Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
This one might not be new to some of you, but this picture of a sea plane taking off in Alaska was too good not to post 
If you look around the edges of the port (or is it dock?) you can see hundreds of other sea planes parked (should this be anchored?), most of which are brightly coloured for some reason.
Thanks: paulio
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go south a bit and theres another airport with a plane on the run way
Brightly Colored:
I’m thinking that if you go down in a snow storm – or just in the snow – you want to be visible!
That would be Lake Spenard, which, joined together with Lake Hood, makes up the single busiest seaplane airport in the world. I used to live just a Placemark: wee bit north / Google Earth of where you pointed to.
I also have a Quicktime VR movie taken just a Placemark: little further along the shoreline / Google Earth last summer during a visit (just be patient, my webserver isn’t the speediest in the world) if you’d like a more down-to-earth look.
True, it is Alaska after all
wow … but this isn’t straight to the ground – it makes me a bit dizzy
Bill Shirley is correct. Brightly coloured aircraft , “bushplanes” are typical of those flying over the vast remoteness of northern Canada and Alaska. The colour assists search and rescue aircrew spot downed aircraft in heavy timber, snow or otherwise. Nice spot Paulio
it certainly is lake spenard… and how amazing it is to see via satellite. slight contrast to how i saw it early march 2005…Floatplanes and
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