Yes do ask about their courtesy bikes – there’s a half dozen of them and they are well maintained.  Rogers is one of the cutest FBO I’ve visited in CA.

The lakes are full to the brim at the moment.  The spillways are roaring at Lake Oroville.

First sunset flight of the summer (if you can call it a summer) …

Stopped by Eureka Muni just because I could. The Samoa Dunes Park is a favorite with the local ATV crowd.

I’m guessing the airport dates back to the WWII just after Pearl Harbor when the fear of a Japanese invasion was at its height.  According to the local park signage, Japanese submarines would show up once in a while and take pot-shots at local shipping.  Balloons and flying boats would be dispatched to drop bombs on them and the locals would comb the beaches for washed up Japanese “memorabilia”.  The concrete ammunition bunkers are still to be seen along the dunes.

The Oregon coastline has a quite different character to California’s – somehow more blasted and bleak.

In the process of taking the tank out I found an old mouse nest from the days when I was building at the North end of the field.

Rather than reinventing the wheel I decided to use one of the many OpenSource blog software offerings – so here goes with WordPress.