The de Havilland Beaver that carries most passengers across the Strait of Georgia was designed in 1947 for bush pilots, and the type has never been bettered for this coast. Commercial floatplanes have worked Burrard Inlet since the 1920s, when logging camps and canneries up Howe Sound were reachable only by water. Coal Harbour became the natural terminus: sheltered, deep, and a short walk from the banks and warehouses of downtown. The modern water aerodrome at Unit #1 Burrard Landing, 1055 Canada Place, Vancouver, BC V6C 0C3 sits on that same stretch of working shoreline, its docks pointed west toward the First Narrows. Seaplane tours vancouver to victoria depart from here on the same heading pilots have flown for a century. What makes the route matter is geography. Howe Sound is a fjord — glacially carved, over 300 metres deep in places — and the flight crosses its mouth at low altitude, where the Tantalus Range, Anvil Island and Bowen Island stack up in sequence. Beyond, the Gulf Islands scatter across the Salish Sea before the aircraft settles into Victoria's Inner Harbour, the only downtown-to-downtown water aerodrome pairing of its kind in North America. A crossing that takes ninety minutes by ferry and coach takes roughly thirty-five minutes on the step of a float. The aircraft themselves are part of the record. Turbine Otters and piston Beavers, high-winged and unpressurised, fly low enough that the water reads as water rather than texture. There is no cabin altitude to speak of; windows open on the ground; every seat is a window seat. Passengers board directly from a floating dock rather than a jet bridge, which is why a seaplane tours vancouver to victoria tour feels closer to boarding a boat than an airliner. The terminal reflects that informality. Entry costs 0 CAD — free entry to terminal; flights are ticketed per person — and the building functions as much as a public vantage point over Coal Harbour as a departure lounge. Doors open at 06:30 Monday through Friday and 06:45 on weekends, closing at 19:45 daily. Victoria, at the far end, is a colonial harbour town of 1843 origins, its causeway framed by the Empress Hotel and the Parliament Buildings. Floatplanes have landed in front of both since the interwar years. Seaplane tours vancouver to victoria therefore trace a supply line older than the highway, older than the ferry system, and considerably more scenic than either.