Syl stayed with us recently, and captured these pictures of Brian with his Piper PA-11 float plane.
He titled them "Landing" and "Landed", but rightfully pointed out that no land was actually involved... Perhaps "Laking" and "Laked" would be more appropriate?
Float planes epitomize northern Ontario... the way the old Lake Steamers such as the SS Segwun (now operating out of Gravenhurst) epitomized the opening up of 'cottage country'. We are not a country of easy roadways and simple distances. We are a country (as the Arrogant Worms so correctly sing) of rocks and trees and trees and rocks and WATER!
Brian, like his father before him, like all pilots of float planes everywhere, complains that he does not get enough time in the air. Partly that's being busy, and partly that is because you have to fly when the weather permits. These are not heavy aircraft that can power through the elements... Still, there is something hauntingly romantic about float planes, drifting down onto the lakes -- 'laking and laked' and speaking of the northern land and the beautiful freedom of the sky.
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