Fourth of a series… near the peak of foliage season (mid-October) we decided to fly from Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine, following the shoreline, in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata was in back with a door removed (frosty!) and a Nikon D850. Instrument student Vince Dorow was with me in the front seats.
Old Orchard Beach, Maine:
Some pretty nice houses (and other complexes) for sure, and I had no idea of the complexity of the seashore. No high rises, no condos, no Miami/Ft Lauderdale look.
We’re Democrats here in the Northeast, which means we think you shouldn’t live on the coast unless you can afford a full acre of oceanfront land!
As always, good pictures with very high quality. Are those taken on your iPhone 12 Pro Max? Are they taken from the inside the cockpit where the windshield is in between the landscape and the camera?
Btw, I see several large and nice mansions with a lot of waisted space. Do any of those owners welcome the less fortunate into their homes? It would be a good place to hangout till when we conquered coronafear.
There is no autopilot in our classic R44 Raven I, so I generally leave the photography to Tony, a professional aerial photographer! He was using a Nikon D850. I did have Vince as a co-pilot on this trip, but I also didn’t want to have two doors removed. That’s noisy, windy, and cold!
Based on voting records, it is fair to estimate that more than half of the oceanfront mansion owners are Friends of the Vulnerable. But sometimes the best way to help the vulnerable is to lock them into their public housing 2BR apartments while you enjoy your 5-50-acre beachfront estate…