The River from The Air

My cousin Tom and his wife Jennifer flew their 4-seater plane from Moncton to Charlottetown, picked us up, and we buzzed the house! I called Mom and Dad just before we took off, and they were out in the yard watching us fly around. its a 40 plus minute drive from Charlottetown to The River, but it took all of 10 minutes to fly there! It was a perfect evening for the flight and a real treat. Thanks so much Tom and Jennifer, what a great adventure!

 I took this just as they touched down

Tom's is a 737 WestJet Captain, and thought this was a cool view. As Tom and Jennifer were taxiing toward us, it so happened that a WestJet 737 was taking off in the background!

 Lets go!

 We're off!

David sat in front with Tom, and Jennifer and I were in back (Davey was worried about a woozy tummy, poor thing).

 View of Cavendish Beach as we took off

 Orwell Bay

 St. Joachim's Church in Vernon River

 Kinross through The Hills

 Caledonia

Murray Harbour in the distance

 The River

 the golf course and walking bridge are the first recognizable features

 there's the dam

First glimpse of the house. That's Annie's place in the center so the house is hiding behind the red pine to the right.

 we looped around Murray River to take another pass

 the village

 

 There's the house again!

  

 I think the long shadow to the left of the driveway is Dad

 

 

Its a little grainy. its hard to look, zoom, focus and shoot when your flying by at several hundred miles an hour at 1,500 feet. But I zoomed and cropped the photo from above and you can make out Mom and Dad in the yard.

 

On the way back to town we could see Hopefield. the fields in the foreground is Don Livingstone's place.

The stand of tall trees just above the center of the photo is Grammy and Grampy's place in Hopefield .

The green fields to the right of the wing is Jimmy Smith's place

 Hopefield

 Wood Islands

 

 

 Point Prim

We saw this, what we called a "Crop Circle" near Belfast. Its a message celebrating 150 years since the Confederation Conference, in corn!

 

 Point Prim off the tip of the wing

 sailing boats in the harbor

 

 Charlottetown waterfront

 

 the Basilica and downtown

 Hillsborough bridge

 

landing back in Charlottetown

This is our flight path. You can see all the loops we made over Murray River, and then the loop at the cornfield on the way back to Charlottetown. The whole trip took less than an hour. It was awesome!!

 

Jennifer and Tom, I can't tell you how much this meant to me. Thank you