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The Beaver Goes Island Hopping In The Gulf Islands

ryan h From Australia, joined Aug 2001, 1451 posts, RR: 1
Posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 3520 times:

Earlier instalments of our Canadian adventure can be found here.
Adelaide To Vancouver Air NZ A320 & 777 Premium Ec (by ryan h Aug 27 2011 in Trip Reports)
The DHC 2 Beaver Experience Over Whistler (by ryan h Aug 30 2011 in Trip Reports)

Was spending a while down at where the floatplanes fly from Vancouver airport.

Dad thought while we are sitting there, he would see if we could get on any flights, just to go on a flight on a floatplane. Did not matter where we went, but everything was full, but someone at Seair said that there was a flight that goes out to some islands taking people and the mail.

Vancouver Airport Seaplane Terminal
Date: Tuesday 2 August 2011
Seat: Various. Moved about after each stop
Aircraft: DHC-2 Beaver
Registration: C-GOBC

Rough map showing roughly where we went.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...801.100001391694914&type=1&theater

I will let the photos do most of the talking here.

The flight was operated by Beaver C-GOBC. As you will see in the photos, as people got on and off, I ended up in different seating positions.

Took off from the seaplane Terminal at Vancouver airport. Was a full load on the way out.

A couple of other floatplanes that were around when we took off.

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

Off we go.

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

I am guessing our cruising alttitude was about 1500 feet.

Legroom was good, but playing musical chairs at every stop was a bit tricky as there is not much room to move about in a Beaver.

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

Our first stop was Miners Bay on Mayne Island.

Smooth landing on the water and once the plane was close enough to the dock, the pilot cut the engine and jumped out onto the dock and tied up.

I think only one person got off here. And some cargo was unloaded too.

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

Once that was done, and the plane had floated away from the dock, the engine was quickly restarted and with the nose pointing roughly into the wind, the throttle was basically firewalled, well that was what it felt like to me and what felt like a lengthy take off run over the water we were up again.

On take off I was a bit surprised to look out the window to see we were quite close to a big car ferry. Again probably I thought we were closer than we were.

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

Passed many little islands that are covered in thick forest and have what look like little fishing huts on them.

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

The next stop was Lyall Harbour on Saturna Island.
Think we picked up one person, while two got off.

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

Again it was a short stop like the last one, about 5 minutes maximum.

Take off was similar to the last one. Get the engine retstarted, point the nose into the wind shove the throttle to the firewall and get going.

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

Again was more forest and water with the occasional house seen out the window.

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

Third and final stop was Port Washington on North Pender Island. Same process as above.

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

Then flew back to where we started out from at Vancouver airport.

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

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Photographer © Ryan Hothersall

Total time on the flight was 2-3 hours. A well spent afternoon out I think.

Not bad for a flight that was booked at very short notice. It only cost 280 Canadian dollars for both of us.

South Australian Spotter

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Kaphias From United States of America, joined Nov 2010, 205 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 3016 times:

Very unique report! Thanks for taking the time to put all the pictures together, I really enjoyed looking at them and reading your commentary.

Flown on: C150, C172, C206, Beaver, Otter, Jetstream 32, Q400, CRJ7/9, E135/40/45, A320, B732/4/7/8/9, B744, B752, B763

ryan h From Australia, joined Aug 2001, 1451 posts, RR: 1
Reply 2, posted (1 year 7 months 2 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 2084 times:

Finally put to video together. It is more a series of videos of the flight edited into one.

http://youtu.be/F6o4DvW3wHo

South Australian Spotter

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