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Tag Archives: Blind Channel Post Office

Looking down from an aircraft to a house and treed island below
Tourism, Transportation

Sightseeing on the Discovery Island Mail Run

March 25, 2022 Roy L Hales

According to Luke, the pilot, there are usually sightseers on board when CorilAir delivers the mail in the Discovery Islands.

A man from Campbell River and his sister-in-law from Ontario were on the plane when it picked me up at Cortes Bay, on Wednesday, March 23rd. Neither of them had made the trip before, and they were busy taking pictures throughout the trip. So was I. Everything looks much different when you are sitting hundreds of feet up in the air!

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