Our next flight last night was one of the best flights I've had since I've been here. We flew up to Crystal River which is where I learnt to fly, skimming the clouds around the edges of some big thunderstorms. We went on up the coast at about 700ft to an isolated little island called Cedar Key in Norther Florida on the Gulf coast.
The runway here is pretty short at 2300ft, although still more than twice the landing distance of the duchess, but it's also very wide which can make landing there tricky (especially when we are used to 6500ft here at Fort Pierce). But at least my landing (which was in a straight line!) wasn't the worst done here recenbtly:
We landed and backtracked to the parking area and when we powered down a man and his wife, in a golf cart (which you can just see in the picture) came over and offered us a lift into town! We stood on the back bumper for the 1 mile or so journey into town, with the cart struggling under the weight of the four of us, and the man told us about the history of the island and showed us some of the old buildings, before taking us to 'The Seabreeze On The Dock' which they claimed was the best restaurant in town. A really old building on pillings over the Gulf which did some great Seafood. After dinner we walked back through part of the town to the airport and flew back to Fort Pierce for a total flight time of just under three hours.