Tour De Great Salt Lake

I hope my readers won't mind a brief aside.  A week ago Saturday, the weather was nice enough for a flight around Northern Utah.

I left Brigham City and flew west to the Golden Spike Site and then south to Rozel Bay and the Spiral Jetty.  Then, south along the Promontory Peninsula, across the Union Pacific Railroad Causeway and around Fremont Island.  The return leg took me over the evaporation ponds of Western Zirconium and along the south end of Willard Bay and back to Brigham.

Unless you have access to a plane, you probably haven't seen the diverse colors of the Great Salt Lake.  It really is quite amazing.  I hope you enjoy these.

 The red line shows my approximate flight path.

 Rozel Bay and flats

 

The Spiral Jetty

 

 The the West side of the Promontory Mountains

 View looking West from Rozel Bay

 This section of the causeway is near the tip of the Promontory Peninsula.

 The Union Pacific Causeway separating the North half of the lake from the South.  The North half supports a red algae and doesn't get the freshwater runoff that the South does.  (The North half is much more salty.)  This creates the dramatic difference in the colors.

 

 Fremont Island

 The evaporation ponds that Western Zirconium uses to extract minerals from the lake water

 

and back to Brigham

Week 90 Flying

I'm still not satisfied with these photos and my camera, but here they are anyway.  I hope you enjoy them. (I took these on Friday.)

Week 89 Flying

Martha made up for changing the file settings on my camera by taking these photos with her iPhone!  These are some good ones!

Brigham City North Stake Center

Hand on the throttle

Northwest corner of the cemetery

Right aileron deflected up, right wing down in a right bank, and the Brigham City Temple

Week 9 from the Air

Still not much to see in this stage of the construction. The sun was just coming up this morning over the Wellsville Mountains and it was a bit hazy when my flying buddy, John took these pictures.

Temple Lot

I took these pictures of the temple lot from N7840U, a Cessna C-172, last Friday, during an incredibly beautiful afternoon and evening. The weather was remarkable for this time of year. Usually we have very unsettled weather, windy, rainy and cloudy until summer finally arrives, but it was severe clear and very calm.

The lot is in the center of the photos, to the right of the big white building and down from the Tabernacle with the large white spire.