Vancouver and Vancouver Island are busy with floatplane activity.  It should have occurred to me that, when we were staying in Nanaimo, that there would be floatplanes to see.  It didn’t, though.  When we took a walk along the waterfront, I had only taken a camera with a short lens attached.  This was not ideal for getting images of the planes in motion but it worked out just fine when they came in close.  We walked along one of the breakwaters surrounding the harbour and, when one of the planes taxied in, it came right by the end of this breakwater.  Sometimes a short lens will do the trick!