Day 24 - In the bush

This day had an early start as we were going to Cedar Key. Cedar Keys was recommended to us by one of the fix winged pilots we had met in Hammond back in Louisiana. Funnily enough we also bumped into him in Destin in the aircraft parking lot. He said to us he forgot to recommend Cedar Key, a great little airstrip that services a great little town. That it was.

We took off from Perry Foley and headed south following I10 freeway. We landed at some nonchalant out of the way municipal airport with overenthusiastic, over friendly staff. We were held at in conversation for 15 minutes and asked many questions about flights before we finally made our escaped. This was the first time we were not able to put in MOGAS as their spare carry tanks were full of diesel. We filled a full tank of AVGAS and kept going. I wanted to keep the pace going as I knew we headed for a smaller airstrip that was out on a peninsular on the coast. With that much exposure I figured a good cross wind would increase the risk upon landing.

As we approached this unique strip, we noticed a crosswind component along with trees lining of the runway possibly causing turbulence. With a little extra speed we made our final approach and was hit by a fair amount of rotor of the trees, the extra speed helped counteract the rotor sink on approach. We landed without incident but happy we did not arrive one hour later.





With no facilities, this was the first time we did not have a hangar to put Mr P in. We pulled him over into the tree cover, tied him down and started to walk into town. Before we had reached the end of the runway, we had already been picked up by the taxi lady of the town who monitors the airport frequencies (unicom). She also worked at the local hotel so we stayed there that night. It was very nice to have a decent shower and relaxed in our own space.


It seemed that the town, being a quaint old fishing village, was full of “those darn Yankees” who had retired to a beautiful warm location. We did not care but the locals did. This town was an island and quite different to what we have seen so far in Florida.