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This page includes pictures taken from a helicopter on May 3, 2005.
May 3, 2005
The Helicopter Ride
This morning I accompanied two helicopter
pilots on a ride over parts of southern Delaware, on a work-related matter.
Fortunately it was a gorgeous spring day,
and I remembered to have my camera with me.
Bowers Beach, Delaware, looking west from Delaware Bay. |
Oil tankers waiting to be lightered at Big Stone Beach
Anchorage, in the lower portion of Delaware Bay. |
A flock of birds flies below us, hovering just above
Delaware Bay just off Broadkill Beach. |
Marshland in
Prime Hook National
Wildlife Refuge. |
New homes at Broadkill Beach, Delaware |
The University of
Delaware's College of Marine Studies facility at Lewes. One of the
University's research vessels is docked in the front center of the
photo. |
Roosevelt Inlet, connecting the mouth of the Broadkill
River (left) and the Lewes & Rehoboth Canal (right) with the Delaware
Bay (above). |
A Cape
May-Lewes ferry offloads in Lewes. Pilot launches for the maritime
traffic on the Delaware Bay and River are docked in the lower right
portion of the photograph. |
Holland Glade, with Gordons Pond and the Atlantic Ocean
in the background, looking east. |
The Lewes & Rehoboth Canal, looking toward Lewes.
Gordon's Pond is in the center and right of the photo. |
Dewey Beach from the bay side, looking north. |
Quillen's Point, on Indian River Bay, looking west. |
White Oak Creek as it empties into Rehoboth Bay. The
homes along the far shoreline edge are part of Rehoboth Beach Yacht &
Country Club Estates, with a portion of Rehoboth Beach Country Club
behind the homes to the right. The Atlantic Ocean is in the far
background. |
This lagoon empties into Rehoboth Bay, and was the scene
of a large
fish
kill last summer. It's also where we dock our boat. |
A tractor plows under winter cover in preparation for
spring planting, south of Dover. |
Approaching the DelDOT
headquarters building from the south. The view of the helipad is blocked
by the instrument panel. |
The helicopter that made these photographs possible. |
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