Yesterday was day two of the Seattle Maritime Festival, which featured tugboat races, wooden boat building, and best of all--a Coast Guard helicopter rescue demonstration. The Coast Guard flew out one of their Jayhawk helicopters up to Seattle from the air base in Astoria Oregon (our local air base has the smaller Dolphin helicopters), dropped a dummy in the water, then had one of their rescue swimmers jump out of the helicopter, 'rescue' the dummy, and hoisted the swimmer and dummy back into the helicopter. This all happened in Elliott Bay, a few hundred yards away from the dock where we watched. It was awesome, very similar to some of the scenes in the movie 'The Guardian' (which I highly recommend).
Afterwards, Liam met the Coast Guard officer who provided explanations and commentary during the demonstration, and we grabbed a quick shot of him and his daughter with our little guy.
It was a great day--tugboat races, helicopters, and people dressed like orcas. What more could you ask for?
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