Desolation Sound (Day 3)

Well, I did it!  This morning I asked Fatty to drop me off at the Squirrel Cove harbour and I made my way home from there.  There is no taxi service on Cortes Island, so the locals hitchhike!  I've never hitchhiked before, but this wonderful woman gave me a lift all the way to Campbell River!

Thank you Victoria!!!  :-)

Once I arrived in Campbell River, I took a Greyhound ($36.12 CAD) to Nanaimo and booked a seaplane!

Harbour Air charged me just $69.00 CAD for a trip to Downtown Vancouver!

Yes, I could have just spent $15 on a BC Ferry, but then I'd be back on the water for an hour and 40 minutes.  This plane can make it in just 20 minutes!

The cockpit.

Now, this was fucken funny!  When the pilot played the Passenger Instructional Video, I recognized a bunch of the actors in it.  That's Bill getting his cellphone taken away!

Marisol wearing a lifejacket...

and Patrick inflating one!  LOL!

I've never taken a seaplane before,

so I was pretty determined to do so.

Yeah, fuck that ride!  ;-)

The view from up here is spectacular!

A lighthouse on an island.

The rear view.

The starboard pontoon.

That's UBC!

Approaching Downtown Vancouver.

Hey, I've run that Seawall countless times!

You can see straight down Georgia Street from up here!

Time to land.

We've arrived!

Disembarking.

I've always watched these planes come and go from afar,

so it was awesome to finally take a ride in one!

I don't plan on taking a ferry ever again.  ;-)

It's good to be back!  :-)

I'm hungry.

Huh, I bet that's a picture car from "Almost Human"!

Well, I dropped by Cambie Pizza to visit Adrianna, Leanne, and Ed!

And of course, I ordered my favourite Oro Verde Pizza.  Hartley's wife, Grace just happened to be here too!

Seriously, what an adventure the day turned out to be!?!  :-)