Small aircraft flights over this coastal region are phenomenally popular. For numerous possibilities, visit Tourism Vancouver’s InfoCentre (210—200 Burrard Street, Downtown, 604-683-2000, www.tourism vancouver.com). Baxter Aviation (604-683-6525, www.baxterair.com) employs Canadian de Havilland Beavers to fly visitors over and into the region’s alpine and glacial lakes; West Coast Air (604-606-6888, www.westcoastair.com) does similar tours in Twin Otters, including one up the typically coastal (and beautiful) Jervis Inlet, with a picnic below the waterfall at Chatterbox Falls. Harbour Air Seaplanes (604-274-1277, www.harbour-air.com) will fly you along the fjords and fishing villages of the Sunshine Coast, and into grizzly territory in the Khutzeymateen Valley of northern BC. Pacific Spirit Tours (604-683-0209, www.pacificspirittours.com) combines walking or hiking, boating, rail travel, and flying on various outings, including “a day in the mountains.”
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