As we clip on our life jackets and the seaplane’s propellors crank up, the six passengers aboard exchange excited but nervous smiles.
The youthful-looking pilot in the open cockpit taps buttons and pulls a lever as the seaplane hurtles down the bitumen runway outside the remote fishing village of Port Hardy on Vancouver Island.
John KehoeEconomics editorJohn Kehoe is economics editor at Parliament House, Canberra. He writes on economics, politics and business. John was Washington correspondent covering Donald Trump’s first election. He joined the Financial Review in 2008 from Treasury. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jkehoe@afr.com
