A great feature of the Pacific Northwest is the surfeit of floatplanes that you get to see. It is a region that really suits their usage and so there are lots to see, even if they are amphibious and are operating from runways. I don’t know whether there is a king of the floatplanes, but the Beaver would definitely be a candidate for that title if it were awarded. It is a beast of a plane and looks so cool on floats. This was the last one I got to shoot before leaving.

It turned on to the approach a long way out, but the cold winter weather meant little distortion and the 200-800 can really help in those situations. I had hoped that ATC would have given them an earlier turn on to final which you sometimes get at Paine Field, but it wasn’t to be and they were a lot further out. Never mind. Still a good result for one of my last outings.