Sea Island

Vancouver is an international city, but it's also the stepping off point for hundreds of small islands, remote lakes, and fjords, so besides long runways for wide-body jets coming from China, there needs to be a place for seaplanes to land and takeoff.  They do this from a major seaplane base on the south side of YVR, along the middle arm of the Fraser.

We had dinner at the Flying Beaver* and watched the planes coming and going. This was a cool spot - and crowded on a Friday evening - wish we'd discovered it years ago.

* I think most of the small float planes we see in the Northwest are DeHavilland Beavers.