The Pilot House
Outside the pilot house.  Solar panels on the roof for elextricity.	The windmill that roars all night.  It is the other component of power production for the pilot house.
The kitchen. A very important room, of course. It overlooks Lake Turkana to the west. See the next two pictures.	The view looking west from the pilot house in Gatab.  Beautiful sunsets.	Another sunset
The People
The ladies' group here in Gatab. That's Esther Focking in the middle. Her husband, Friedhelm is the doctor at the Gatab Hospital.	Jeff and Josh Heidorn working on their house. The Heidorns run Haven Home: dormitories for the children attending the primary school in Gatab.	That's Kaima, our previous airfield worker. He keeps the animals off the runway, and helps with fueling the plane and sweeping out the hangar. We had to fire him when he took a second wife.
The Lapersanta family.The father works at Haven Home.	The Lemasor family. Timothy and his wife are the boys' dorm dorm parents.	Mambalia Leparsanty and family. Mambalia is one of the station askaris (gaurds).
Arlee and family. Arlee is one of the station workers, in charge of the station water system.	Manai Lenawomuro and family. Manai is basically the station foreman.	Manai and Arlee, two of the station workers and gaurds (askaris) at Gatab.  Posing in their new uniforms.
Zipporah, Manai's wife.	Jim Teasdale and Bob Cornuke.  I dropped them and Mom at Sedar, an airstrip in the middle of the desert, while I went to Kurungu to pick up two more people.  Jim is the senior missionary at Loiyangalani just down the hill from Gatab.
Flying Around Gatab
Coming home. Beth took this one of me on final approach into Gatab.	Loading empty fuel drums to take to Loiyangalani so the DC-3 can take them back to Nairobi. That's Peter in the middle, our new airfield worker, and Steve Hoekstra on the right, a mechanic who was in Nairobi for about 8 months. You can get 5 empty drums in a C-206.	People from Olturot I picked up to bring to Gatab for some medical training.
Unloading cargo at Ngororoi for Pastor Daniel and the community.	This passenger didn't want to get onboard.	Children at Ngororoi who came out to gawk at the airplane. The plane coming is a big event.
Landing at Gatab at the end of a long day.	Putting the plane away at Gatab after that long day.	Fueling, bush style.  Metal buckets are a priority since you can ground them, reducing static discharge risks.  We pour through a Mr Funnel which has a built in filter.
Taking off from Ngurunit for a photo mission over Larapasi, where Temple Knowles has just finished a major water project, building a dam around a natural catchment to extend it to about 2 million liters capacity.	My trusty steed, 5Y-CMA.  October 2008 in Loiyangalani.  We've since changed CMA for 5Y-LMB which was here in Gatab before as N756MS.	Picking up passengers at Olturot.  The missionary on the left is Brian Hoffman, who was here at Gatab for about five years, some years back.