Posts by Douglas
Day 17 & 18 Rain day and Beach day
Day 17 was a rain day, but we had a great time. I went to the airport and spent some leisurely time organizing and cleaning things up with the plane and Julie did some badly-needed relaxing. We then went to a place called Picnic Charcuterie and got a bunch of gourmet meats and cheeses for…
Read MoreDay 19 Oyster Farm and Black Rabbits
The weather forecast improved just as it was time for us to leave Tofino and move on to the East side of Victoria Island. We had set up a stop along the way to tour an oyster farm and we were very excited to get going but I noticed that the airspeed indicator was showing…
Read MoreDay 20, The Turbulence of Amor
Courtenay Airpark is a beautiful little community airstrip right next to the river. Click here for Video of Landing Float planes can land on the river and tie up at a dock or go to their ramp and they have a number of things called Gators that consists of the front end of a pickup…
Read MoreDay 21, To the Sunshine Coast and Lucky Docking
This was the day to move from Courtenay across the channel and over to the Sunshine Coast on the mainland. We had reservations for 3 nights at the West Coast Wilderness Lodge. I had spent months trying to arrange for a safe parking spot at the marina next door to the lodge and finally had…
Read MoreDay 22, Chatterbox and landing gear problem
We had a wonderful breakfast at the lodge and headed out to go up the Jarvis Inlet to Chatterbox Falls. It was an extremely long Inlet and it was a gorgeous sightseeing flight even along the inlet there were many waterfalls coming down the granite cliffs from the snow above. It was hard to…
Read MoreDay 23, Tie up to Waterfall and No Fuel
We had to get up before sunrise and the off the dock just after sunrise due to the timing of the slack current. Julie was a great sport even though we had been up late with another wonderful long dinner at the resort and neither one of us wanted to be getting up at that…
Read MoreDay 24 & 25 Deadly Downdraft and a Rolls-Royce
Well, this was our last morning breakfast at the lodge and as usual it was beautiful. We packed up and gave a good deal of thought to our options for a fuel stop. We could have gone back Northwest to Courtenay for fuel but even though I was positive I had plenty to make that…
Read MoreDay 26, Stafford Lake and Fellow Husky
I got a few basic lunch items the night before and headed out to Stafford Lake. It was almost an hour and half flight North but again, it was beautiful country to fly in. The lake was nice and straightforward to land in with plenty of room to take off and even circle if I…
Read MoreDay 27, Stafford Lake, Again
I did go out to Stafford lake for the second day in a row. It was another beautiful flight out there and the lake was again gorgeous to spend time on. I chose to land in the same way I had the day before, it puts me relatively close to the sandbar that is my…
Read MoreDay 28, Gold Lake and Forgot Something
I headed out to Gold Lake, it is in the mountains of Victoria Island about 50 miles North, Northwest of Courtenay, just Northwest of upper Campbell Lake. Gold Lake is a beautiful spot and is plenty big for an easy takeoff and climbing up over the tree line but I chose not to land. I…
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