The flight home: some fun stuff
photos by Uncle Al
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Before heading home to Canada, I had to fly back to Helsinki. As the plane crossed the east coast of Sweden on its way to Finland at about 10 a.m., it was very interesting to see this fine illustration of thermal lift clouds building up over the heated land only. This of course, will later lead to a "sea breeze".
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After a fun wait of five hours in the Helsinki airport, we were off to Toronto -
by way of Grønland. Summer in Grønland: no wonder Aida was happy to get home!
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Of course, some of the ice does melt in the heat of August!
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Wouldn't this be a fine spot for the DM 2003??
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In the heat of the summer ...
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... the glaciers begin to melt and flow down to the sea. Anyone for a swim??
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It's pretty, though.
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Pretty desolate, too!
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Lots of fjords
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Or perhaps the next International Cruising Rally? I bet there are not many bugs - nothing for them to live from!
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7 p.m. on a Tuesday night as the plane crosses just north of Humber Bay, site of the 1976 and 1995 Worlds.
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TS&CC is just to left of where the boats (white dots) are moored behind the breakwall.
Not many boats out for tonight's TSCC club race (centre).
Toronto Bay, Toronto Islands and their airport can be seen in the upper left.
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Here you can also see Toronto's Outer Harbour (top) plus all of the Toronto Islands. For our annual Around-the-Island Race, we start off TSCC (lower left) and go around the Island clockwise or counter-clockwise with (booo!) no spinnakers permitted in the harbour. Doesn't look like that long a trip from this angle!
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Heading west, we next flew over the Port Credit Yacht Club (inside the long spit), site of the 2004 Worlds.
To the lower right of the PCYC, you can see the Mississauga Sailing Club which will help with these Worlds.
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The waters on which the 2004 Worlds will be sailed.
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