Day 7. Barrow to Kotzebue.
Off Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial and I am a bit geographically confused. Is it pure Arctic Ocean coastline or it's Chukchi Sea? Surely not Beaufort.
A dead whale and no polar bears. Not Beaufort Sea definitely.
Unintentionally I flushed the whole haulout of walruses off their beach. The cloud layer was kind of low and it was too late to divert. The ocean looked boiling I reduced the power and quietly flew away. Sorry walruses. Wasn't my intent.
Skies finally cleared and temperature raised to mid sixties after I passed Wainwright PAWI.
Time for lunch.
After lunch I picked up 163rd meridian and slid down cutting western corner of treeless Brooks Range.
Red Dog mine.
Noatak River.
A bit short of 3 hours flight time I am in Kotzebue PAOT.
Topped off by Bering Air at $9 per gallon had a little talk with staff and up for the next even more exciting leg...
Off Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial and I am a bit geographically confused. Is it pure Arctic Ocean coastline or it's Chukchi Sea? Surely not Beaufort.
A dead whale and no polar bears. Not Beaufort Sea definitely.
Unintentionally I flushed the whole haulout of walruses off their beach. The cloud layer was kind of low and it was too late to divert. The ocean looked boiling I reduced the power and quietly flew away. Sorry walruses. Wasn't my intent.
Skies finally cleared and temperature raised to mid sixties after I passed Wainwright PAWI.
Time for lunch.
After lunch I picked up 163rd meridian and slid down cutting western corner of treeless Brooks Range.
Red Dog mine.
Noatak River.
A bit short of 3 hours flight time I am in Kotzebue PAOT.
Topped off by Bering Air at $9 per gallon had a little talk with staff and up for the next even more exciting leg...
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