Heavenly Distraction - Canadian Forces Snowbirds

If you follow me on Facebook (my personal profile), it's no secret that I'm an almost-drooling fangirl of the Canadian Forces Snowbirds.  When they're in Comox for spring training every year, I head to the beach with my camera and try to get that elusive photo of the Snowbirds with a resident eagle or with the moon in the background or with the BC Ferry to Powell River.  The last one is the easiest by far!

The Snowbirds left the sky very boring as they stayed in the coop today, but they posted this amazing video of the installation of their their tank cam and footage taken from it.  And they used a perfect song. It's super fun to recognize the maneuvers in the air that I watch from the ground.  I'm sure you can see me down on the beach.....

Enjoy what I get to enjoy from the ground everyday.  (If you're receiving this by email, click here to go to YouTube to watch and give them the thumbs up for me!)




Here is a screen cap from the video. All those cars in the parking lot.... One of them is bound to be me. How lucky can you get? A front row seat without the crowds!

Snowbirds 2011

You'll have to forgive me this little digression.

Every year the Snowbirds practice for three weeks in my backyard.  Almost literally.  This morning I tramped off to the local beach in the rain and hail assuming they'd do one fly-by and their annual show would be over due to the extremely low ceiling.  Well we got a bit more than that!  Yippee!  I love these things!  I have no desire to fly them, although I've been known to jump out of a Cessna or two....  (I like to say I've taken off 7 more times than I've landed in an airplane)  All these photos were taken today except for the one of #6 which was taken off our back deck a few days ago. The single gray aircraft is a F-18 Hornet and I couldn't believe I could see the pilots in my photo.  I mean they were close, but not *that* close.
And I'd just like to say.  Yay Nikon!  I've never had a camera like this.  fyi: it's an 18-105 lens.

Snowbirds website
Snowbirds on Facebook
and I haven't found their official Twitter or YouTube sites yet!