April 14, 2024 - Toccoa, GA to Home

I was finally able to head for home today.  The winds were upposed to be light in the morning but pick up around 10AM so I got up early and made a dawn takeoff.

This is the terminal at Toccoa Airport.  Very nice inside.  But it's not the FBO which is out of sight to the right, and is just an office, adjoining a hangar.
   
The FBO hangar.
   
Friendly airport cat.
   
Looking northwest at the Blue Ridge Mountains.
   
Looking southeast down an offshoot of the Savanah River/Hartwell Lake.  I did not fly this offshoot, but did fly Hartwell Lake which you can see in the distance.   On the offshoot's right is Georgia, on the left is South Carolina.
   
At upper top left is Lake Jocassee which I flew yesterday.
   

Looking down at Rutherford County Airport (KFQD).
   
Passing over an unknown airport.
 
This was a boring, transit flight.  I couldn't wait for it to be over and get back home.
   

Before 10AM I am back over familiar territory.  There's the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Kent Island.  Weather is excellent.
   
My first look from the air at the collapsed Key Bridge.
   
The container ship that caused the bridge collapse is still there, with a chunk of bridge laying across its bow.
   

Wow, that ship really did a job on the bridge.

I would cross the Key Bridge every time I drove to Essex Skypark.  Now I'll have to take one of the two tunnels underneath the Patapso River.  If there is no traffic, the commute time is only 5 minutes longer.  The Key Bridge route rarely had traffic.  Traffic along the tunnel route is more likely, so no doubt losing the Key Bridge will waste many hours for me.  Multiply that times hundreds of thousands,and you get probably millions of manhours wasted sitting in traffic because of this disaster.
   
Home base: Essex Skypark.
   
 
   
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