Toronto-to-Victoria BC flight: takeoff, Rockies, Vancouver, Gulf Islands, landing 2011-07-02
A 5-hour flight condensed into just over an hour, with extended view of interior mountain ranges of southern
British Columbia, such as the
Purcell,
Selkirk,
Okanagan highland, as well as
Kootenay Lake (
Main Arm),
Slocan Lake,
Arrow Lake,
Lake Okanagan, the
City of Kelowna, the Coquihalla highway, the
Fraser Canyon, the
Coast Range, the
City of Vancouver,
Georgia Strait,
Galiano Island, and
Salt Spring Island.
Sections
0:00-13:09: East-Toronto takeoff to
Montana
13:09-end of video: West-eastern British Columbia to
Victoria landing
Time points:
1:24-2:20
Toronto (
YYZ) takeoff westbound on runway 23
2:53
Junction of Highways 407 & 410,
Mississauga
3:00
Highway 407 &
Kennedy Road, Mississauga
3:15 Highway 407 &
Highway 10 (
Hurontario Street), Mississauga
3:27 Highway 407 & McLaughlin
Road, Mississauga
3:40
Mavis Road, Mississauga
4:18
Steeles Avenue, Mississauga
4:45
Queen Street West,
Brampton
5:05
Highway 7 (L);
Williams Parkway (
R)
5:35 entering cloud deck above Mississauga Road &
Mayfield Road
16:02-18:25 Purcell
Range east of Kootenay Lake, BC
17:30-17:35
Riondel BC (centre-bottom; right or east side of Kootenay Lake))
17:38
Kaslo BC (left or west side of Kootenay Lake)
17:45-17:50 north end of Kootenay Lake
17:45 north end of Kootenay Lake BC
18:00-18:27 Purcell Range (east of Kootenay Lake):
Purcell Wilderness Conservancy Provincial Park
18:45-20:45
Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park (
Selkirk Range)
21:15 Slocan BC on the south end of Slocan Lake (with
Highway 6, at top, leaving town to the north)
22:02 Rosebery BC (L);
New Denver BC (
R)
22:10 north end of Slocan Lake
22:15-23:15
Valhalla Provincial Park
24:10-26:20 Arrow Lake BC
24:44
Near top:
Needles BC (left side of lake);
Fauquier BC (right side of lake)
24:50
Edgewood BC
27:01-27:58
Granby Provincial Park
28:15-28:25 Lake Okanagan (L);
Wood Lake (
R)
28:15-28:50 Lake Okanagan
29:15
Kelowna Airport
29:30
Rutland (Kelowna)
30:10 Okanagan
Mission (south
Kelowna)
30:25 downtown
Kelowna BC & Lake Okanagan
Floating Bridge
30:30-30:55
Westbank BC
31:00-32:20 Peachland BC (below); Okanagan Connector highway (above)
34:05-34:10
Coquihalla Highway (
Highway 5)
Exit 238 @
Juliet Creek Road
34:23-34:35 Coquihalla Highway (Highway 5) Exit 231
35:10-35:20
Boston Bar BC
35:30-35:37
Hells Gate (Fraser Canyon)
35:50-36:00
Alexander Bridge
36:00-36:02
Spuzzum BC
36:30-38:30 Coast Range peaks between Fraser Canyon and
Harrison Lake
38:00-40:20 Harrison Lake
40:20 Coast Range peaks between Harrison Lake and Pitt Lake (including
Golden Ears Provincial Park)
42:10-43:10 Pitt Lake
46:59 From above
New Westminster BC, view of
Burnaby Lake at centre-bottom
47:24
Greater Vancouver below broken cloud, with
Stanley Park at centre;
Port Moody BC at centre-right
47:25-49:25 close-up of downtown
Vancouver BC
49:45
Point Grey &
Vancouver International Airport (at right)
50:00-51:48 Georgia Strait
50:15
Bowen Island (centre)
51:48-53:00 Galiano Island and Salt Spring Island
53:40-54:10
Crofton BC
59:10-59:50
Shawnigan Lake
1:00:45-1:02:30
Saanich Inlet