Last month I was privileged to fly along with my husband one day. It ended up being a very tiring day with 6 stops in the interior of our island. But it was a great experience for me to see him in action and be reminded of what God led our family here to do. Here are the photos from our trip.
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| Beautiful day to go fly! |
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| The plane we were going to fly being loaded, with our mountain in the background. |
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| Pre-flight inspection |
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| Pre-flight inspection |
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| Going over details with the loaders |
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| The skilled pilot! |
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| We were headed west. Horizon in this picture is the ocean. |
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| Lots of low lying clouds. Sometimes he has to circle around, either waiting for cloud to burn off or to find a hole and fly beneath the clouds to the airstrip. |
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| Fly-over of our first stop. They always fly over once before landing, to visually inspect runway for obstacles (pigs, dogs, people, etc) and to give a heads up to the people that they will be landing soon! |
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| Our first passenger getting unloaded. She has worked in this village, translating God's Word, for the past 34 years! |
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| Everyone wants to help unload and carry things, as they might get a little money or some candy. |
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| It's amazing how dense the trees are! People compare it to broccoli, looking down from the plane you rarely see any clearings, except for rivers and air strips. |
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| Quick peek of the 3 new homes built in Turumo, as we fly-over before landing! |
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| Coming in to land at Turumo, crossing over river on final. |
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| Our friends new village house! K flew over 30 plane loads of supplies into this village to help with the building of this home and the 2 other homes. |
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| Flying over airstrip #3 |
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| This village has a government sponsored health clinic. We were picking up a national doctor who was flying home for Christmas. |
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| Writing passenger receipts |
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| Making good use of the wing-pods, specially designed for this airplane by our organization, in order to carry more cargo. |
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| Next stop was delivering a box of medicine to this co-worker, who will distribute the meds among villagers when they come to him. |
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| Everyone admires the pilot |
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| Next airstrip in view |
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| This stop was to get some fuel, as we would need it to return home. |
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| Fuel is stored in drums and hand pumped into the plane. |
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| Working the hand pump |
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| The Dr. we had on board noticed one of the kids had a wound on her foot, so she was asking what happened and giving advice for caring for it properly. It was cool to see her compassion for these villagers, whom she had never met before, and who have absolutely no access to healthcare at all. |
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| The wing provides much-sought-after shade! Temps were over 100 F |
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| Incredible river |
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| Broccoli. Everywhere. |
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| Last stop was to pick up some passengers. Only problem was there were 11 of them and only room for 5 in our plane. The guy looking at a paper is responsible for making a list of passengers. He was trying to figure out how to pick which 5 would go on our flight. |
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| Lots of decisions to be made |
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| The guys who wanted to get on the flight... |
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| The lucky 5 who were chosen |
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| Lots of clouds building on our way back into town |
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| Beautiful terrain (note the lack of roads)! |
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| Lake that borders our town and the airport |
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| The terminal you will enter when you come to visit us! |
