FlightSeeing.US Logo
 


Choose from our bundled Airport Briefing packages!
Information Packages and Airstrip Videos

See Florida from a bird's eye view!
  Florida Flying Videos

Choose from our pre-planned packages!
 Flight Planning Assistance



Try out our Virtual FBO!



Royalty-Free Stock Video at Pond5


 

Welcome to Wingnut's Wild Blue Yonder!

Flying

FlightSeeing.us Homepage

 

Flying

Short Trips: Cedar Key, FL

Cedar Key has a lot of history behind it. The Indians lived there hundreds and hundreds of years ago, and actually farmed oysters in some of the earliest known aquaculture. Somehwere around the end of the 1800's it was a huge point of departure for Russion freighters hauling cedar wood back to Russia, thus the name Cedar Key. They actually had a huge pier built out of Cedar that first wagons and later trucks trundled around in a continuous loop loading the ships.

After a huge hurricane came through around 1900 and destroyed the peir, it was never rebuilt, but the town is still there, and the view from above is stunning. Ironically, from the ground it's not that impressive. It's just kind of flat with some grass and a few trees.

But from above, you can see a hundred different shades of water, and wild shapes carved into the flats by the tides rising and falling for eons.

Smaller islands number in the hundreds, and some are heavily wooded while others are barely more than a sand bar with a couple tufts of grass on them. These were shot from about 2,000 feet up.

There were some million dollar mansions perched right out on the ends of some of these points. I couldn't believe how posh these luxury getaways were.

This place cries out for a sea plane! Look at all those little beaches down there. If I ever get to build my kit plane, I'm gonna be sure to make it have amphib floats.

We circled in from about 2,000 feet, crossed over the end of the field and entered the downwind at the corner at 1,000 feet. I came around on base and the local taxi called me on the comm and asked if we'd need a ride into town. We couldn't stay that long this time, but it's pretty neat that they monitor the frequency and ask like that!

If you are planning on eating, pooping, or anything else, plan on going into town. There is no FBO, no rest rooms, and no water spigot, etc. There is NOTHING but the runway and a small tie-down area.

Check out the next page...

 

 

Home | Info Packages | Flying Videos | Virtual FBO | Flying | About Us | Contact Us


 

AHMTF
A Hard Man To Find
Serving the Entire Planet

http://www.ahardmantofind.com

  

All content, logos, pictures, and videos are the property of AHMTF
Copyright ©  2009 - www.ahardmantofind.com
If you have any comments or questions contact webmaster