Friday, November 18, 2005

 

Absolute Random "People, Planes, And Places" From My Past!

I was musing this morning about the number of people I have flown into the bush, how many faces I have seen, the number of places I have been, and there have been a number. I pulled out some old photos, and the memories came flooding back (along with some stories that are better left in the "mired recesses" of my cranium!). So, here are some "fleeting images" I captured from the past.
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Training for a float-rating at Pat Bay, Victoria, 1984............
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My brother Corey, before his "hair loss" and "girth increase", during open water season, Little Grand Rapids, 1987......
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When traveling by boat, one must always "clutch" a "wobbly-pop" for balance..........
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My old buddy and stalwart Cessna 180 pilot Gerry Zylich, wearing his best "Red Fisher" grin, as he heads for "Scuttlebutt Lodge"...........
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"Red", showing off a "hammer handle" he has hooked..........
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Gerry would later experience blown "rocker box ears" on C-180 CF-LDW.........
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Bottom set of rapids at "Little Grand"........
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Fresh walleye was consumed just about daily............
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Here I am, holding fresh walleye, looking remarkably similar to one of the mountain-men from the movie "Deliverance"..........."Squeal like a pig".............!
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One of the Turbo Beavers Manitoba Government Air Division used to operate.
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My wife Lucille, first-born kid Kelly, and Beaver C-GJJG. Time flies, as Kelly is now a 3rd year University student!
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Me, Kelly, and JJG...........
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3 Beavers and a boy, Pauingassi, Fall, 1986.
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JJG at Rudy Eastman's Maintenance Shop on the Icelandic River...........
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Me, astride JJG, trying to look "cool", but in actual fact coming across as a "complete knob"............
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Good old JJG on wheels. A de Havilland Beaver is a tremendous aircraft to fly on wheels.
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A Cessna 180 would be a very sleek-looking airplane with retractable-gear.........
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.....but LDW wanted to go on floats, so Rudy, with the help of his son, Michael "Crowbait" Eastman, obliged her!
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At the end of it all, the "trail dust" was thick in my throat. Therefore, a good "throat-washin'" was in order.
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Yup, lots of memories from the past, just like they were yesterday. Ain't it funny, how "time slips away".................

# posted by Steve @ 12:55 PM
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