Late this afternoon, I got a lucky phone call from my friend who is working for Helijet as a helicopter pilot. He told me that I could get a ride on his helicopter at a super discount price. It was less than $50 for a round trip from Vancouver harbor to Victoria. As the airline is mainly for executive businessmen, the usual ticket price is more than $200 for one way. It was a huge, twelve-seater helicopter excluding two pilots, and had only four passengers including me. Different from the plane take-off, the helicopter took off without a long take-off rolling. It was a strange feeling to climb up almost vertically. Fortunately it was a super fine day today and the window view was great. It take three days to sail from Vancouver to Victoria on my boat, though it took only 35 minutes in the helicopter. I enjoyed walking around Victoria Downtown and flew back to Vancouver after three hours. It was such a great half-day trip that I ran out of the memory of my digital camera.
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