I should tell you, we were still under influence of the Norseman Festival in Red Lake - this probably explains a great deal of ’sensitivity’ that would inevitably
make us deviate from the route we were going to whatever spot any airplane looking capable to take off from the water was parked at.
So, the seaplanes were in another area of particular interest to explore, moreover, - all of a sudden, one specific reason for this popped up at some moment.
Just one picture from my ‘trophy’ storage of imagery worth ca. 10 Gig accumulated on the Mac’s disc in two says in Oshkosh.
Mind-bugling place.
I’ll start posting on Oshkosh once we get back home.
Cheers,
Clash
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