Thursday, June 08, 2006

Flying Chugboats

It’s bad enough that the Chugs are coming ashore on a frequent basis, but now they are flying the chugs to the Dry Tortugas.

It is the Mariel Boatlift 2006…

The guys from the Helo Squadron over on Loggerhead are airlifting the chugs from over there and dropping them on the Helicopter pad so we can disassemble them…


Ranger Sarah and I were on Harbor Duty on Wednesday night keeping the visitors clear of the area while the drop was going on…


On Thursday afternoon they brought a few more over…

The have their work cut out for them…
Over on Loggerhead the chugs are half-buried…

they have to dig them out and get a cargo net around them and then the chopper lifts them off and flies them over here to Garden Key…

Pretty impressive sight…

One really good thing-

With these guys here doing training and test flights we probably won’t have any problem with Cuban migrants…

Hmmm... A new crop of chugs to play with...
I guess I better get my tools out.
Famous.

TBG out-

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