When your mate asks you if you want to go on a "road trip" to BC.... "sure".. would be the obvious answer.. then.... "where?" ... How bout Victoria BC... "oh... ah... Sure ey"!...
With visions of a few days on a a pretty island with several trips to the Butchard Garden thing.. ( probably wrong spelling, but will have to do for now ) and other "chick" vacation related things in mind.. off we went..
Little did I know that our view from the deck of our time share would be of the very active port and AIRPORT of Victoria BC!!
From 8:00am untll dusk, the sound of hard working props, both turbine and, best of all.. RADIAL powered waifted into our room..
Beautuful weather and NON STOP aviation action greated this very grateful vacationer.. so much so that this turned into a "working" vacation and we'll have more from sunny British Columbia's very active harbor "airport" in a future update..
Oh.. the HAPPY to be back in the USA thing.. Seems, you drive a car with USA plates in Canada.. at least in Vancouver BC.. (second half of trip) and you're an "ugly American"...
Next time I see BC plate here in the states, I'll have to remember where my horn button and harsh comments are hidden...
Geez ey... we're just your neighbor's to the south ey.. you overcharge by a factor of 125% for your beer and then yell and honk horns at us ey??
What's up with that ey??
Run outta back bacon did ya ey???
Oh well... Vancouver Island (Victoria) seemed pretty USA friendly...
Pretty too!
MORE later..
PS... added another image.. a night shot of the bay where the floatplanes come in.. The dramatic approaches can't be captured on "film" you'd just have to see them..
I'm sure it's just "same-o-same-o" to the pilots but it sure looks cool seeing these birds nosing over heading toward the water with all the other action going on, then ever so gracefully, they skim the water and stop REALLY quickly... well.. slow dramatically, they don't really stop till they reach the dock but man. What a neat show to have out your deck window for two days! I wanna go back for a week.. take the flights.. Really pretty part of the world!
With visions of a few days on a a pretty island with several trips to the Butchard Garden thing.. ( probably wrong spelling, but will have to do for now ) and other "chick" vacation related things in mind.. off we went..
Little did I know that our view from the deck of our time share would be of the very active port and AIRPORT of Victoria BC!!
From 8:00am untll dusk, the sound of hard working props, both turbine and, best of all.. RADIAL powered waifted into our room..
Beautuful weather and NON STOP aviation action greated this very grateful vacationer.. so much so that this turned into a "working" vacation and we'll have more from sunny British Columbia's very active harbor "airport" in a future update..
Oh.. the HAPPY to be back in the USA thing.. Seems, you drive a car with USA plates in Canada.. at least in Vancouver BC.. (second half of trip) and you're an "ugly American"...
Next time I see BC plate here in the states, I'll have to remember where my horn button and harsh comments are hidden...
Geez ey... we're just your neighbor's to the south ey.. you overcharge by a factor of 125% for your beer and then yell and honk horns at us ey??
What's up with that ey??
Run outta back bacon did ya ey???
Oh well... Vancouver Island (Victoria) seemed pretty USA friendly...
Pretty too!
MORE later..
PS... added another image.. a night shot of the bay where the floatplanes come in.. The dramatic approaches can't be captured on "film" you'd just have to see them..
I'm sure it's just "same-o-same-o" to the pilots but it sure looks cool seeing these birds nosing over heading toward the water with all the other action going on, then ever so gracefully, they skim the water and stop REALLY quickly... well.. slow dramatically, they don't really stop till they reach the dock but man. What a neat show to have out your deck window for two days! I wanna go back for a week.. take the flights.. Really pretty part of the world!
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