Helicopter ride!! What an amazing experience! It was the perfect day for it too, hot, so with the doors off we had amazing air circulation, and it made for much better photography! A little hairy at parts when you lean over and there's nothing but your seatbelt to keep you from falling about 400 feet. Or when you accidentally stick your elbow out just past the doorway and 11o mile an hour wind hits it. Other than that, it's the coolest thing ever!
My dad and I were driving to Redwood to drop off some old mowers and we passed Maxson Airfield, I mentioned that it would be cool to take the helicopter tour. So on our way back, we stopped in and signed up for the ride. The ride itself was half an hour and it felt like it was 10 minutes. But damn, what a view! Seeing the river from such a long way up, you really get to see what the river is like and how islands are formed.
As you can see, the top of the rock is not even half of the real rock. The rest of it, like an ice berg, lurks below. This, for those that don't know, is a shoal. Basically it's a rock that comes out of nowhere in the middle of the river, to claim your lower unit, prop, or underside of your boat. 
The other thing that is cool about being up so high is that you get to see things that you normally don't get to see when you are on the surface. Like this old dock crib. This dock was around long before the existing dock and boathouses ever existed but as time went on and the people moved, the dock was removed, but the crib remains.
There are so many other things that were awesome about this flight but they would make this post way too long, so I'll just leave you with the words of, if you ever get a chance to take a tour in the air around, do it. You won't regret it. It really is life changing when you get to see something from a totally different perspective.
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