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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

I set out that morning to explore a number of lakes down to the southwest of Courtenay. There are quite a few including Comox lake, Great Central lake, Elsie Lake and National Lake. As I got to the south end of Comox lake the wind really picked up from the Southwest and there was an…

I woke up with mixed emotions.  This was to be the day I would fly back into the US.  I was not at all happy to have this wonderful adventure winding down, but at the same time after a month I was also feeling ready to get back home. I had filed my online Homeland…

I woke up to a beautiful but cool and breezy morning. As I was packing things up, the airport attendant that goes around to all the planes and leaves a overnight fee envelope ($10) on each plane came by. As he was walking up I said “OH, I just got here”. He looked a little…

I woke up before my 4:45 a.m. alarm, daydreaming about the day before and enjoying anticipation of the flight I had before me. I had looked at quite a few smoke forecasting websites the night before and it looked like I would have a lot of smoke all across Southern Oregon and Northern California stretching…