aerial photos

Last week I went up in a small plane to get some aerial photos of a new recreation area being developed.
I love heights. I have been in hot air balloons, jumped out of a plane, flown to the eastern hemisphere and back. Regardless, all did almost not end well as the dips and turns and bright sun and shooting out at a crooked horizon made me nauseous. Thanks to reporter Brett's "look forward!" advice I made it to the ground in one piece and the photos turned out alright.

Aerial photo looking at intersection of Pyott Road and Rakow Road.

A bulldozer works Wednesday at Three Oaks Recreation Center in Crystal Lake. Since the area was previously a quarry, many of the on-site stones were used in constructing the amenities.

The marina and trails at Three Oaks Recreation Center in Crystal Lake are scheduled to open in the fall of 2010, and the beach will open in the summer of 2011.

Three Oaks Recreation Center spans more than 500 acres. Below is the building from the shot above.