Winterfest Boat Parade (12/13)

Every year, in south Florida (Fort Lauderdale), there is the Winterfest festival (usually the second weekend in December). One of the major attractions to this tradition is the "boat parade", where boats and yachts are decorated with Christmas lights and cruise up and down the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway from Fort Lauderdale to Pompano Beach.



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Sunset At Over 42,000 Feet (12/4)

The images below were taken during a recent end-of-the week trip to Toronto in Ontario, Canada (not far from Buffalo, New York). Quite impressive is in the image to the left, taken in the gloaming twilight at an altitude of just above 42,000 feet aboard WestJet airlines. This is pretty much the service "ceiling" for such commercial aircraft (Boeing 737-700). The plane is this high to fly over an area of turbulence.



The inset shows the speed and altitude, and the curverature of the earth is clearly visible in the photo. To the right, is a shot of downtown Toronto just after sunset, with the 1,500 foot+ CN Tower rising high above the sky-scrapers into the night sky. Be sure to check out my section on FLYING for more amazing pictures of flying / arial views. You can also click on the link provided below to jump to that section ...

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