Kaleberg Archive for Keyword: flying

05/08/25 - Seattle and the Flight Home Our appointment in Seattle went well. Then, we flew home. It was a much cloudier day, but there's always something to see out of an airplane window.	View from our hotel window
View from an office	Closer view
The port without cargo traffic	Seattle
West Seattle	The Hood Canal Bridge
That darn bridge again	Discovery Bay
Sequim Bay	The Rayonier cleanup site

Keywords: flying, seattle

05/06/25 - Flight to Seattle We recently flew to Seattle via Rite Brothers out of Fairchild, our local airport. The Hood Canal Bridge had gotten stuck open, and we had an important appointment in town. As it turned out, the bridge was repaired in time, but we really had to be there on time, so we flew. As a reward, we got some beautiful views of the Olympic Mountains, Port Angeles, the countryside and even Mount Rainier.	Port Angeles from the air
Olympic Mountains and countryside

	The Hood Canal and distant Cascades
Mount Rainier	There's all sorts of interesting stuff visible from the air. Is this an oyster facility?

Keywords: flying, mount rainier, port angeles, seattle

07/29/22 - Hazy Day Flight From Seattle It was a hot hazy day. It seems like it is a hot hazy day every time we head into Seattle. This time we flew, and we took some pictures of the Olympic Mountains on our way back. Yes, they are hazy.

Keywords: flying, seattle

02/16/22 - Flight to Seattle We had to take a quick flight into Seattle, so we took some pictures of our flight. We flew with Rite Brothers. They offer scenic flights with great views of the Puget Sound, the Olympic Mountains and distant volcanoes. We just flew a charter into Boeing Field, but we got the scenery anyway.	Mountains and clouds
Mount Baker	The Olympic Mountains
Mount Rainier	One of the great mountains
More mountains and clouds	Our local mountains again
Hood Canal	Seattle
Flowers in bloom in Seattle	Seattle again

Keywords: flying, seattle, mount rainier

11/22/21 - The Flight to Charleston There was some pretty impressive scenery on our flight from Seattle to Charleston. We flew other snow covered mountains, broad plains cut by river channels and then the flat lands. Most of the time the skies were clear, but as we neared the Atlantic coast, there were clouds below and perfect conditions for a glory. That's an anti-solar halo around one's plane's shadow. It was visible for much of our flight as we approached Charleston, but then, as the sun started to set and we had a beautiful sunset to watch. As with so many west to east flights, we started early in the day and arrived late in the day, but we had some great views en route.

Keywords: flying, georgia

05/11/21 - Yachats and the Road to Orick We spent the morning exploring the coastal trail, part of the 804 Trail, that ran outside our hotel. There were sea birds and tide pools, wind blown trees and coastal forest. We had a long drive ahead of us. We had learned that Google Maps and the other mapping programs seriously underestimate the driving times along the coast, generally by 15%-25%. Of course, there was no way that the mapping programs could have predicted the hour and a half road closure south of Crescent City. What could we do? This kind of delay is common when flying, and our car was at least as comfy as any airport lounge. When the road reopened, we headed down to Orick and checked into our Elk Meadow Cabin. We were really glad we had lots of left overs for dinner in our cooler. We just weren't up to another round of driving to the nearest restaurant.	The waterfront at the Overleaf Lodge
A tidepool	Tidepools and inlets
More dark rock	One of the plovers
Another plover	Inland tunnel
A view of our hotel	Another local bird
More to explore	Wind blown trees - krumholz
On the drive south	A brief stop
Seastacks	Stuff to worry about besides COVID

Keywords: birds, flying, oregon

11/04/19 - Why are we in Vancouver? We are in Vancouver, BC, because it is our first stop on our way to Ethiopia. We arrived a day early so we don't have to worry about missing our flight. There aren't a lot of flights to Addis Ababa from this hemisphere, and some of them only run every other day. We wanted a minimal number of stops and to avoid flying out of our way, for example, via Dubai. We chose Lufthansa which code shares its Ethiopian flights with Air Canada, United Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines and several others. It's ten plus hours to Frankfort via the polar route, then another seven hours or so to Addis Ababa, so stay tuned.	The view en route to Vancouver
Vancouver, BC	Some kind of steampunk festival? Eh?
Hotel window view	From Stanley Park, past the Lion's Gate Bridge
Another Stanley Park view	A cormorant
A wood duck	Great blue heron

Keywords: ethiopia, flying, vancouver

08/29/17 - Seattle by Air We haven't flown into Seattle for a while, but we had to make a quick trip. We booked a Rite Brothers charter flight and combined logistical necessity with a scenic flight.	Some of our local mountains
Mount Baker in the distance	Mount Rainier, also far away

Seattle	The grain elevator
Discovery Park and the view north	The Agate Passage

Keywords: flying, seattle, mount rainier

09/19/14 - Where Are We? We're being deliberately mysterious here. These photos are from one of our waypoints en route to our big destination. Luckily, we're taking an interesting route.	The seal of this mysterious city
Sulfur, it's iconic!	It's not Copenhagen. This little mermaid is wearing a wet suit.
They have 9/11 truthers here.	Flying in to town

Keywords: flying

02/11/11 - Some Views of the Olympic Mountains We got a great view of the Olympic Mountains on our last flight into Seattle. We got another view from near Pike's Place Market. Enjoy the pretty pictures.	Valley haze in the Olympic Mountains
Some snow covered peaks	Another view, from in town - No, they aren't made of Beecher's Cheese.

Keywords: seattle, flying

12/10/10 - Our Flight Home We flew home around dusk. Here are some pictures of Seattle at night, suitably blurred by the planes vibration. That last photo is one of our plane's lights.	That's Seattle.
More Seattle lights	The lights on our plane's wing

Keywords: seattle, flying

10/02/10 - Sightings

Hurricane Hill is chock full of marmots lately. They seem to be all over the place. Could it be that the park service has removed those coyotes, or is it just the year of the marmot? (They aren't all golden anymore either, possibly due to the high price of gold.)

We also saw a helicopter by the road side. They've been moving some old logs up from near Lake Dawn to Lake Angeles as part of the restoration effort. There probably wasn't a place to land at the pick up site, and we know there isn't one up at Lake Angeles, so they used one of the overlook pullouts.

Sorry, we have no action shots. The last time we saw one of these working helicopters it almost dumped a ton of gravel on us out towards Cape Alava, so it's probably just as well.

Keywords: hurricane hill, lake angeles, marmots, flying

05/05/10 - From the Air Yes, we post an awful lot of pictures from our Kenmore Air flights to and from Boeing Field, but we can't resist. There is some amazing scenery around here.	Port Angeles, banking after take off
Sequim Bay	Hood Canal
The Hood Canal Bridge - It looks closed.	Our evening return to Port Angeles - sunset

Keywords: kenmore, flying, port angeles

02/03/10 - Flying to Seattle We recently flew to Seattle on Kenmore Air, and the views from the plane were spectacular. It wasn't a clear day. There was plenty of cloud cover, but the mountains and the skies were spectacular.	Fairchild Airport
Mountains	More mountains
The clouds washed up to the mountains like the sea washes up to the shore.	A tantalyzing mountain closeup
Mountains under our wing	Water below
Minas Morgul, aka Mount Rainier	The sound

Keywords: seattle, flying, kenmore, mount rainier

09/01/09 - Front Seat To Seattle One of the nice things about flying in little airplanes is that you don't need a lot of special skills to sit in the front seat. That means even a Kaleberg can get the advantages of a wonderful cockpit view as you can see in a these photos. It was a cloudy day, but that gave everything a quintessential Northwestern look.	Rule One - Mitts off!
Blue tones and mountains	Ediz Spit and lens flare
The propeller is too fast for our camera.	More mountains and cloud

Keywords: seattle, flying, kale

Looking south

04/12/09 - Another Great View From Kenmore Air

We were in Seattle. We flew Kenmore Air. We had a great view of Puget Sound.

Keywords: seattle, flying, kenmore

12/07/08 - Our Flight From Seattle These are some photos taken from a Kenmore Air Cessna Citation en route from Boeing Field in Seattle to Fairchild Airport in Port Angeles. As usual, the light was spectacular, and the mountains were most cooperative.

Keywords: port angeles, seattle, flying, kenmore

10/27/08 - A Quick Trip Into Seattle We made a quick trip into Seattle and flew Kenmore Air. It was a great flying day, and we had window seats, so here a couple of pictures from our flight, and one picture from Seattle proper. It seems that summer is over in the city as well.	Dungeness Spit
The Dungeness River - Can you see Dungeness Valley Creamery down there?	A city scene

Keywords: dungeness, dungeness spit, flying, seattle, autumn, kenmore

09/09/08 - Seattle Flight We often fly into Seattle on the local airline Kenmore Air. They fly little nine seat propeller airplanes from Fairchild Airport (CLM) a bit west of Port Angeles to Boeing Field (BFI) a bit south of Seattle. They are awfully convenient, and we often get spectacular views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains. We took these on a later afternoon flight, heading home.

Keywords: seattle, atmosphere, flying, kenmore

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