The weather on Friday was fine but hazy because of the smoke lingering over Ontario from forest fires hundreds of mile northwest of Ottawa. The good thing about this was that the 'inversion' as seen in my photo of the Ottawa River as we turned over the YOW-VOR made for a smooth ride, a bonus at this time of year.
Chris did a straight-in approach to Runway 19 at Kingston and when we landed, swallows darting all around us over the field, we saw from the instruments that it had taken us just a minute over one hour to fly there. The FBO was open but quiet, the tables in the lounge spread out for the sake of social distancing, with just one chair per table. We walked across the grass to the lakeside to eat our packed lunch at the picnic table there, with little waves breaking on the shore.
Our picnic eaten, we set off down the road to the entrance of the Point Lemoine conservation area, so that we could walk on the paths through the fields (Monarch butterflies on the milkweed preserved for them) and the woodland. Raspberries for the picking there, but not many left. We sat on a bench by the water and enjoyed our surroundings.
The flight home was smooth again and event-free, which is good, with up to 30 knots of tailwind at times, the only "bumps" detected being during the last few minutes as we descended into the Rockcliffe circuit, caused by thermal turbulence or perhaps a rising crosswind from the south. The flight had been six minutes faster than our outbound one.
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