Likely from the port window of an early-model Cessna 180 or 185 Skywagon floatplane, judging by the following wing strut and cockpit views, and comparing them to photographs on the internet. Note the apparent absence of the V-strut inside of the cockpit windshield. V-struts were in use in floatplane configuration for extra strengthening.
Looking north, crossing eastbound the lower end of Alberni Inlet, Vancouver Island, B.C.
Looking north, about two-thirds en route between Alberni Inlet and the western end of Cowichan Lake.
Kissinger Lake immediately west of BCFP’s Camp 3 at Nitinat, a few miles west of Cowichan Lake.
Log booms on the south shore at the western end of Cowichan Lake.
BCFP’s Camp 6 mill and townsite at Caycuse on the south shore near the western end of Cowichan Lake.
BCFP’s Youbou townsite on the left and the mill in centre foreground, on the north shore of Cowichan Lake.
Looking south over the Island Highway (Trans-Canada Highway 1), just north of Westholme Road in middleground on the left, the E&N (Esquimalt & Nanaimo) Railway line running diagonally to foreground in the left corner, Mount Prevost in background to the middle right, and Mount Sicker the nearer peak.
Banking left to land in Osborne Bay at BCFP’s (British Columbia Forest Products) Crofton Pulp and Paper Mill, Crofton, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada in early summer 1969.
[1959 Kodak Retina IIIS (Type 027) rangefinder 35-mm roll film camera, s/n 86125, with Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Xenon 50-mm f/1.9 Synchro Compur lens, s/n 6841319; Kodak Plus-X Pan ISO 125/22° 36-exposure black & white negative film]
© Copyright photographs by Uwe Kündrunar Scharnberg, 1969 / Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, March 2011
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