| Date | Aircraft | Route of Flight | Time (hrs) | Total (hrs) |
| 02 Jan 2017 | N21481 | SDC (Sodus, NY) - Thousand islands - SDC | 2.0 | 1613.7 |
My flying mostly falls into three categories:
1. Going someplace
2. Practicing airwork or instrument procedures (to safely enable #1)
3. Cruising for the sake of cruising (sort of like #1, but more about the flight than the destination)
Today's flight fell into the latter category.
Since moving to New York, I have been amazed by the natural wonders that this state offers: magnificent waterfalls (more than just Niagara), the Adirondack Mountains, the Finger Lakes, Lake Ontario (even if it's still not as cool as Lake Michigan), and -- my destination for the day -- the Thousand Islands of the Saint Lawrence River.
It was a perfect day for winter sightseeing. The sun was shining over a landscape lightly dusted in snow, the air was clear, and the wind was calm. I love the crisp contrast of deep blue water against a snowy landscape. Though the surface wind was calm, I obviously flew through three different air masses along the way. The boundary of each was announced by a temporary bout of light turbulence followed by a significantly different velocity over the ground.
Beyond that, I'll let the photographs speak for themselves.
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| The east end of Lake Ontario, looking north |
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| Port Ontario |
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| North Sandy Pond |
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| Lakeview Wildlife Management Area |
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| Entrance to Black River Bay |
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| Interchange of I-81 and NY-12 near Alexandria Bay |
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| The St Lawrence River and some of the Thousand Islands |
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| Goose bay |
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| Salmon Run Mall, Watertown, NY |
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| Nine Mile Point Nuclear Plant, the eastern boundary of my "home territory" |
