Thanksgiving in Victoria BC. Beautiful Fall weekend, watched the Royal Vancouver Marathon from various coffee shops.
Hotel overlooks The Inner Harbour. Victoria has a dual water runway system and is the busiest float plane harbour in Canada with an average of 175/day (over 63,000 movements annually!).
Floatplanes are a major source of noise pollution but unlike major airports (YVR for example) there is no routine noise measurement and and there are no regulations governing the noisiness of their engines.