I woke up early and started checking the weather because I wanted to start getting down toward Victoria where Julie would be flying in the next night. That weather was not looking good with strong winds and thunderstorms forecast. I called the flight service station and told the briefer where I wanted to go and…

I checked the weather online and then called flight service for another personal briefing. This time a different briefer and kind of a smart-aleck answer to my request for a briefing of going from my location to Victoria. He said ” to try and get to Victoria today, first answer is no, second answer is…

 It was great to pick up Julie (after-midnight). She had had a very long day getting everything finished up so she could get on her way and she even got a parking ticket at the airport when she was trying to get her baggage unloaded. Also they lost the bag with all her clothes and…

Julie spent some time getting work done at the B&B and I went and found some inner tubes that I could make soft dock bumpers with for when we would be tying up to the boat dock at Back Eddy Marina about a week. It was a beautiful day to fly and Victoria was gorgeous.…

We met Darren, (Island’s finest Sport Fishing and his boat (Miss Guided)) at the dock and headed out on a beautiful morning with blue skies and hardly any swells. We went out to a bank about 8 miles offshore in about 200 feet of water. Darren dropped anchor and put down a big basket of…

We had a leisurely morning at the Air B&B place, it was kind of a one bedroom completely separate guest house.  We never even spoke to the hosts the whole time we were there. We went out flying around the area but there were a number of low cloud layers and even though it would…

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…

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…

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…

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…