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Section 1: Barn and Pool (d1_canals_06)
1 of 13: Sail along the passageway until you crash through a wooden barrier and emerge outdoors near a large red barn. This must be the supply station that the woman in the airboat garage mentioned.
2 of 13: The barn is totally optional, and you can just boat on by it if you don't want the supplies that are in the lambda-marked crate that's hanging from the crane.
4 of 13: Past the barricade, you'll soon come to a bridge where a resistance guy will yell to you and drop you some supplies before he's chased off by scanners.
5 of 13: After collecting the supplies and bashing the scanners for armor batteries, go past the bridge to discover the next major obstacle.
6 of 13: After you turn the corner in the area past the pool, look ahead to see a Combine dropship hovering over the ground in the distance. (Another one will fly overhead, but you don't need to worry about it.)
7 of 13: The dropship near the ground is dropping off several cops that you could just drive on past (or through), but note that there's a secret area near them that you might want to raid, plus a possible G-Man sighting nearby.
8 of 13: After you airboat around the next corner, you'll see three cops drop down onto a concrete slope from a higher ledge. You can either drive on by, or swerve onto the slope to run them all over.
9 of 13: Just around the next corner is another barricade that you have to get the airboat over.
10 of 13: As soon as you get over the log barricade, hug the right side of the canal so that you'll knock over the wooden structures that several cops are standing on, thereby sending them to their deaths in the radioactive sludge.
11 of 13: TIP: Just past that, stop the airboat on the grassy hill over on the right if you need any SMG ammo -- there's several boxes of it hiding in the grass.
12 of 13: As you go under the bridge past that, watch out for the two barnacles -- they can grab you right out of the airboat if you drive directly underneath either one of them.
13 of 13: Section 2: Big Gate and APCs will load right after you go under the bridge that's past the one with the barnacles on it.
