Leg 234, Kamloops, BC, Canada to Friday Harbor, Washington, USA
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The last of Canada until the the end of my tour, more of British Columbia and the much bigger than I thought Vancouver Island. I flew on into the night to end this leg at the iconic Friday Harbor Airport, FSX’s default flight location.
04-12 Kamloops CYKA 5:34 PM
04-12 Knustfor Airstrip CYKS 5:37 PM
04-12 Cache Creek CAZ5 5:54 PM
04-12 Lillooet CYLI 6:08 PM
04-12 Pemberton CYPS 6:25 PM Whistler Blackcomb 50°06’55.0"N 122°56’53.0"W
04-12 Squamish CYSE 6:48 PM
04-12 Pitt Meadows CYPK 7:03 PM
04-12 Vancouver Intl CYVR 7:15 PM PG Area
04-12 Sechelt-Gibsons CAP3 7:52 PM
04-12 Gillies Bay CYGB 8:06 PM
04-12 Powell River CYPW 8:11 PM
04-12 Hansen Airfield CCI9 8:23 PM
04-12 Stuart Island Airstrip CYCM 8:38 PM
04-12 Alert Bay CYAL 9:06 PM
04-12 Port McNeill CAT5 9:08 PM
04-12 Port Hardy CYZT 9:14 PM Alone 50°32’20.6"N 127°58’54.3"W (Around the island)
04-12 Woss CAK4 9:50 PM
04-12 Tofino CYAZ 10:18 PM
04-12 Sekiu 11S 10:45 PM
04-12 Williams R Fairchild Intl KCLM 10:58 PM Victoria PG Area 48°25’7"N, 123°22’15"W
04-12 Victoria Intl CYYJ 11:27 PM
04-12 Stuart Island West 2WA3 11:33 PM Drone cam landing
04-12 Waldronaire 90WA 11:40 PM Drone cam landing
04-12 Orcas I KORS 11:46 PM
04-12 Clam Harbor WA35 11:56 PM Short runway, luckily some street lights
04-13 Wilding Farm 6WA5 12:13 AM 5 attempts, need better lights on this plane
04-12 Friday Harbor KFHR * 12:19 AM
Flight time 6:45 26 stops
Departure from Kamloops, beautiful day out
New Afton Mine along the Trans Canada Highway
Flying over Penny Lake in Walhachin, Thompson River down in the valley
Cache Creek on the Trans Canada Highway
Cache Creek Airport
Flying to Lillooet, should be over the next mountain range
Lillooet, formerly Cayoosh Flat, a community on the Fraser River
BC Hydro Seton Lake on Audrey Creek
Pemberton, one half still covered in snow
Mount Currie (8,501ft) in my way to Whistler
Whistler Blackcomb, The Spearhead (8,061ft) and Blackcomb peak (7,992ft) on the left
Whistler Mountain (7,156ft) on the right. 23 lifts, 200 km of slopes and 50 km of ski routes
By many measures the largest ski resort in NA with the greatest uphill lift capacity
There is even a peak to peak Gondola
Scenes from the 2010 winter Olympics
And when the snow goes, you can enjoy downhill mountain biking
There is more to see in Whistler, for example Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre
Flying on to Squamish, watch the well camouflaged power lines
Leaving the snow behind over Indian Arm and Croker Island
Port Mann Bridge crossing the Fraser River near Vancouver
Following the Fraser River to Vancouver International Airport, watching all the log booms on the river
Mitchell Island, so many wood logs
After a quick stop at the airport, entering downtown Vancouver over Granville Bridge
All the traffic is on a lower AI generated bridge…
Zooming down Granville Street
Waterfront station and Vancouver Lookout
Which is where Canada Place is, convention center built to look like a ship
It looks like King Kong stepped on the train set
Fairmont Hotel on Hornby street. Robson square looks like it’s overtaken by nature
Science world at the end of False Creek
BC Place, 50,000 seat stadium with retractable roof
Some random shots from Vancouver, one of Canada’s densest, most ethnically diverse cities
A peek into Vancouver’s Museum of Anthropology
Heading North along the Strait of Georgia, Sechelt on the lower Sunshine Coast
Powell River
Savary Island
Stuart Island, Estero Peak (5,472ft) on the horizon
Where is the airport hidden
There you are, sneaky ■■■■■■
Beautiful place to land and take off
Big turn over Bute Inlet, heading to Vancouver Island
Johstone Strait, looking at Vancouver Island
West Cracroft Island
Alert Bay, this one in BC (other in Nunavut)
Almost to the top of Vancouver Island
Winter Harbour near the north end of Vancouver Island
Grant Bay at Winter Harbour
Quatsino Provincial Park
Alone was filmed around this area, best survival show
Very well made, I hope it comes back, so relaxing to watch
Merry Widow Mountain (4,610ft)
Megin Peak (4,918ft) There are a lot of mountains on Vancouver Island
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Tofino-Long Beach Airport
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Flying over the Salish Sea
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Sekiu, Clallam County, Washington, USA
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Population 27, just south of Vancouver Island
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Sunset at Sekiu Airport
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Victoria, the capital of British Colombia on the southwest end of Vancouver Island
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Esquimalt rd going over the Johson Street Bridge
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Salish Sea Industrial Services Ltd with a ship turn table
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The Inner Harbour with the Legaslative Assembly on the right, Victoria Conference center left
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Craigdarroch Castle, Victorian castle built by the coal baron Robert Dunsmuir between 1887 & 1890
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Victoria International Airport
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Not done yet, flying on into the night
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Waldron Island, USA just across the border
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Orcas Island
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Winding farm, near impossible to land at night, 5 attempts later
https://i.imgur.com/11wdhxc.png
Still not sure if I’m on a ‘runway’, pure folly attempting this!
Reached my goal for the day, Friday Harbor, the starting location for FSX
https://i.imgur.com/BDzng58.png
View from the tower
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I’ll see what the airport looks like tomorrow, then on to Seattle.