Friday afternoon

[glbl]

It turned out that the weather started to change for better after lunch with Barry therefore I decided to skive my structural analysis duties and pressed the pedal to go around Lulu Island with the stops in several places for sightseen and camera button pressing. I mentioned Barry because lunch with him is a kind of political information briefing for both of us. Particularly he is really interested in what is happening in Russia and Ukraine now. In 70-s when I aimed 1.2 megaton warhead of my 8K65 to the Sixth Fleet base in Gibraltar Barry was responsible for the Royal Canadian Air Force McDonnell CF-101 Voodoo equipped with AIR-2 Genie 1.2 kiloton air-to-air missile that protected Canadian skies from invasion of Tu-95. As you see, we have a common ground for such kind of conversations. And today we discussed not only Eastern Ukraine instability, Russia isolation, oil price drop and ruble fall down but the Tu-95s that are buzzing around again. From one side, the RCAF McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornets are much more effective than the CF-101 Voodoos, and, on other side, still same Tu-95s (production of Samara aviation plant by the way) are dangerous not only by the cruise missiles but by their ages and high probability to fail in flight themselves. In such discussions we spent one hour in Thai restaurant, then I dropped Barry to his office and started my excursion.

It’s still heavily cloudy but the weather is really changing:


The larch needless is painted red:


Otter (DHC-3) took off from Fraser’s surface:



The rosehip berries and pool reflection:


This steamer attracts my attention every time when I passed by:


Harbour is half empty, but fishermen boats are arriving for the weekend sale:


Cormorants are resting:


Sunny day in the midst:


The wind grows stronger and scatters the remnants of clouds:


I like this:


And sunny weekend ahead :)