Cocoa Beach Air Show

What a great venue!  Playing in the water, or lounging on Cocoa Beach, watching a pretty high tech Air Show.  Patrick Air Force Base, and Kennedy Space Center and NASA are all within just a few miles.   It was hot, but the ocean was cool.

The Army Paratroopers were first to arrive.  By the time the 3rd one landed, we ran over to within 50 feet of where the next 2 landed.

This is our new friend, Josie.  We cleaned up the beach together before the event as part of Keep Brevard Beautiful. What a neat girl.  We really enjoyed meeting her.

Can you see the formation of 6 jets behind them?

Here is Drake, splashing around in the water, watching the planes.  Ahhhh!

Can you see the planes?

Couldn't have been a prettier day at Cocoa Beach!

What a crowd!

This was my favorite part.  Four para-troupers jumped out of a plane.  They are going to end up in the water.

Here is one of them splashing down.

They have fins on.  Probably a wetsuit too.

Then, a helicopter came and picked them up!

Did you ever see that picture that floated around in forwarded emails for awhile.  It was a helicopter just like this one, with a guy climbing up a rope ladder, and a huge great white shark, jaws open wide, about to eat the guy....

Well, thats what is just about to happen here.  (Except for the shark part, of course.)

Here, you can barely see the guy who is almost done climbing that rope ladder.

This was also very cool.  Here, two helicopters are re-fueling behind this ginourmous plane.

 And, of course, we can't forget the self-portrait.