Departing Wrens, GA (65J) after our Thanksgiving holiday. Another beautiful flying day with projected tailwinds in excess of 35 knots at 9000 feet. Those would help turn a 9.5 hour drive into a 3.5 hour flight. It's days like this that help justify the ticket to the wife. Me? I'd eat PB&J to save for fuel money. :)
For those that don't realize it, Wrens sits right on a geographic feature called the Fall Line. This marks the boundary between the Piedmont Plateau and the Coastal Plain. It also marks a line of high concentrations of a white clay called kaolin. This product is used in a wide variety of products from anti-diarrheals ("Kaopectate" is a prime example though they stopped using kaolin back in the 80s) to glossy paper. Yep, paper. The glossier it is, the higher the clay content - which helps explain why you have so much more ash after burning a glossy magazine page compared to, say, a newspaper.
Anyway, you see a couple kaolin mines and processing plants in this video. The nearly perfectly cyan blue ponds are settling ponds used to filter processed clay from runoffs.
Oh, and I finally realized the mic input wasn't connected by the time I took off here so this video marks the return of cockpit audio.