Bill Swonger and I are flying the Cessna Riley P337 to ICELAND! Yesterday was spent flying the Maine coast at 1500' from Rhode Island to BaaHaabor. Nice Labsta dinner and then "Contra Dancing" at the local Grange within walking distance of the KBHB airport. Today we are heading to Goose Bay. Monday should be Narsarsuaq (sp) Greenland to explore glacers and Viking ruins then onto Iceland for the Summer Solstice parties!!!As we travel further north our Internet access may become less frequent but when its available I'll post our progress along with photos.Our N number is N52DG.
Here's our trans-Atlantic Cessna SkyMaster 337 with its entourage of support vehicles in Bar Harbor, Maine, after the first leg of our journey.
Tonight we are in Goose Bay. It's and old WWII base that is still used as a Shuttle abort site and also by several European air-forces for training in the wide open spaces. Lot's of Belgian, German, Dutch air force planes about.Dinner was Caribou steak, Artic Char and Bacappleberry (?) covered cheescake.The flight from Bar Harbor was great. Flew up the Bay Fundy at 500 agl looking for whales. Didn't see any but had spectacular views of the coast of Maine and Nova Scotia.Bob - we see why it's called the Blue Spruce route - hardly any deciduous trees left!Many lakes and rivers and no roads for 100's of miles.Monday we have the long over water flight to Greenland - the approach plates have warnings about icebergs on the approach to a few alternate airports.I'll try to post a few pics - not sure how they will turn out!
Gaspe Peninsula near St. Lawrence
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