Super, Neighbours in British Columbia: Sonora Resort – part 8 of 8

In this series of posts we've taken you on an adventure to Sonora Resort, a Relais & Châteaux property up in Desolation Sound. In the FIRST post I showed you what it's like to fly there with their sister company, London Air Services, by helicopter. In the SECOND I showed you our room. In the THIRD, some of the activities outside our room. In my FOURTH post I took you to the trout pond and the fish hatchery, then in the FIFTH I took you on an ocean adventure where I ended up catching an 11.5 pound salmon, in the SIXTH on an eco tour and some of the natural beauty of the area and in the SEVENTH we sat down for some incredible meals.

		A couple of years back we took home the Georgia Straight's BEST OF award for "Best Navel Gazing Web Site", and while our non-profit organization that supports our web site (Vancouver Is Awesome, Inc) is focused on celebrating all of the awesome things that make up our city one of those things is it's proximity to other awesome places. In Super, Neighbours in British Columbia we take you on adventures to other B.C. locales that we think you should check out.

In this eighth and final post we're bidding farewell to this remote, luxury resort and making our way back to Vancouver in this helicopter operated by Sonora Resort's sister company, London Air Services. As I previously mentioned, there are two ways to get to Sonora: by water taxi or by helicopter. The obvious preferred choice is by way of the sky because of the convenience as well as getting to see a big chunk of BC from a different angle.

As a born and raised British Columbian seeing the province from the leather seat of an AW139 was like seeing it for the very first time. You're flying at an altitude lower than you're likely used to, at a speed of around 300 kilometres per hour, and you can't not fall in love with that magic out the window.

You also can't help but at first be surprised when you see a fresh clearcut from this angle.

Surprise soon turns to marvel as there are points when you can see forests in various stages of growth and regrowth. In this photo you can see untouched forest, a recent clearcut, a freshly replanted grove as well as other areas that are in different stages of their life cycles. It's incredible to see sustainable forestry practices being modelled here, which will be passed on to the next generation and the next, all relying on the earth and the balance required to maintain modern human life on it.

Here's where some of the logs end up if they're not being towed by tugboat all the way down the coast and then up the Fraser river to be processed. Not sure exactly where this is but it's somewhere along the Sunshine Coast.

I want to leave you with one of my favourite photos I've ever taken with my Canon G11, of some untouched forest spotted on the flight back. You can download a high res 10MB version of it HERE if you'd like to print it out like I'm going to do.

I hope you enjoyed this series on our adventure to Sonora Resort! Big thank you to the resort, London Air Services and Wendy Hartley for allowing us to experience it and share with you.