I was heading home from Arlington and passing Snohomish when it occurred to me that there might be an opportunity to shoot the Skydive Snohomish jump ship.  They operate a Blackhawk conversion of the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan.  The conversion adds a more powerful engine which is useful for a jump ship that is focused on getting loads to altitude fast and then returning to do it all again.  I turned off to the airport and saw that operations where on a southerly flow which means towards the road.

As I drove around, the plane took off directly over me, but I had no time to stop and get a shop.  I parked up and watched it climbing above me and then disgorging its load of what my friend Bob calls meat bombs.  The descent was pretty rapid, and the plane was landing as the jumpers were making their approaches.  It pulled off the runway and then held on a taxiway for a while.  It appeared that they waited until the next lift was ready to board at which point, they pulled up to the skydive facility and got everyone on board.

It was a short taxi to the hold point and then they were lined up and powering towards me.  It is a short runway at Harvey Field, but they were rapidly airborne and climbing above me and on their way to the drop point.  Once they were gone, I packed up my stuff and headed home.